Yvonne's 5th Birthday Party was a fun day. Yvonne's Mainland friends came out to celebrate with a pool party. We started the day with Bingo with pool toy prizes for all the kids. We had a lovely sunny day, so we used the gazebo out in our playground. It is huge and has about 6 big picnic tables undercover. We let the kids play a bit in the playground while we organized food, then we had a classic kid meal of hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, and juice boxes. Yvonne was extremely antsy about waiting to open her presents, so she didn't eat much. After we all finished lunch, her less than patient wait was over. She got a Polly Pocket limosine, a Human Body model and quiz flash cards, a gift certificate to go to the movies and another to go to Chapters. She really went crazy over the limosine and later that evening realized how cool the Human Body model was. You can take it apart and put it back together again. Today, she's wanting to go shopping at Chapters, so we'll go and stop by the library too.
The cake was quite cool. Safeway has a new cake option that allows you to have a cupcake cake. It was 24 cupcakes lined up and smothered with icing and decorations. She picked the 4 Princesses one. Big Surprize!!
Her birthday party ended with about an hour long swim. We had the pool to ourselves, which was great. Mind you, ourselves was 7 kids and 7 adults. We pretty much needed the entire pool to ourselves. The facilities here are great and we're so fortunate to have been able to use them for such a fun day.