Birthday Girl!

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated our big 6 year old's birthday! Wow time is certainly flying. Lyda had some big plans for her birthday starting with going to breakfast, then pedicures, Jamba's, swimming, a trip to the movie theater, and then out to dinner. She had these plans set up for a couple of months beforehand but fortunately decided that a little swimming party at grandma and grandpa's house would be sufficient. So we threw together a spur of the moment birthday party.








Ruby was very sweet and happy to just watch the kids swim. She's been doing funny things with her head lately, this picture captures that perfectly.




This is the only picture that we took of the barbie cake, the back of the cake. Lyda really wanted to have a barbie cake for her birthday this year. I'd never made one before but after watching my friend I decided that it wouldn't be too hard. While the cake was baking Lyda went to check on it. It was bubbling over the bowl, because I put in too much batter, and Lyda came running to me very concerned that it was going to catch on fire. We made a few adjustments and the cake amazingly turned out pretty well.




Lyda had a pretty happy birthday. Her daddy took her on a special dinner date that night. They got dressed up and went to the Landmark to eat. But as special as that was, it was reported that McDonald's may have been the better choice at age 6. I sure love my Lyda and am so grateful she belongs to our little family. Here's to another wonderful year with our beautiful girl.