Aleah's 6th Birthday Party, Corona Style!

We had to get creative this year for Aleah's 6th birthday because our state was under a stay-at-home order due to the Corona virus.  We decided to have a "drive-by" birthday parade, and it ended up being so much fun!  About 75 of our family and friends drove by to wish Aleah a Happy Birthday!  They are all the best and made it a really fun day for her!  Pictured above are some awesome balloons we got for the porch from Floral 'n Flair.  

 We set up a little photo backdrop by the garage for kids who stopped by for a goodie bag:

  

  The Catlin Fire Department offered to visit every kid's house who celebrated their birthday in quarantine!  They started the birthday parade!!

 The Rancurets came in a decorated van!

 The Sudlows came by in their golf cart!

The Liggetts drove by on their lawnmower!

 

 The grandparents watched the festivities from the yard:

 Uncle Art & Aunt Letha came from Danville in their new car!

 Aleah got so many fun gifts, I couldn't keep track!

  

 The Hirds came by with some fun gifts:

 The Downings had a decked-out SUV!  It was so fun that Lincoln got to come to the party!  We haven't seen him much during his chemo treatments:

 

 Silly string!  It was hard not to get too close to our families we hadn't seen in weeks!

  

  The Almys came by:

 The Cox family came:

 The Rancuret Rapunzel themed van:

  The Chew crew came by in COLD SHOULDER SHIRTS that spelled Aleah's name because Aleah loves cold shoulder shirts!!!  AND they got her 2 cold shoulder shirts for her gift!

 The Jessup family came (Aleah's Sunday School teachers!):

 The Yelenicks showed up with Frozen on stereo!!!  

 The Bromley family came by:

 The Carder family came by (our other favorite Aleah!):

 A picture "with" Papa Steve!

 The Zindars came on a walk through the woods:

Cheri came by in her Floral 'n Flair van:

Brock, Landry, & Duke Taylor stopped by:

 She got to come inside and open the gifts that people dropped off: 

Hannah made her this picture: 

 Jacob made her a card:

 We had Frozen Cupcakes: 

 

 It was such a great day!  

We felt so blessed and so loved by all of our family and friends.  

They are the very best!

Happy 6th Birthday to our sweet girl!

Lucas' 4th Birthday

Lucas had a good 4th birthday, and little did we know that we were squeezing it in just before the world shut down for months due to the Corona virus!  

Lucas' birthday was on a Sunday, so I went and got a birthday donut for him before church:

Presents from mommy and daddy after church:

Lucas loves bowling, and he said he wanted a salad for his b-day dinner. 
The birthday boy gets what he wants!

He also got ice cream, of course!

The evening of his birthday, we went to see Papa Bob be honored for his retirement from the U of I at an Illini game!  Little did we know that the NCAA was about to shut down.  

Lucas got money in the mail from Grandpa and Grandma Reeves:

On March 10th, Lucas got to celebrate his birthday with his friends at preschool!

He asked me to make Peppa Pig cookies!  He loved them!

On Sunday the 15th, Grandma made Lucas a Mickey cake:

And Papa Ed and Grandma Teresa got him this cute Paw Patrol jacket that he loves to wear:

We had no idea that would be the last day we could be with family indoors for months!  We were supposed to have a joint party for Lucas and Aleah with extended family but that had to be changed.  Lucas did get some "drive by" gift in April too though!

Despite Corona changing some of our plans, Lucas had a great 4th birthday, and I'm glad we got some of the events in before everything changed!