The 5th Finale!

After the most birthday celebrations ever, we topped it all of with a crazy exciting day on Meredith's actual 5th birthday. We started off with our tradition of donuts for breakfast!

Yum!

Next up, we headed to Southlake to meet up with our friends, Anna and Joseph, to go to a Safari Park. As an added surprise, Aunt Sandy was able to come too!

Meredith, riding the robot elephant. No matter how hard I tried, Jillian was not interested in taking a turn!
Jillian (and the other kids too) had a blast in the play area with the balls, slide, and the trampoline
Contrary to what this picture shows, the train was a big hit!
Meredith did a little golfing too.
The kids also got to paint little ceramic figures and had so much fun!

After playing hard, we headed to McDonald's for lunch and Anna's special cupcakes for the birthday girl!

So, this should have been enough for a great birthday celebration, but that evening, I had to go to Zoo school orientation, so I had this bright idea that if we were going out there anyway, we should go early and see the zoo. Both girls fell asleep after we left McDonald's, so I drove straight to the zoo, drove around Ft. Worth some, and then hung out in the parking lot until they woke up. When we walked in, it was almost eery - there was NO ONE there. I have never been there when it was like that. As we started to almost pass out from the heat, I started to realize that we were the only people crazy enough to be out at this hour!

Showing off Double Fives
Silly girl on a turtle!
Posing with the froggy - this is when we learned we were being kicked out of the zoo, which happens to close a full hour before the parent meeting. Yipppeee!

So between getting kicked out of the zoo and the meeting, we found a nice Barnes and Noble to play at for a bit. Then after the meeting, we headed to CiCi's pizza for the birthday girl's favorite - spinach pizza! Daddy met us there for pizza and although, we typically love their desserts while we are there, we had one more stop - YoBerry!

Meredith and Daddy cuddling at YoBerry!

Whew - I am exhausted rewriting that and know why I crashed at the same time as the kids that night. But, for this birthday girl, it was worth it!