Happy Birthday Mira! 6/4/12

 We celebrated Mira's 4th Birthday at Sulfur Creek Nature Center

 It was our first time there

 When we arrived there were some games out for the kids to play

 Holly likes Mini Golf a lot.

 They also had a ranger who was doing fun face painting

 Holly was a big fan of this and got three done

 She wanted a Rainbow and a Flower on her face

 There was a ton of snacks and food for everyone to eat

 Lots of fruit and yummies all the ingredients for sandwiches too

 Once everyone had arrived it was time for an animal presentation

 All of the kids gathered inside the center

 And the Mommies too

 The first animal is a cute and cuddly bunny rabbit

 Everyone who wanted to got a chance to pet the bunny

 She also hopped around the room

 Next we got to see a chicken

 To make sure the chicken didn't run off she had to stay inside a little pen

 Next we talked about turtles and Mira got to try on a real shell

 It was so big, she makes a cute turtle

 Then we all went outside to see a real turtle

 The kids got to touch his shell

 It was a lot of fun.  Mira picked which animals we all learned about

 When we were inside we got to feed the chicken little worms

 So when we were outside the kids wanted to feed the turtle too

 Mira was the first to decide to give the turtle a Dandylion

 and he really liked it so of course everyone wanted to give him one too

 At this point we have some free time to play more and eat more

 The kids are enjoying being out in nature

 Climbing all over the place

 And showing off to each other, dancing and doing a show

 mommy and daddy take an opportunity to eat too

 Then its time to think about the cake

 There is a toy story theme going on

 so there are characters to be placed on the cake

 Of course each little one had an opinion on where they should go

 Then its time to get in the candles

 The kids are ready for cake and swarming like bees to honey

 Then of course we have to get our pre song family shot

 and of course Mira is being a little goof making faces at all of us with cameras

 Then we started to sing!  Happy Birthday Mira

 She blows her candles... YEAH

 and then she is ready to lick some frosting

 Because isn't that of course the best part of the cake anyway

 Mira decides to keep the bear for herself

 But she is kind enough to share a figure with a few of the friends right around her,

 Everyone enjoyed the yummy cake

 Or at least all of the frosting

 Next we all headed over to the pinata

 Everyone got to take a turn to hit it

 I think we gave them all four shots since Mira is now four.

 We let the littlest kids go first

 Then the Birthday girl

 In the end though none of the kids quite had it in them to get that candy explosion

 I love this look of determination on Holly's face

 In the end I think it was a parent to gave it the final whack

 Here are all of the kids swarming to grab the toys

 Here Holly is putting together a little airplane flyer

 The party was now wrapping up

 But there were a few of us lingering and they decided to go on a little hike

 The kids were ready to hike off in the woods on an adventure of there own

 But we sent the Daddies along to keep them company

They had a fun trip

 At the end there were only a few close families left and we all helped pack up

 Somehow Mira got a hold of a present to open

 This one in fact was from Holly, it was Plex's Keytar

 It looks like a hit.

 I know the party was, the girls had an amazing time.