Assemble the Minions!

For Noah's birthday party with his friends, we rented out a small, local theater and showed Despicable Me 2, followed by pizza and cake --- a superbly fun party!!

Noah's invitation

The theater

Party favors!

Besties

Before the show

Front row (with his buddies soon to join)!

Despicable cake

A full hand

My baby boy is five years old... still hard to believe!  Here are the pics from our FIVE celebration!

Birthday morning!

His real police uniform!

He  L O V E S  it

And real handcuffs

Lego Fire Station!!!

And a Lego Garbage Truck

I'm Five

Daddy, mommy and Maxy got to bring cupcakes and join Noah for his birthday circle at school.  The actual birthday circle was soooo super sweet and touching. We are so lucky!!

Birthday circle time!!

Noah and Ms. Heather - moving from the '4' side of the board to the '5' side!!!

A snack before cupcakes. Notice little bro in the mix!!

And later that day, we went to Baba and Susu's for Noah's birthday dinner celebration!

Making sure Daddy doesn't speed on the way to the party

Lego world

Magic show - updated for a 5 year old!!

F I V E

AZ

The boys and I met some friends (May, and her daughter Camille) in Scottsdale for a long weekend while the dads were out of town.  Despite having a VERY rainy Saturday, everyone had a great time, we LOVED the pool/beach and the hotel was awesome!

We're here!!

The three amigos

The pretty hotel grounds

Pool!

Hands down the best kid pool ever!

Brother love

The kids were in heaven

Noah working on his jumps

Taking a break for strawberry daiquiris

Total Maxy face

My boys

Adorable Camille watching the dancers

Noah and Camille joining in

This was in the lobby. MANY hours spent on it!

One last morning swim on Sunday!