Gracie is 5!

Gracie turned 5 this year and it was a big deal. We went to Disney to celebrate. We had a family party for her on Easter, then went down to the parks a couple of days later. We did two days at Magic Kingdom, which is the girls favorite, and one day at the hotel pools. We were very lucky, we got to ride on all the rides we wanted, we meet all the princesses including Anna and Elsa. We had breakfast at Chef Mickeys and lunch at Cinderella's Castle. We even met with a friend from RI, Uncle John's granddaughter Jackie, and the girls had great fun treasure hunting with her. It was a great trip!

Gracie's FROZEN cake.
I made it, I think considering I didn't have a lot of time to do it, it came out well.

Her birthday morning at Chef Mickey's!
(I think she was a little overwhelmed here, or maybe still asleep)

She is into it now!

Turning 5 at the Happiest Place on Earth, what could be better!

Nice family photo without the birthday girl. She is pictured out already.

Meeting Anna and Elsa from FROZEN. So special for these girls.
We were lucky to have a fast pass, the wait was 4 hours. 

Maddie basically screamed "LET IT GO" at Elsa the whole time.
Maddie was beside herself.

Dumbo! We rode that a bunch of times.

Spring Break

The girls had a good spring break. The SC Aquarium had mermaids come to visit, so we went (along with everyone in a 100 mile radius) to see the mermaids. They were fun, but not quite as good as the mermaids in Denver (who knew you could find mermaids in the middle of the country?)

Our friend Cory was down renting a beach house at Wild Dunes, so we had her over for dinner one night and, surprisingly, her kids love FROZEN too! Other than movies, they had a great time playing together.

Not much happened other than that because we were getting ready for two big trips! Joe took a day off and did some stuff with the girls.

Celebrating mermaids and pirates!

Gracie, Leighton, Bancker, Anna, and Maddie frozen watching FROZEN!

Egg Drop

Gracie and Maddie getting ready for the egg drop contest. Gracie has protected herself, she just doesn't realize she needs a helmet instead.

Anna's completely intact egg.

Anna and her class celebrating the surviving eggs!

Anna had an egg drop contest at school. She did great! Her egg didn't break. Impressively, there were a lot of kids whose eggs didn't break. 

The requirements for the egg drop was that anything the students used had to be biodegradable. The item we used for the egg drop: a grapefruit!