Happy Birthday Sydney!  When she woke up she found a bike downstairs.  A great way to start the day.  Then she had to wait until Daddy got home from work to open the rest of her presents.  It was a LONG wait until 11 am, when Andrew was done teaching.  :)

 Thank you for the ring pop Grandma!  It kept poor Soren occupied.  :)

My beautiful 5-y-old girl!

After lunch and quiet time, we went to the spray park for a party with friends.  Jenna took some pictures for me.  I'll let you decide what's going on in this next pic....

 My cute friends!  Love these ladies!!

 Me with all the kiddos.

Presents!

 This is Melissa.  It was her birthday too.  She works across the street from the spray park and was waiting for some kids to come play so that she could give them water toys.  For her 22nd birthday, she was doing 22 acts of kindness.  Very cool.  We gave her a cupcake and wished her a happy birthday too!  The kids enjoyed the water toys as I forgot all of ours at home!

On to pizza and cake at home.  Here she is pretending to blow out the candles.

Cute Soren still needed to finished getting dressed after the spray park.

At the end of the day Sydney said, "Thank you Mommy for a beautiful birthday."  So I guess she had fun.  She stayed up until 10 playing with all her new toys in her room... :)

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Yesterday was a sad and happy day.  My Grandpa Durfee's funeral was yesterday morning.  I was sad not to be there.  While growing up, I visited with my grandparents nearly every day.  I'd bring them the mail and then chat about school or anything else.  Every Sunday afternoon Grandpa would pop popcorn and we'd eat it while we visited.  They went to every big school event of mine and I have lots of wonderful memories.  He was a great man.

Sydney also turned 5 yesterday.  I love my big girl!  Pictures to follow.