Celebrating Halle...part 1

It was so fun to celebrate Halle's 5th birthday with her...she was so excited for it!  The reason this is "part 1" is because when we go to Bluffton on our spring break in a couple of weeks, we will be having a party with our family down there (and we will also celebrate Daisy's birthday along with Halle's).  But on her actual birthday last week, we did a small celebration up here in Michigan.  And it was lots of fun!

 

On the actual day (March 3), we let Halle choose where to go for supper.  No surprise that she picked McDonald's!  It is their favorite.

 

 

I think these pictures are funny...this first picture is me forcing my daughters to take a NICE picture with me...

But for some reason, "nice" pictures don't come naturally for our family.  I am always on their case to "do a NICE smile!"  Before that picture above, this is what we got for the first picture of the 3 of us...

And here are the men of the family.  I wonder where my kids get it?  Haha :)

And Daisy is at an age of extremely cheesy smiles!  They are such cute smiles, though :)

So the next evening, I baked a cake for Halle and we invited 2 families over for the evening.

These are Halle's 2 best friends here at the school.  On the left is Woo-ah (she is from Korea...her parents are students and they live next door to us.)  On the right is Emilie, and she is from Germany!  Her parents are also students in our class.  We love both of these families so much, and we thought it would be fun if we just invited the families over for Halle's birthday, instead of just the kiddos.

Kaine was very happy with this plan, because he is good friends with Woo-ah's older brother, Urim.  They get along so well!  They spent most of the evening at Kaine's lego table.

And Layla was happy as well!  Emilie has a little sister named Jemima, who is in Layla's class.  They are such good friends.  It is SO cute to see them play together...just adorable.  I LOVE hearing Jemima speak German--she is so cute :)

We planned a very last minute game...kind of like "pin the tail on the donkey" except we called it "Stick the cupcake in Halle's mouth".  We blindfolded the kids...

And they had to try to get the "cupcake" on Halle's mouth.  It was an okay game, for being planned 2 minutes before the party!

Time for the cake...the kids were so excited to eat it!  We all sang to Halle, which embarrassed her...

And then we thought it would be a great opportunity to have Eddi and Julia sing it in German...

And Jae and Enoch sing in Korean!  What a fun, multi-cultural birthday party :)

At the end of the evening, we went looking for Layla and Jemima, and found them in our bed, pretending to sleep :)  They are just adorable!

Such a fun evening!  I will have to show you "Halle's birthday part 2" in a few weeks :)