bike and birthday

Here Elsa is enjoying her favorite present of all. Our good friends (who have 4 girls) had a surplus of bikes, and they gave on to Elsa. We just slimed the tires and put on training wheels, and she was off!! She rode all the way down to their house (7 blocks) to tell them thank you. That was pretty good for her first day on the bicycle instead of the tricycle.

Ya know, I'm just going to post about these pictures in the order they posted. The young women in our ward had a fundraiser to help with the expenses of their camp this summer. we went to the chili dinner on Wednesday night. I had signed up to bring something for the baked goods auction as well. So, in a flurry I threw together these cake bites (left over cupcake mixed with left over frosting, rolled into balls, frozen, dipped in almond bark, topped with melted chocolate chips. I drizzled the bowl with chocolate sauce) and put them on a bowl that Chris made so that it would actually be worth something. I was really proud of my quick thinking with all of my left over ingredients. I just didn't think a ladybug cupcake would do Chris' bowl justice.

Here's Elsa on her birthday morning opening her present from Grandma B.

Here she is that night blowing out her candles. The cake looks much better from this angle.

Here she is passing out her cupcakes to her preschool class. Gibson and I visited and he was so funny to just sit in his little chair and be part of the class.

Oh and here is a (poor quality) video clip of Elsa riding her "new" bike. This was less than 5 minutes after we got it all ready and she got on. She's a natural. She even has the whole pedal backwards to brake thing down already.