birthday recap

Here are the pictures from Rebecca's birthday celebrations.

On Memorial Day (the day before her birthday) we headed up to see our nephew march in the parade in my husband's hometown, and then visit his side of the family for a little while. 

Before the parade

During the parade (she read that whole book while waiting for the parade to start....)--these little popper things (on her nose) were passed out during the parade.  For some reason they decided to put them on their noses.

Rachel and Rebecca's cousin, Ashley, who watched most of the parade with us, took good care of Rebecca.

After visiting with family, we surprised the girls by heading to the Great Wolf Lodge, instead of Grandma's house, which is where they thought we were going.  They were thrilled!

Last time we were there Rachel saw other people playing this scavenger hunt type thing called "MagiQuest" where you point a wand at a bunch of stuff and look for clues and so forth.  She wanted to play it in the worst way, but it was super expensive.  This time we bought a Groupon for our room, which included a credit on our account, which we allowed Rachel to use to play MagiQuest.  She loved it, though she became very obsessed about it (as she does about most things she's excited about....she talks about little else while she's in the midst of the obsession).  She's still talking about it and reading the clue book, over a week later.

 

 

After story time that night, Rebecca wanted to meet the character.  Rachel didn't.

We took pictures the next morning while waiting for the pool to open.

Rebecca did a lot of this....longing for the pool and asking, "Is it open NOW????"  That's what happens when little girls wake up at 6:00 AM and pools don't open until 9:00. 

The next day was Rebecca's birthday. We swam for awhile, then left after lunch to head to Grandma's house to celebrate the birthday girl.

(new flip flops....)

 (both girls got new sleeping bags from Daddy so they can go camping....)

I didn't get many pictures of her opening presents.

After the festivities, Grandpa took both girls for rides on the tractor.   I don't know who thought of it, but once one of them did it, they both had to do it....  I'm sure Grandpa loved it!

It was a fun celebration for our big four year old.