Madi's 5th Birthday Party

Madi is really into gymnastics right now. She takes classes at Desert Devils and just loves it. We found out that they do birthday parties there and Madi was all over it. She was so excited for her party and for her friends to come and see where she has so much fun. We had her party on a Sunday so there wasn't anybody else around except for our group. The coach that was helping with the party's name was Maddie too...which put a huge grin on Madi's face when she found out.

The kids were able to do everything in the gym....and really I mean everything. There was lots of jumping, stretching, tumbling, bar swinging, rock climbing, bouncing, sliding, balance beaming, ring spinning, obstacle course doing and pit jumping!! I'm sure I missed a few but sheesh it was a blast. I think the adults had as much fun watching all the kids doing their gymnastics and the kids had doing it.

After an hour 1/2 of doing all of the above we went upstairs for cupcakes and presents. I really think that the kiddos ate as fast as they could and helped Madi open her presents quickly so they could go back out on the floor for a few minutes before they left. We really had such a fun time with the friends and family that were there. Thank you everyone for coming and helping make this a very memorable birthday for our princess!

AMAZING JAKES

We have a tradition in our family to let the birthday person choose where they would like to go eat for their birthday. Madi chose Amazing Jakes for her birthday dinner...which shouldn't come as a surprise that she tries to make her birthday celebration last as long as possible (i think she gets it from me). We invited Madi's cousins that live in town since they weren't able to make it to her gymnastics party. They all had such a great time. If you've never been there I highly recommend it as a fun family activity!

They went on every ride they could and ate lots and lots of the self serve ice cream in the little cones that was just the right size. Madi was so excited for the bumper cars that she didn't even mind waiting in line for 45 minutes. It seemed to be worth the wait. She had a perma-smile on her face after. I tried to get a picture while they were going around the track but they were too fast for my camera. If you look at the blurry picture above, Madi and Brady are in the blue bumper car, just about to pass Nana and Bella in the black car.

After hours of fun it was time to go home and of course you couldn't leave without another kid size ice cream cone!!