Kairi's 5th Birthday

I can't believe Kairi is 5! She is so excited to be going to kindergarten in the fall. She loves to learn. She loves to write and color. She loves to "read" books to Camden and Tahlia... she is a pretty good story teller! She also loves to learn at church. She is always telling me things she learned at church and telling me how important it is to live "good". I love her sweet personality. She is always thinking of others. She goes about life with such a positive attitude.

Kairi is the only girl her age that we know so, we decided to go to Idaho and celebrate her birthday with Kahler. They are about 8 days apart on a non leap year. Her birthday was on aTuesday and we wouldn't be going to Idaho for the party for a couple of weeks, so we decided to do a little celebration at home Tuesday night. We went to the grocery store and she picked out donuts to eat for desert. She opened a few presents. She got some new pajamas, a pink Snuggie (she really wanted one), a book and some money. We saved a few more things for the party in Idaho.











The week before we went to Idaho for the birthday party, Kahler was in the hospital with RSV. Mary and I had planned to go bowling and play in a bounce house in Rexburg, but when Kahler got sick we decided to just stay in Idaho Falls. It ended up to be just as much fun! We brought up Disney Bingo and the kids loved playing that. After bingo we broke a pinata that Mary had brought. She put some great candy and prizes in it! We were really lucky that the weather was nice enough to go outside and break it. After the pinata we had homemade pizza. This was a great idea! I love homemade pizza. After pizza we opened presents, sang happy birthday and had cake. Leslie made Kairi the cutest cake ever! Leslie called me about a month before Kairi's birthday and wanted to make the cake. I showed Kairi the cake and after a few minutes of thinking she said yes. Thanks Leslie for helping make her birthday extra special. Kahler had a cute little dump truck full of cake. He really didn't want to much to do with it. Eventually he had some and made a mess. Thanks to everyone who helped with the party! It was great.