Kylie turns Five!

Yesterday Kylie turned five! Wow. She was pretty excited when she woke up!

Which is good, because she was pretty bummed when she went to bed because Mike got called out for a fire down by Lander Sunday night. :( Thankfully, though, it was a little fire and he got to come home Monday and be home for all the festivities last night. :)

Sunday night, we made treats for her classmates. Now that she is in school, I wasn't mentally prepared that I had to do treats for her class! She helped make them all though and we had fun doing it. She has 16 kids in her class, so we made 20. Make sure the teachers got some too! Sunday, was another classmates of hers birthday, so they got to have two treats in class on Monday!
I went out and got little sauce-like containers that we filled with some frosting, mixed with sprinkles. Then we put that into a small plastic cup and filled the top with some shortbread-like letter cookies. Then stuck that all in a baggie and tied it off. I saw a version of this with animal crackers on Pinterest, but the shortbread type cookies tasted better with frosting. And what doesn't say third day of school, like letter cookies?!

 

 

Kylie said everyone liked them, so that is good enough for me!

 

After Sidney and I dropped her off at school, we got home and got to work on the Rainbow Cake that Kylie requested. While making it, I really didn't think it was going to be that big.......wrong. a six layer cake will always be big! Make sure you have at least a dozen people coming to the birthday to help eat all the cake! Not just your family of four, one being a toddler! We have lots of cake left. :)

 

But.....it was fun to make and looked fun too!

 

A WHOLE LOT of dirty dishes!

Finally done!

 Frosting all those little swirls on it, was quite a challenge. But I totally won.

 

 

Just before we left to go pick her up from school, I tied a bunch of balloons to the front steps as a little surprise for her when she got home. She was so excited. And loved that I threw a Frozen balloon in there too. 

Balloon Posing!

 

 

She opened tons of presents!!!

Thank you to everyone who sent her something! She loved everything and has played with all of it already! Sidney also loved everything and has appreciated all the new things too! :)

I took soo many pictures of her opening them......here are a few pictures of what she opened before we went out to eat.

I took this picture before Kylie got home, so I could

get a good picture of my rainbow and clouds background. :)

 

 

 

 

On our birthdays we get to pick what we are having for supper. Kylie chose McDonald's. She also really likes to eat out at restaurants, but we typically pick something up and bring it home when we do get something from a fast food place. So, for her birthday, we actually stayed out and ate at McDonald's.

 

 



When we got home, it was more presents and then cake time!

 

Here are lots of pictures! :)

 

 

This picture perfectly captures how they both felt last night, about everything that Kylie got.

I love it!

 

 

 

Cake Fabulousness!

 

Momma, hard at work. :)

Discussing her wonderful day.

 

Being insanely silly.

 

Working hard to put some of her new Lego's together.

Playing :)

Sidney was so mad when we told her she couldn't

play with Kylie's little Lego's.

So I got out the box of Duplo Lego's and she sat at the table and

played too. :)

 

 



Thanks again everyone! You all helped make her fifth birthday absolutely wonderful!
Love & miss you all!

 

 



KINDERGARTEN!!!

Oh my goodness! I can't believe she started kindergarten today!

She was so excited this morning! She practically ran to school this morning as Sidney and I walked her there. She learned where her lunch box goes, where her school supplies went, and where to hang her backpack.

She got to bring a stuffed bear to school today and will get to tell her classmates all about it. She brought in my old tooth fairy bear that I gave her. (it has little pockets you can put your lost tooth in, and the tooth fairy exchanges it out for some money) :)

Sidney was terrified I was going to leave her there, and wouldn't let me put her down. :) She then asked where Kylie was when we were leaving and almost sounded a little sad when I said was going to stay at school today.
But then Sidney stayed extra busy this morning terrorizing the church secretary's office as I learned how to do the bulletins, powerpoints, and newsletters, since our secretary is leaving for a different job and we don't have anyone to replace her yet.
I've had to keep reminding her that we will get Kylie from school later, and she sounds so excited to hear each time that Kylie will come back. :)

Poor daddy is on a big fire south of Worland and had to miss the fun this morning, but I took lots of pictures to share with him......and with you!

Enjoy!

 

 

Zoo Montana and a Water Park

After Mike got home from his detail he went ahead and made reservations for all of us at a hotel in Billings. The hotel had an amazing water park. Two big slides, a wave pool, an activity pool, four little kid slides and a kid climbing/play area. I thought the water park in Rapid City was cool, but this one is much cooler. :)
We had an amazing family night and then the next morning we took the girls to the Zoo. Their zoo is pretty little but it focuses on more native animals. The only non-native ones were the tigers, the red pandas, the Sitka deer and the peacocks. And I imagine some of the reptiles might not have been native....don't quote me on this stuff.
Either way, it was a great zoo! In almost every exhibit the animals were up and about doing things, (and not looking too depressed). :) The only exceptions were that the Sitka deer were no where to be seen, and the lynx was taking a nap in the far far corner.
When we got to the bear exhibit, they started playing and fighting with each other. It was fun to watch.

Here are some pictures from our fun. :)

 

WATERPARK

 



Tried to get a cute pic of us two, but she kept licking her lips

since we were dripping with water!

 

 

 

ZOO

 

Chinchilla!

Looking for the creature!

Western Fence Lizard

Walking stick!

There were a bunch of little statues, that if the girls would have been

more cooperative.....I would have made them pose with all of them.

:)

They also had a beautiful flower garden with a fountain.

This is how you take a stroller up the stairs.....backwards. :)

Pretty white wolf

Red Panda!!! These guys are so freaking cute!

 

Watching the Red Panda's so closely!

 

Ducks!

When we got to the River Otter exhibit, they all got off their little hideout spot and came and swam

back and forth along the glass for us!

They are so cute too!

The girls loved the little show they put on.

The water was kinda murky, so you had to follow their air bubbles and then suddenly

they would be right in front of you.  :)

Staring down the bears

Their exhibit is double fenced, so good photos are hard to come by....

Big horn sheep!

aww, a baby big horn

Kylie, our crazy rock jumper

Bald Eagles

 

Green Aracari

 

Peacock!!

Enjoying an ice cream treat!