Anna Kate's 5th Birthday Party

For Anna Kate's fifth birthday party, we gave her a few options of places to go and she chose Alinos! If you don't know, Alinos is one of our favorite local pizza places and they put on a wonderful birthday party complete with decorating aprons and hats and making mini pizzas! Anna Kate and all of her little friends had a blast!

First, a semi-blurry photo of the birthday girl in her birthday dress made by Gigi next to her birthday balloons! Happy Pizza Pony Party!

Then the kids got to decorate aprons and chef hats so that they could prepare their pizzas!

So cute! Especially this little guy!

Gigi helped Madison get ready to make a pizza... but Madison ultimately decided that eating the already made pizza would be just fine with her!

How cute are these girls!

Ru didn't mind watching Madison while the party went on!

The cutest girls I ever did see!

Not posed. Anna Kate and Avery might like each other, just a little.

Time to make PIZZA!!

Experts.

This guy took the cake on the pizza making. He was the only one (and the only boy in general) to use up ALL of his cups of cheese, sausage, and pepperoni. True pro status.

Yummy!!

Pass the baby Madison!

And it is official! We have a five year old! Thank you to everyone who celebrated our girl from near and far! We love you all!

We ended the night with a couch-full of cuties!

Happy 5th Birthday, Anna Kate!!

A whole hand! They try to tell you how fast it goes, but all of a sudden we blasted through and now we have a five year old ready to go to Kindergarten! Where did the time go? We are so proud of our big girl, who is turning out to be the most kind, sweet, smart, silly little person. Some things about Anna Kate at age five:

-She LOVES her sister (and mom and dad).

-She also loves My Little Ponies and Moana. A lot.

-She started gymnastics this year and loves it.

-She can read simple books and some level one books.

-She loves to practice writing and making lists, and can write her name properly.

-She can swing by herself and is still working on learning to ride a bike.

-She is becoming very independent and helpful, she feeds the dog and makes her bed daily along with other helpful jobs.

-She loves a good knock-knock joke, even if she doesn't get it.

There is so much we could write about our big girl, but here are some pictures taken on her birthday as well as a few from years past to reminisce...

FIVE!