Four-tunate Mom: Lydia Alice turns 6!

Sunday, 11/15 - This was after we arrived home from Story City... Lydia had made this 'turkey hunter hat' at school, and that's what she was starting Friday after school, a turkey hunter! She even wore it to Jody's house, while we were at Jody's house but we did manage to get it off of her to sleep ;) This will play into one of her gifts later on... watch and see ;)

Her birthday morning!

That night, Grammy and Papa Jim came over for dinner... and Grammy made this awesome cake!!!

Opening presents...

And then last but not least... King Dad had a gift for Lydia :D

The turkey hunter got her bow!!

She was ridiculously cute!!!

And Grammy is ridiculously talented ;)

Happy birthday to our sweet and funny 6-year-old :D

Mimi & Pap showed up on Wednesday for a quick visit... and we let the girls skip school on Friday! Went to the mall and it started snowing :) just like they said it would...

Girls were ecstatic... but that meant for a really rough drive for Mimi & Pap when they left on Saturday... I obviously did a terrible job taking pictures while they were here! They drove out in the storm to make it to Indianapolis in time for Dad's last Harvest Land dinner/reception where he was recognized for retiring... (Mimi, I'd love to put that in here :)

We split up to cover all the errands faster. Big girls came with me to Barnes & Noble and the little girls went with Mimi & Pap to the mall!

And this is what it looked like when they left!!

They made it! Here was Pap getting recognized by Harvest Land

After they left the girls helped make this happen! Lydia's first friend birthday party :) It was SO NICE to have their help :)

King Dad coaxed LeaAnn to snuggle with him for just a bit... and they were both OUT :)

so sweet...

And then the girls started to arrive!

Lauren & Lindsay made sure this happened :) despite the snow...

And b/c it was a snowy Saturday and 3 of the friends that Lydia invited had big sisters that Lauren & Lindsay wanted to come over... they joined us too! Jordyne, Averiel & McKenna joined in the fun and helped entertain all 11 little girls! Oh yes, and Keira also came along for LeaAnn... we had a house full of girls!!

Aren't they sweet?!?

With the big girls :)

And then for some reason we thought this would be a good idea??? :) Helping them all get dressed and play in the snow...

Was great except it took a LOT to get them all undressed and all 11 pairs of mittens, boots and hats arranged and drying so we could find it all again :)