Birthday Weekend.

We had such a fun weekend celebrating Gracie's 4th Birthday. She loved every minute of the celebration and was a little confused about why it wasn't her Birthday anymore when she woke up on Tuesday.

We started the celebrating in Lincoln on Saturday. It was Gramma Lea's Birthday party but she was happy to share the cake and attention with Gracie.

Poor Lauren, she didn't want to have her picture taken and it probably didn't help that Maggie and Gracie
were both laughing hysterically. Maggie is holding Lucy, the youngest Pitlor cousin.

Sunday after church and a little rest, it was time for Gracie's Birthday Party. For a couple of weeks leading up to her Birthday, when I asked her what she wanted all she could come up with was "a party".  All of my cousins happened to be in town on Sunday, so it was a perfect excuse to get together and celebrate. We started the party at the BIG slides downtown and then went to Spaghetti Works for dinner.

The cheering section!

We kind of took over the slides. I labeled all the people in this picture for fun, but it's really hard to see.....several more are missing....Aunt Debbie, Mom, Dennis and all the kids! There was lots of laughter. 

When did they all get big enough to have a kids table??

The balloon lady stopped into the party room and was a hit!

All the cousins with their balloons (except Tucker, he was chasing down the balloon lady to
replace his popped sword!)

We got home pretty late on Sunday night and the partying continued on Monday. She took ice cream to school for her Birthday treats and was excited because they got to sing and eat it outside!

Daddy came to school for lunch. She was SO excited to have him there. He got to sit in a little chair and have his sandwich with all the kids. I'm sure he was a hit!

Elsie sent her flowers for her Birthday. Gracie was really excited about the flowers but she may have been more excited that
the "Flower Bringer Man" had come to the house to deliver them for HER!

Her best friend Lauren called to say Happy Birthday and they chattered on the phone like teenagers :)

Grandma & Pops came to help us celebrate. Gracie requested meatloaf, gravy, mac & cheese, cottage cheese & carrot sticks for dinner and an ice cream cake with Elsa on in for dessert.

 

 

 All in all it was an awesome celebration for a little girl and I think she loved every minute of it!