Frozen Fifth Birthday

In the weeks leading up to Ruby's birthday, she would come up and crawl into bed with me so we could "talk about her birthday."  She wanted nothing other than a Frozen themed party.  One day I noticed the frozen water feature in Idaho Falls and knew it would be the perfect backdrop for Elsa.  We had a cold spell, but things started warming up and I knew we needed to act quickly before our opportunity melted away.  We borrowed Sadie's Elsa dress and had a lot of fun.  It was windy and rainy, but we persevered and got some fun shots.

And since we were already in Idaho Falls, I decided that it would be the perfect chance to spend some one on one time with Ruby.  Sometimes she gets pushed to the side in order to satisfy the needs of my more demanding daughter.  We got some gourmet cupcakes at Love At First Bite, checked out the mini-bazaar, perused the toy store, and ate at Chick-Fil-A.

It must have been exciting and tiring because she fell asleep on the way home.

We celebrated with Grandma/Pa Parish and the Stephens on Saturday. . . 

With the Hillman clan on Sunday. . .

Cinnamon rolls from Hard Times on Monday (her actual birthday). . .

And then again with her friends on Wednesday.

We had the girls come dressed up.  We put on pairs of socks and ice-skated around the kitchen to the Frozen soundtrack.  There was a fair amount of drama and pouting on Ruby's part.  I guess after dreaming of her party for months, she had a good idea of how things should play out.  So when everyone didn't cooperate, she got upset.  Birthday-zilla.  

I talked Ruby into being Anna (in large part because all of the Elsa dresses that were on sale were sold out.)  I think Anna is the prettier of the two sisters anyway.

Pin the nose on Olaf.

She was pretty jazzed with the cupcakes that I whipped up.  

I sure love this girl.

She loves to make drawings and crafts for others.  She is a peacemaker, always compromising to keep the peace.  She is stingy with her kisses, especially to her dad.  She is our family sleepy-head.  It's fun to watch her improve in gymnastics and music.  She is working on learning to read and getting bigger muscles.  She loves to flex and show them off.  She is Delsie's hero!