5th Birthday Party

Back in April, our family won a raffle item from Erika's school carnival for a birthday party package at a local indoor water park.  We decided to treat Laurel to the birthday party...since her birthday is in the winter, it would be fun to swim even when it is cold outside.  On her 5th birthday, we took our family, Grandma Parnell, Grandpa and Grandma Hammar, Aunt Sarah, and cousins Ashley and Judah to have fun at Evergreen Wings and Waves water park!  It was amazingly fun for the kids and the adults!  Four bigger water slides, several small slides for the kids, a wave pool, and a tree fort with water slides and spray guns for the kids.  We had so much fun!  Most of us arrived right when the park opened at 10am and practically had the park to ourselves!  Sarah, Matt, and I took advantage of the few people in the water park and went down the adult friendly water slides over and over with virtually no lines.  Erika spent most of her time in the wave pool.  She is really trying hard to become a better swimmer and loved the big pool to practice in.  Laurel was our wild girl and went down the water slides over and over again!  She was just tall enough to ride the faster slides and went down with different combinations of adults with her.  It was so fun to hear her scream the entire way down the slide!  Levi liked the tree fort the best and pulling different ropes that would make water pour down on his head.  After swimming for a couple hours, we dried off and went to the party room where we had pizza, soda and cake.  The room had a boat shaped table/chair combo that was quite cute!  It also had a Wii to play while we ate.  Laurel opened her presents and then we changed back into our suits and continued our fun in the water!  We stayed at the park until 3pm and then went home for birthday hamburgers and Cheetos....the birthday girl's request.  Laurel loved her 5th birthday party!  And, she gets to celebrate one more time this coming weekend with her friends from preschool!