Ellie's 5!

(We spent a lot of the day making cotton candy for her birthday party which is tomorrow!)

Today is Ellie's 5th birthday. I say this every year with all my kids, but I can't believe she is 5. She has kind of had a long celebration that started on Friday. Friday and Saturday was Ellie's sleepover with my parents. My mom picked her up on Friday afternoon and they stopped at Target and spent about an hour and a half trying to decide what Ellie wanted for her gift. She vacillated back and forth and back and forth between several things. She ended up with baby gear galore. Ellie LOVES, LOVES all things baby, so I wasn't too surprised. She got a baby doll, mini high chair, baby bath, ironing board, and more. She also got some silly bands to share with Hattie. That night they went to Oregano's for dinner and she discovered she likes spinach-artichoke dip. She also loved the pizzookie. Then Ellie surprised us all and actually slept the night at my parents'. In the past, she has had her fun Friday night, then wanted to come home. But this time she spent the night and had a blast. She was pleased with herself the next morning that she had spent the night. She had pop-tarts in the morning, then she got sad that all her sisters would be getting haircuts and she wouldn't get to. She was so sad and just wanted to go home. Bummer! So my parents ended up picking all but Ruby up and going to Rio Vista park to play for a while. They said they had a blast! I'll watch for my mom to update her blog so I can get some pictures.

The celebration continued on Sunday--just with cake and ice cream at home. I had a coupon for a free cake from Bashas, so we had gotten that. Well, Hattie thought she needed to look at it before church and splat, it landed face first onto the floor. I salvaged it as best I could, added some sprinkles on top to cover the mess and that is what we had. Ellie was a good sport about it considering what happened. I felt bad for her though.




Today was her actual birthday, so she started the day with toaster strudels for breakfast. She got to choose what she wanted for lunch and she chose those again. For her birthday, I obliged. She got to open one gift before everyone left for the day. She got "three-er" stroller. Like I said, she LOVES babies and she loves looking on Amazon for different strollers. When she saw a twin stroller, she would call it a "two-er" stroller, so she found this "three-er" (triplet) stroller and that is what we got for her. She's had fun with it so far.



She got to take the treat today for preschool, so she took fruit snacks and Go-gurts. We stopped by Brian's parents' to do the chickens and she got her birthday gift from her grandmother. She got a cute Moxie doll. She has enjoyed playing with that this afternoon. After Brian got home from work, she opened the rest of her gifts from us. She got her own Bubble Tape (I think she was most excited about that gift), a shirt and a crayon tower.


Tonight for family home evening we went out to the desert with a couple families from our ward. It was actually my visiting teachers and families and us. We roasted hot dogs and had some fixings, had a lesson and had s'mores. Ruby had had it about halfway through, but it was fun and the girls really enjoyed it. Mitch brought his machine that made animal noises and tried to scare the kids. They were getting scared, so I quickly told them what it was so it wouldn't ruin the night. It wasn't as bad as what Brian did--we were the first ones out there and in one of the fire pits, there was a mannequin head--like you'd use in beauty school, so he quietly hid it on the seat of their car for their girls to discover when they got in. I guess there was screaming involved when they saw it. I think it was a birthday that Ellie will remember for a long time.

We are so glad Ellie is in our family. She is such a joy and brightens any room she is in. She is very helpful and loves to do what is right. She has a very tender heart and if you give her a cross look, she just might cry. Her favorite shows are the baby ones on TLC or Discovery Health. She also loves watching 19 Kids and Counting. I think she may be a midwife one day or labor and delivery nurse and we think she'll have at least 10 kids! LOL She is facinated by what kind of cars people have and if they have a big car or a big house, they must have a lot of kids. She loves to play with her dolls, carry them around, push them in strollers and so one. She loves preschool and loves to learn. She also loves to serve others and share.

Happy birthday, Ellie!