Happy Birthday Eliza Grace

We celebrated Eliza's 5th birthday surrounded by great family and wonderful friends.

We had balloons courtesy of Aunt Bonnie:

We had great cakes thanks to the wonderful efforts and talents of Adriana, Matthew, Peter and Dana:

We had beautiful views:

We had some really great food:

We had plenty of dinos:

New friendships were forged:

Young love blossomed:

Notice the death grip Eliza has on Otto :)

We had lots of arts and crafts:

There was a T-Rex Pinata and one brave soul (thank you James) who agreed to hold it on a stick so 30 kids could swing a bat at it:



We made sure everyone got lots of candy:



There was mayhem at the ceremonial blowing-out-of-the-candles:

(notice the "step away from my cake" face)

(Adriana does not need another upper body work out for a while)

We all ate the cakes:



Maybe too much cake:

And did I mention the very generous gifts:

But the most important part of the celebration was the people:






Thank you for helping to celebrate another year in the life of one amazing little girl.