Lilly's Birthday! (and other things)

We had a pretty great week and had fun celebrating Lilly's birthday!!!  We finished putting up Christmas decorations and I had fun making this Christmas craft.

 This year we decided to get a white tree and put all our bright ornaments on it.  It's our basement tree and I really like how it turned out!

Sophia cracks me up and got this melting snowman kit in her book order.  Don't worry.  It came with a book.

 On Thursday we celebrated Lilly's birthday!!! She could hardly wait and kept counting down the days.  She woke up at 4:00 am ready to open her presents.  Luckily we talked her into going back to sleep for a few more hours.  We had pancakes for breakfast and she opened presents and then took candy canes to hand out at school. 

 After school we frosted her cake (she requested a Lily cake) and had grandparents over for a little party later.

 Of course I didn't take any pictures but Doug's mom did thank goodness.  And I don't know why they're sideways.  

 Sophia gave her a hula hoop which she was really excited about.  It was probable her favorite gift.  They had fun jumping through it later.

On Friday it was our ward Christmas party.  I made these yummy hot chocolate cupcakes for it.  They were pretty good if I do say so myself.  Thank you Bakerella for the recipe.

 On Saturday we went to the aquarium for Lilly's birthday activity.  A few years ago we decided to rotate between friend parties and family activities and she chose this for her activity.  She was the only one who'd been (she went her with class a few weeks ago) and we all had a blast!

 We even ran into Mrs. Claus who gave us candy canes!

 The Journey to South America part was really cool. 

 I liked this little guy.  His tail was so cool!

 And of course we had to try the rope bridge which was pretty fun.

 The sharks were really cool too!!

 Last night we had some friends invite us for a hayride to see the lights around Salem Pond. It was fun and really not too cold despite how this girl looks in the picture. 

 These babies had fun together! It was so funny trying to take a picture of all three of them!!