Happy 5th Birthday My Littlest One!!

Do you remember when you turned 5?  Did you have a party?  Was it a big event or a quiet family one?  Or was it both?  I can't remember when I turned 5.  I know I lived in Utah.  I believe I had a birthday party, mainly because there are pictures of it!  I know it was at my house and since I'm a summer birthday, water and swimsuits were involved.  This I know because of the pictures.  

Now days I don't think very many kids have birthday parties at home.  If they do it's pretty rare.  Last year we did two parties at home for Sydney and Noah.  This year is Jacob and Abby's party time.  They are turning 5 and 10.  Pretty big days.  Anyway we asked Abby what she wanted for her birthday and she chose gymnastics.  They do parties almost everywhere these days.  So for $125 Abby and 11 of her friends and family can play in the gym for and hour and then have goodies and open presents for 1/2 an hour.  It was perfect and not expensive.  And just the right amount of time.  I didn't have to entertain anyone and the kids had a blast.  I also didn't have to clean up after either!  Awesome!!!!  We have done some of these kinds of birthday's in the past and I have to say so worth the money and so easy!  That leaves me the question of are we getting lazy?  But that's a question to answer another day....why?  Because this party was a blast!!!

Jacob taking a swing on the rope.

Jacob climbing the rock wall.  Big shock there.  He has loved to climb since he was a little kid.  I would find him climbing the door jams and the pillars in the house.  Which makes it really hard to clean since he'd go to the ceiling.  

Noah sitting on the wall.  Oh wait he's on the trampoline.  

I love this picture of our nephew Jack!  That is pure joy.  He is flying!!

Abby's BFF (best friend forever) Megan, from school.  

Ah there is the birthday girl.  so cute.  

Not sure if she's saying "I'm cool" or "I hurt my butt", either way Abby is hurting her face in the back ground.  Yes those are my daughters.  

Abby's friend's brother.  Yep we had others get in on the action too!

Jack levitating.  He's magic!

Cousin Lucy swinging on the rope.  Looks like fun!!

Megan's turn on the rope!  It'll hold I promise.  

Syd made it to the top of the rope climb.  Good job girly!!

Abby's friend Brynley.  The trampolines were a huge hit!

Megan on the trampoline.  I wish I could still jump.  Now I get a little motion sick.  Getting old isn't fun!  Turning 5 is super fun!! 

Abby rocking the beam.  

Cousins and friends.  

Swinging!

Posing and swinging!  Girls are so different than boys!

Still swinging!  Let someone else have a turn already!

There we go!  Everyone loving the rope. 

Jacob.  Hi Jacob!

Yep there were Hula hoops too.  Maybe some artistic gymnasts?  

Lining up to check out the other side of the gym.  

Noah in the bar pit!  The perfect place for the big guy!

Mom's and dad's got in on the action too.  And little brothers!

Apparently it's never too early to fly! 

Jacob proving he can climb the rope while it's swinging!

Sydney showing her skills at casting.

Coming out of a back hip circle.  Nice job girly! 

Not to be outdone by her sister Abby showing some bar skills. 

Posing, but still super cute.  

The other favorite the foam pit!  

go Jacob!!  He likes to run and see how far to the end he can go.  

Abby's friend Decker!  

Bar pit swinging!

Dave has always called Abby little frog.  Now you know why!

Still climbing things.  Such a monkey.  Abby said she wanted an animal party.  She got one with Jacob.  

Swinging! 

And swinging...there were two ropes. 

They had to try out both.

Syd doing her front flip into the pit.  

Lucy showing some skills on the beam.  She was taking dance but I think there might be some gymnastics talent there. 

Finally some cupcakes.  The sheep cupcakes were the favorites.  So cute.  

Opening presents.  She got so many great things.  She loved everything.  The funniest thing was after we got home.  Dave and I had to run to the store to get food for dinner and we get a call from Noah asking when we will be home.  We can hear talking in the background and ask what's going on.  He tells us that Abby opened both the ferby's she got for her birthday and they were currently talking to each other in "furbish".  Noah couldn't wait for us to get home.  The bad thing about ferbies?  There is no off switch.  They can talk for hours.

It was a fantastic day and everyone had a wonderful time.  I can't believe my baby is 5.  I sure do love her!