The Big Day

We woke up this morning and heard the tall trees and snowy trails calling our names. We stopped for a healthy birthday breakfast of donuts and then hit the trails.

There were quite a few others on the trails this morning. There were lots of snow-shoers (which was funny because they were not needed on this trail! I had mine on to begin with, but I kept tripping over them and ended up taking them off.)

Kayleigh, as usual, enjoyed much of her hike this way.

Kevin and Sydney skied the whole time...

Here are a couple pictures of the girls trying on the birthday crowns their cousins made. Sydney really enjoyed all the pictures and letters from her cousins. She was very excited to open them all this morning. We've been writing letters back and forth each month and it's neat to see the relationships forming across the miles.

One of the few traditions we have in our family is that the birthday girl gets to create and decorate her own cake. Sydney wanted a lion (Aslan from Narnia) and this is what she made.

She really wanted to write the Narnia letters on it, but we didn't have any good frosting tips. Kevin had the brilliant idea to paint the letters on and it worked well. She had so much fun doing this.

We had some Narnia themed decorations in the dining room...

And of course we thought of Yoselin, in the Dominican Republic....one of our Compassion children who was born the exact same day (and year) as Sydney.