Acadia's birthday - evening

The night of Acadia's birthday, Sissy and Jimmy came over to visit and we dyed Easter eggs. After Sissy and Jimmy left, we ordered Chinese and watched a movie. Then crashed into bed! What a busy day :)

Acadia's birthday parade

Last summer, right after we moved in, I had this idea to do a birthday parade for my neighbor's son, Zach. I asked the Moyer kids (our other neighbors) if they wanted to be in our parade and I got some balloons and we all dressed up, marching along the street with our musical instruments singing happy birthday. This was a WAY bigger hit than I imagined it being, so we have done it for all the neighborhood kids since then, on their birthdays. Well, much to my surprise, our amazing neighbors had a birthday parade for Acadia! Rhonda, our neighbor, called me on Acadia's birthday to ask when we would be home so they could do it. Even though I knew what was coming, I was shocked at how overwhelming it felt to have all these amazing people in our lives marching down our street with their musical instruments and laughter, singing happy birthday to my daughter. It truly made our day!

Acadia's birthday - mid morning

We always go to Oasis Day Spa to get their nails done because they have private rooms and can see 2 people per room. Perfect! Because we certainly don't want to bother the other people at the spa so it's nice to have our privacy. After nails, we took them to Al's then back home to Acadia and Emma could play with all the new toys :)

Acadia's birthday - the morning

I can't help it. I LOVE my children's birthdays!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it. Every year becomes more and more fun, as they can play more and get more excited about the daily events. We have a few traditions for their birthdays - they always wake up to balloons, have ice cream for breakfast, get their nails done and we either have lunch at Beansie's or Al's, depending on the weather. Then we play for a while and they are allowed to choose whatever they want for dinner and we usually watch a movie together. I love traditions in our family and the idea that they may one day pass these traditions onto their children :)

Seeing the decorations

Doing the "birthday march" and signing happy birthday. My family (ie. my mom, sister, grandparents) have a tradition where we line up smallest to tallest and parade out to the birthday person with all their gifts, singing happy birthday. 

A little Kitty to go with the one she got in Disney!

How old are you today??

A Story by Acadia

Once upon a time there was antlers on my head. And then I touched my head and there was antlers, I know there was antlers. I walked silly and I swinged silly and I climbed up on a tree really silly and I felled down.

Then this morning they were all gone.

Then the other day I got more antlers. Maybe I got 25.

The end.