Happy Birthday to Miley (Part 2)!

Even though we celebrated a lot on Miley's actual birthday, we wanted to have a little get together with our neighbors to celebrate as well.  We have been so blessed to have the most wonderful families as our neighbors.  I truly consider them to be my best friends up here, and I know Miley feels the same way about their kids.

So, on Saturday, we hosted a little get together to have lunch and just to have an excuse to hang out and let kids play together.  I am definitely not my sister when it comes to cakes, so we let Miley pick out a cake at Target...it was actually really cute and just the right size, and she seemed excited enough...

Our friends came over for a lunch of pizza, veggies, and watermelon, and the kids immediately got to playing and the adults for to visiting.  The guys were hooping to play some bocce ball, but that came to a halt when all the kids started interfering, so they were resigned to visiting like the rest of us!

Despite a specific request in the invitation to not bring gifts, all of our neighbors showed up with presents for Miley anyway.  She was so excited to get a new Fancy Nancy book, a Merida doll from "Brave" (kind of perfect, considering that is what we did on her birthday!), and a little Merida doll and a coloring set.  After opening presents, we brought out the cake.  Now for the past two years, Miley has cried when everyone starts singing Happy Birthday to her.  We thought this year she would love being the center of attention and not even think twice about it.  However, she still hid behind dad during the song.  No tears though, so I guess that is progress, right?

After cake, we just let the kids run around and play some more.  Everyone started making their way home at about 2:30 or 3:00...we couldn't believe how fast the time went!  It was such a fun way to spend  Saturday, and we are so glad that we were able to celebrate Miley's birthday with such fun people!