The BIG 6!

Our sweet Alexia just celebrated her 6th birthday.

The days before her birthday were filled with a few fun things.

We went to go see Seussical the Musical!
The kids enjoyed meeting the characters afterwards.

We lucked out with first row seats! Which meant we were the receivers of The Cat in the Hat's mischievous doings. We got wet from spray bottles, and sprayed with silly string. This was Dyl's first intro to silly string. At first, he was a bit freaked out by the slimy, glowing in the dark stuff that was hanging all over his body. But he soon realized it was harmless.

And of course confetti!Lex gathered up as much confetti as she could and brought it home with her to use at her birthday party with her friends.

We also went hiking up Farmington Canyon.

Lexi took the initiative to become our trail blazer. Which meant, off the trail we went. YIKES! Fortunately, she didn't lead us astray for too long.

Alexia wanted to have a Late Night Pajama Party with some friends.

A few of the things that we did were play "Don't Wake Sleeping Beauty", pinned slippers on pajamas, created and whacked a pinata (we used sleep masks for blind folds--love the $ store!), painted our fingernails, and had lots of wild and crazy fun. Phew! I was happy it was a "late night" party and not a sleepover!

Lexi decided that rather than having her friends bring her gifts, she would ask them to bring a gently used toy to donate to a child who "doesn't have that many toys." She had gone to a birthday party a few months ago where they did the same thing and she liked the idea. No complaints here! Brilliant idea!

Can you guess what was first on Lexi's list the morning of her birthday? Get dressed? Comb hair? Nope. None of the above.

Unwrap Gifts!

We ended the day with a silly string war in the dark. What a big mess! But what a fun mess!

We love so many things about our Lexi Lu. One of our birthday family traditions is to write on strips of paper 2 things we love about the birthday person. We put them in balloons, blow them up, and then the birthday person gets to throw darts to pop the balloons to reveal our messages of endearment.

Here are just a few things we love about the birthday girl!
We love-- the way she reads to Dylan, how she hums and sings while she cleans, her pretty blue eyes, how she picks a favorite cd (Mercy River is still a fave--go Brooke!) and then with fancy shoes and a pretty dress on, she dances her little heart out.

We love our Lexi!