Garrett & Paige Turn FIVE!

It is hard to even fathom, but Garrett and Paige have turned FIVE!  When did that happen?  Here's a little "before and after" for you!

Unfortunately, their birthday party fell right in the middle of Portland's Snowmageddon.  Thankfully, half of the people were friends in our neighborhood that were walking distance away.  Christie's family and another family made it by chaining up their cars.  So there was actually only one family that didn't make it!  So that was amazing!  They couldn't agree on a birthday theme and Garrett insisted that it be Angry Birds.  Paige compromised and said she'd be okay with a "fancy bird" theme.  So we did a little bit of both... a lemon "fancy" bird cake and chocolate Angry Bird cupcakes.

Molly really got into the celebration and wanted to make some fun decorations for her siblings.  I was quite impressed with her creativity!

We had a "bird" themed activity and had the kids paint bird houses.  They all wanted to hang their bird houses outside and we had to convince them that it might be good to wait until things thawed.

We made a simple lunch of grilled hot dogs and sausages.  And then of course it was time to sing Happy Birthday.

And then it was time to open presents and play, play, play.  I was so thankful that a couple families (including their cousins) hung out for a while to play in the house and outside in the snow.  I think Garrett and Paige felt thoroughly loved and Paige announced that it was "the best day EVER"!  That's all I needed to hear!