Look who is 5!

Bria Paige Hansen

(Part 1)

We started the day off with crepes, per Bria's request.
 and decorated her door with streamers and twirlies. When she came out of her room she cracked me up as she seemed scared and didn't know what to do with the new door arrangements.  She quickly became brave and joined the family for the birthday song for our special 5 year old birthday girl.

I love love love birthdays! I have a tradition of giving the day to the birthday girl. She gets to pick everything about the day, what we eat, what we do, no responsibilities and every once in awhile we celebrate with a friend Party.
Bria was invited to a friend's birthday that was held at Jungle Jim's in May and ever since she has said that is where she wants to celebrate her birthday. I knew it would be a pretty penny but  groupon had a sweet deal so  I snatched it up and off we went with a few friends to Jungle Jim's. We had the entire place basically to ourselves as most kids are back in school.  Brynlee and Kale came from Hyrum, Ryli and Sady from the gym and our neighbor Addison joined myself, Ada, and Bria for a rockin good time. We drove bumper cars, safari jeeps, roller coasters, swings, carousels, space ships, and so much more. We played and played until carpool duties called and we had to come home.

When we arrived home, we played some more with everyone listed above except Addison.  For dinner, Bria wanted hamburgers and french fries,(her absolute favorite thing) so we fired up the barbie and dinner was a success. Grandma Hansen came by around 7 for cake and ice cream and Grandma and Grandpa Ellis called to wish Bria a happy birthday. She loved receiving a phone call. She told multiple people she talked on the phone. It brought back memories of when I was in elementary and my dad would call during school and the office would get me out of class to take the call. Oh, what precious memories those were. Side note, sorry!

Aunt Cindy made our bunny cake and with a few strong breaths the candles were blown out successfully. It was a great day and we so appreciated all the support from family and friends to make Bria's day special.

fun family traditions....spanking machine

Something that our family does to celebrate birthdays is to create a spanking machine. The birthday girl crawls through everyone's legs and goes as fast as she can as everyone gives her a spat on the behind. As you can tell from Bria's face she is thoroughly hating this. Love family traditions.