Eliana's 5th Birthday Party

This past Saturday, we celebrated Eliana's 5th birthday with a swim party at the YMCA. The indoor pool there has windows all around it. It was raining and really cold outside so it was kind of wierd to be swimming while looking out at the bad weather. We had 20 kids there and everyone seemed to have fun!

Unfortunately, we had forgotten Andy's camera and I pulled my camera out of my purse only to have it tell me "Empty Battery" as I was trying to take the first picture. So I'm hoping that one of my friends will be able to send me pictures from it.

We were also sorry that Eliana did not have time to open the presents at the party. We only had 30 minutes in the party room and that time was spent eating cake. We figured the party guests wouldn't want to sit through presents being opened when they could be swimming and there was a limited amount of time to swim also. We did get a picture of her opening each gift once we got home so we plan to put those into the thank you cards. She loved them all and kept saying everything was awesome!

This Thursday is her real birthday so I will be sure to get some pictures from that evening. We saved the gifts from family until that evening when we will just have family time with whatever supper she chooses. We will also have a cake, although I am hoping she changes her mind to a different flavor. We just finished off a strawberry cake from Sarah's birthday not too long ago. I think I will take her to the store so that she can see all of her choices.