Another Birthday season comes to a close

We call it birthday season because mine, Chad, and Ella's birthdays are within 6 weeks of eachother. It makes for a lot of cupcakes in a short period of time!
I decided to document Ella's 5th birthday with some pictures, so here they are!














We woke Ella up singing Happy Birthday and bringing her a cinnamon roll with a candle.
Love that sleepy face!




















Ella all ready for school in her cute new birthday dress that she picked out.
"It's very rock star Mom" is what she told me at the store.




















Ella arriving at pre-school. They had a birthday sign for her up front,
which she thought was great! This is her teacher Ms. Lynn, who is
too wonderful for words!















We promised Ella a birthday surprise when we picked her up from pre-school,
so we took her to a Game Ranch near our house. It was so much fun! There are all sorts of animals just wandering everywhere deer, chickens, chipmunks, and peacocks to name just
a few. They sell you food to feed all of them, the deer just came right up to us wanting carrots and graham crackers, and they stand there and let you pet them!














Ella feeding one of the deer, sporting her new Hannah Montana shirt from Aunt Angela, and new shiny backpack from Grandma Carol and Grandpa Jeff.















Chad, Ella, and Owen posing by the donkey!















Owen being chased by a peacock!















We had no idea what kind of animals would be there, and were quite surprised when we came to the black bears! They were so cute! They are sitting like that waiting for us to feed them!
They also had buffalo, moutain lions, sheep, ponies, owls, fox...etc!















Ella feeding the bunnies!















We then went to Cici's pizza for dinner and to open presents!
Owen got Ella some pj's and underwear and she told me "Mom, Owen giving me underwear is weird!"















Mom and Ella getting ready for bed after a long fun birthday!