Alyvia Chase is 6 years old!
Livi decided a on mermaid theme this year. We started with her friends party at the Princeville Pool. I was nervous about being responsible for a lot of little girls swimming, but it turned out great! We had a total of 7 girls, including Alyvia and they had lots of fun!
She was excited all. day. long. for her party to begin! Little brother was pretty hyped up too :) Her friends all came and they swam, jumped off the diving board, dove for "buried treasure" (pink coins) and jumped for toss rings!
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| Searching for treasure! |
We took a break to eat cupcakes & ice cream and open presents
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Yummy!!
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| Tana, Mekaya, Alyvia, Paige, Sofie, Lizzie, Alexis |
The girls had lots of fun together and it turned out to be the perfect party! The next day, we headed to Chicago with Nana for what has become Alyvia's annual trip to American Girl :) She always has the doll she wants (or in this case 'dolls') picked out before she goes. Once we get there, she wants to buy the doll immediately. She can hardly look at anything else until the doll is in her possession! This year it was the bitty twins with dark hair.
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| Meet Jack and CiCi-she named them all by herself! You'll notice Coconut their dog too! |
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| We brought Ruthie, her doll from last year, to get her hair done. She told us Ruthie was excited to go back to the store she used to live at :) |
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| And she took her picture with Saige, "girl of the year" |
Such a fun place to visit! We headed to lunch after shopping. Alyvia chose Ed Debevic's. We had never been there and it turned out to be so much fun! Livi got really into the "rude" waitstaff!
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| Nana and Livi, she loves her Nana so much! |
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| Our waitress, Bubbles, dancing! |
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| Livi's birthday dessert. Notice the candle is not lit, Bubbles blew it out and "stole" her wish! She said, "you get free dessert and I get your wish!" Hilarious. |
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| Me and my girl |
We had her family party this weekend. On Saturday, her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins came to our house to celebrate! We continued with the Mermaid theme for her party.
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| My banner-I'm still proud of it, ha! |
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| Sparkly starfish,"mermaid wands" & salt water taffy |
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| Alan created the fishing net light fixure, such a good husband/daddy! |
We ate, visited, the kids played outside and of course we had cake, ice cream and presents! It is unseasonably cool right now, it was only about 70 degrees on July 27th!
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| Birthday girl with Dad & Mom |
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| Kinsley & Alyvia (matching headbands!) |
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| Livi with her new rain boots and umbrella! |
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| Crazy boys! |
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| Singing "Happy Birthday" to Sissy |
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Present time!
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It turned out to be another fun party! Our families spoil our kids rotten, how lucky are these kids to have extended family that loves them so much?! As if that wasn't enough, we went boating at Oak Run today. The men went golfing in the morning, I stayed home with the kids and Alyvia opened her presents from Dad, Mom, Cole and Kendall.
After Kendall's morning nap, we packed up and left for the lake. Did I mention the unseasonably cool weather, it was 68 degrees at 12:30!!
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| Bundled boatin' babe! |
It did get a little warmer when the sun came out from behind the clouds!
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| Birthday girl! |
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| Peek-A-Boo! |
Colson and I braved the water for a little while! Brrrrrrr
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| Anne and Livi braved tubing! |
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| They were really catching some air! |
Even though the weather was less than perfect, it turned out to be a perfect day! Alyvia's birthday weekend was fabulous and I think she had lots of fun! 6 years old?! I just know it will be 16 before I know it :( Livi Chase, you are so special to us. I think my favorite thing about you is how sassy you are. Somedays I am not a fan of the attitude, but I do hope you always have that determination towards everything you try to accomplish. You are a wonderful daughter, sister, granddaughter, neice, cousin and friend. Happy 6th birthday baby girl!
