Happy Birthday, Lydia!

This blog is gonna be a bit overfull of photos, 

but what better way for you to enjoy Lydia's birthday party with us, right? 

We had a treasure hunt with Daniel's family!  

Fortunately his siblings are good at playing along and having fun...

Stops along the treasure hunt included: 

1. Blowing a milk carton boat across the kiddie pool to get the next clue....

2.  Decorating a little cake and then letting Lydia judge which one was "best"

3. Paint up each other with face paint! 

(although some people got a bit bombarded by more than one "decorator")

And some were just really cute like Lydia's cousin here...

There was also an optional hat/mask addition...

Since then, Lydia has asked me several times to go play face painting. :) 

4. See who can make the silliest team picture...

A few more stops on the treasure hunt included digging in the sandbox for buried treasure, finding balloons in the apple tree to blow up and decorate the house, paper airplane flying competition, and pushing each other around in a little go-kart contraption...

All of that was followed by a sweet party and dinner! Farmor did a sweet train cake, Markus slept through half of the party, and we had a fun time....Happy Birthday Lydia!

(This little doctors kit was one of Lydia's favorite gifts...thanks Auntie Linda!)