Our Big Firefighter Party!

We might have turned 5 yesterday, and had our surprise Disney trip from Mom & Dad, but we still wanted a birthday party!  The "princess" theme was covered in California, so we voted for a "fire" theme at home with our friends.... at Daddy's fire station!

We could not wait for the party - but we had to get ready.  We picked out new shirts, and Aunt Chelsea braided our hair.  We were sooo excited to have braids!

We had a big surprise to start our party.  Right after lunch, Mommy, Daddy and Uncle Tony came to pick us up in Daddy's fire truck! 

We see the truck!!

Thank you, Daddy!

Climbing in...

Kylie's ready to ride!

When we got to the station, it was all decorated for our party -- balloons, streamers, tattoos, and our birthday cakes from Grandma Banana!!  Kylie requested a chocolate cake with red frosting, and Neela requested a strawberry cake with yellow frosting.  (Chocolate cake makes it difficult to frost, so Kylie ended up with white cake... but she didn't care - the frosting is her FAVORITE part of Grandma's cakes!!)

Neela sneaks some frosting!

We could not wait for our friends to get there -- we waited by the front door with Uncle Chuckie to let everyone in.

While everyone was arriving, we colored fire pictures and put on fire tattoos.  Then, we went out to explore the fire trucks and fire gear.  Everyone loved climbing in and out of the trucks, checking out all the gadgets, gauges and gear!

Daddy even let all of our friends try on his uniform!  Of course, we tried it on, too :-)

Kylie

Neela

Brooke

The next big surprise... Daddy and Papa Lollipapa took all of our friends - and us - for rides on the fire truck.

Brooke did NOT like the sirens!!

Finally... it was time!  Time to EAT CAKE! (or... better stated... eat frosting!!)

While everyone finished their cake, we did a little freeze dancing :-)

The last event of the party was the balloon and beach ball drop.  Aunt Angie, Aunt Chelsea and Daddy dropped all of them from the fire station loft.  (It's a good thing Guggisberg's have a lot of hot air... they inflated a lot of balloons and beach balls!!  That includes those who married into the family, too!)

Sometime after the balloon drop - as guests were leaving - Brooke decided she'd had a little too much excitement :-)

We cleaned up, and headed home to do some more celebrating.  We opened a few gifts upstairs...

... while Brooke held court with all the Aunts and Uncles at the party downstairs.  She showed them how to build her rocket ship with the couches (thank you, Aunt Angie).  They all climbed aboard...

...then Brooke consulted her map to show everyone how to get to "Mickey Mars" in the rocket ship.  We never made it there because Brooke had to keep getting "supplies" for the trip.

The highlight at the end of the night was our new "Just Dance Kids" game from Daddy.  We loved playing Brandon's games on New Year's Eve -- now we have our own!

Thank you everyone for the fantastic birthday party!