happy birthday amelia joan

Amelia turned five yesterday! We spent the day celebrating our girl with out the distraction of a birthday party. We decided to take both kids to the Great Wolf Lodge instead of birthday parties this year. So far I'm really enjoying the idea but I haven't experienced the two days of screaming kids in a water park yet either.
Saturday morning we surprised the birthday girl with an easel and art supplies and some fun family gifts to open. I made (disgusting) birthday cake batter pancakes (which she loved) for breakfast. Aiden had a friend's birthday party to attend so we dropped him off and Amelia got to enjoy the afternoon with her parents. We started with a yummy lunch at Anthony's and then walked over to the Marine Life Center. Then we headed up to the fish store for some birthday fish (3 albino cherry barbs). After we took the fish to their new home (fish tank) we went to Katie's cupcakes for more sugar. A birthday girl can never have too much sugar!

We finished the day with dinner at (chicken) Red Robin and Amelia had her crunchy brown thing on a stick (corn dog).  A pretty good day for a five year old.