Kelsie Beach Party

This year for Kelsie birthday she wanted a beach party. She began planning this party right after we had Jaron's birthday. Every night at dinner she would add something new to her party, she even drew up plans and making assignments. On her actual birthday we were packing , moving, and cleaning the house. My mom and Serena came down and helped us clean. We had a mini party for her with cupcakes and a couple presents. But we kept telling her that her big party was going to be next week at the beach. She was so excited for this party that she invited everyone in her school class. ( We did another mini party for her classmates since we knew they would not be able to make it to the beach.

In planning her beach birthday party she wanted to have a big picnic at the beach, build sand castles, go swimming, go to a parade, and have ice cream at the Tillamook Cheese Factory.

Here are pictures of the Kelsie sixth birthday beach party, she was happy with how it turned out. We didn't get to do everything she had planned (like swimming in the ocean) but that is okay.

We headed to Tillamook for their Dairy Days Parade. Our little family, Ma2, Pa2, Serena, Randall, Gloria, Ashley, and Ashton were able to make it. It was the first stop for a day.

Here is Party minus Ma2, Pa2, and me.

Before the main parade starts they have a children parade where children can dress up, hand out candy and walk the parade route. It starts right where we are sitting and so as they were waiting for it to begin. Kelsie was flirting with these two boys and they were tossing tons of candy to her, it was really cute.

The parade is the dairy days and so you see a lot of dairy products in it. Here is a float for Tillamook ice cream, they had people handing out little cheeses and coupons for free ice cream.

Of coarse you can have the cheese factory represented without the baby loaf bus. How cool would be to have this as a car. I totally see my little family getting in and going for a ride.

We saw LOTS of horses, but these were the biggest.

Their size reminded me of the horses in Harry Potter series very large.

The lady walking with them said the the horses we 13 hands tall.

Here is the birthday girl, enjoying her day!

Jaron was so excited to see all the John Deere tractors, he was so excited to see his most favorite one a Johnny Popper.

One new I found out at this parade is that Karlee does NOT like clowns.

This one in particular really freaked her out.

We saw floats, this one was in the Rose parade it has the queen of the rose festival on it.

The Royal Rosarians and the walking rose garden.

Super Franz bread man his float was handing out little loafs of bread.

Our kids like to play the game "Slugbug no tag backs", we got a kick out this bug that came through the parade.

At the very end of the parade there was this flat bed of a band. My dad knew one of the band members. That was fun, but another thing that was fun is that the driver parked the truck right there in front of us and the police blocked of the street and for 45 minutes we had a concert. After that we cleaned up and headed over to Rockaway Beach and had a tailgate picnic, before heading to the beach.

Since it was a party we needed a cake, we had cupcakes. We sang Happy Birthday to Kelsie, Pa2 and I, and enjoyed the cupcakes. Notice the ocean in the background.

Kelsie, Beach and a Cupcakes.

Happy Birthday Kelsie!!

We played in the sand, flew Kite, rolled in the sand and enjoyed the sun.

Kelsie is such a pro at flying her kite.

Kelsie, Pa2 and Kallie flying kites.

It was windy so good for flying kites.

Kyle was amazed at how Jaron had got his kite.

(he is in the far left corner)

Karlee was all about getting into the sand, she was trying to bury herself in the sand.

Here Kyle and Dad are trying to get the kite up in the air.

Kyle and the kids getting their feet wet and waiting for the waves to get them.

After we cleaned up from the beach we headed over to Tillamook Cheese Factory and enjoyed us some yummy ice cream. Kelsie and Jaron looking on as their ice cream is getting served.

Enjoying their ice cream. Yum!!

It was a fun birthday party and a great day. The weather was perfect, we came back a little sun kissed too.