This year instead of a birthday party with friends Elle decided to have a day of fun where we would load the day up with allll the fun things she wanted to do.
She woke up the Saturday morning of her special day to a little present that she could use during our day of fun.
Sissy got a new purse...
with some cash so we could do some shopping!
All ready to get our day started!
Our first stop was just the two of us. We had reservations at Painting With a Twist!
We were ready to start painting!
This was Elle's first time and she was so excited!
It was a kid friendly painting session so we all started with this outline and filled it in step by step.
My soon to be 6 year old!!
Sissy girl did such an awesome job with her painting!!
We will definitely be coming back to do this again! Hopefully sometime this summer!
After painting she changed and we headed to Von Maur to see the REAL Santa. We got there about 15 minutes after Santa arrived and they shut the line down about 5 people behind and told us the end of the line (which is where we were) wouldn't see Santa until 5pm...it was 11:15 at the time. I told Elle I would happily wait in line with her if she wanted. We could have Eric drop off lunch, watch her iPad. If she wanted to see Santa we could definitely stay.
She picked a quick escalator ride where she waved and yelled "hi Santa!" and then we headed to the indoor pool to do some swimming!
After swimming we went home, got cleaned up then hit Five Below so she could spend some of her money!
Then to her favorite restaurant, Texas Roadhouse.
The yelled and yee-hawed and wished her Happy Birthday.
I don't think I have ever seen her more embarrassed.
Mind you, she wanted us to tell them it was her birthday. :)
The Russells
And my birthday girl!
After dinner we headed to Elle's favorite place for ice cream.
It was the best day celebrating our girl a few days before her birthday!
On Sunday she had indoor soccer and after the game we went for pizza with friends where they surprised her with all her favorite things for her birthday!
These were taken on my last night with a 5 year old little girl.
Why does time go by so fast?
The next morning I woke up with a 6 year old!
