Kassidy's 5th Birthday!!!

That's right...Kassidy is now 5 years old! I cannot believe how fast it has gone and can only imagine how fast the next 5 years will go, especially with her starting Kindergarten in the fall.

The big day started off with breakfast in bed:) Kaleb helped make chocolate chip pancakes and sing to the birthday girl.

Ever since going to her cousin Olivia's Luau party in August, Kassidy has wanted to have her own luau party. And, only girls of course:) We had her party on her birthday since it was a Saturday. All her girlfriends from school came, her cousin Sara, and friends Lily and Erika. The girls had SO much fun together and it was really neat watching them interact with eachother outside of school. You can tell they all really do love each other!

First the girls made grass skirts and leis, then had their fingernails painted, played dolphin ring toss, the "cotton ball" game, did the limbo, played the "M&M" game, had cookie cake and opened presents. Kassidy's friends were all so generous and she got some really great gifts! Some of her favorites were a Barbie pool, Lip gloss, Barbie movie, Belle Barbie doll and horse, a baby cradle, and lots of stickers.

Kathy, Sarah, and Lindsey
Aunt Kelly
Jillian, Julia, Lily, Sara, Kassidy, Carly, and Ali

The famous "cotton ball" game

Amanda's sister, Amanda, Julia

Jillian and Lily

Ali and Kassidy


Carly and Erika

Sara, Lindsey, and Kaleb

Being so goofy!

After dinner Kassidy opened some more gifts from the family. She got 2 really pretty dresses, a cute bathing suit/skirt, a musical jewelry box with a dancing ballerina, Tinkerbell movie, earrings, Barbie and baby doll clothes, Bitty Baby high chair and shape sorting table, Dora tennis racket, and cute jean outfit with pink flip flops. During the day Daddy took her to Toys R Us to spend some b-day money and she picked out a new Art Studio game for her computer. I think she still has a few presents coming in the mail, but needless to say she had a GREAT birthday and was spoiled rotten once again! We just want to thank everyone who brought/sent her a gift and helped make her birthday a special one! She had such a wonderful day:)

We are so proud of the big girl Kassidy is turning into:) She is getting more and more independent each month. She gets most of her breakfast/drink ready in the morning, gets dressed, brushes her teeth, brushes her hair (most of it), gets her shoes/coat/backpack on, buckles herself in the car, helps a lot throughout the day with chores like cleaning her room, sweeping, washing the table, feeding the dogs, the list goes on and on! She loves to help out whenever you will let her:)

Kassidy also has really shown interest this year in writing letters and peoples names, rhyming words together, telling us what starts with a certain letter, counting to 30 by herself, coloring and staying inside the lines, again I could go on. She just loves going to school everyday and this year it's not just for the socialization but for the learning!

Of course we have been struggling with a few attitude problems also. Kassidy has started making faces at us instead of talking back and just loves stomping her foot at us if she doesn't get her way! It's funny how she will say I was making the face to myself to try and get out of trouble. Overall, she is such a blessing to us and we just love watching her grow and mature and become her own person:) She truly is a sweet girl with a big heart...it really shows through with how she treats her brother and friends.