Pinkalicious!

Guess who's SIX!!! Sydney Rae had a birthday on Thursday, March 5th and is officially no longer 5! Oh how I love, LOVE that little girl...and the best part is I know she loves me back because she tells me ALL the time! It's amazing to me how much love you can have for a little person. My life would be -b o r i n g- without her!

Sydney's birthday was a crazy day mixed in with many other crazy days we are having at the office, but we did manage breakfast in bed (courtesy of Kallie because I was already at work), krispie kremes with green sprinkles for the whole class, dinner at Olive Garden with blinking wands & crowns from Corky & Byrleen, cake (of course) and lots of presents. The rest of the night was spent playing a little Wii Fit and a long wait while Corky tried to open Syd's newest 'Ken' doll. Corky needs to come on Christmas morning now that he has a little experience in box ripping and twistie tie undoing...seriously, do they think 'Ken' is going to shift during shipping? Have I mentioned how much we love having Corky & Byrleen here? I know I have, but I think they were meant to be here with us right now so we didn't feel so alone in this new land. Now we are just waiting for Aunt 'K' and her beau Lael to stop in for a visit:)

Fast forward to today...the "PINKALICIOUS" Party! I've lost count how many times we've read this book since Kara P. gave it to us, but I'm pretty sure it's in the hundreds! If you haven't read it, you MUST!

We had pink tablecloths, pink napkins, pink plates, pink cups, pink lemonade, pink stars, pink candy, pink fingernail polish, pink crowns, pink candy and...a CHOCOLATE cake! Go figure! That's what Syd special ordered from Costco (all 9.5 lbs of it, we have enough cake for the entire Smith Family Reunion).

We ate Little Caesars, played 'PINK' Bingo, had a plate of frosting...I mean cake, opened presents, played blue, blue, pink (duck, duck, goose), and then let all the little pink chickies play on the playground.

But the best part of the whole day was (drum roll please) a visit from our very special guests the RIDEOUT FAMILY! YAY! I thought it would be so much fun to surprise my girls and NOT tell them that Sam and Maci were coming to the party. I was SO excited all morning and I couldn't wait to see their reaction when Sam & Maci showed up and the door! And this is how it played out: Kallie & Syd were outside waiting for their guests, Sam & Maci crept up quietly behind them, Kallie & Syd turned around and saw them, blank stares, silence, then Syd said, "Kallie is getting a retainer." Ha! No..."HOLY MACRO, Hooray, Yeehaw, Woo-hoo", nothin' Just, "Kallie is getting a retainer." Not quite the reaction I was hoping for, but we were SO HAPPY they came anyway! (Later Kallie told me they were SO SURPRISED that they couldn't speak :)

Now for the photos...my beautiful 6 year old! (Photo courtesy of Samantha Rideout, more of her work down a little farther)

The inspiration!

The table setting...

The girlies dressed all in pink (L-R: Kaden, Riley, Kelsey, Ariana, Sydney, Maci, Sami, & Kallie)

At our house (thanks to Aunt Kam)...no party is complete without a good game of BINGO (in any variety).

The prizes (notice the bowl Anna :).

Checking out the new loot!

This picture does not do justice to how HUGE this cake really was, come over and I'll give you some :)

The rest of the pictures were taken (on my camera) by this little beauty. One day I plan on taking a photography trip to some exotic land with her. She truly has a talent!

(can't look at this one w/o having a little pain in my heart for all the friends that I miss so much)

Beautiful photo Sam!

This face cracks me up :)

Alright, blog post done...now I have to go clean up the kitchen that looks like a humongous PINKALICIOUS Volcano exploded in it! Fun days! I love you SYDNEY RAE!