Sunday, November 16, 2008

Mikayla's Two!!

My little baby girl is no longer quite so little or a baby any more. On Saturday she turned the big 2. Mikayla had a great second birthday (yeah!! Redemption!). Her first birthday was...well...we won't go there. I really wanted to make this one special for her. Joel and I got her a tricycle and left it in the living room the night before for her to find when she woke up.

(yes..this is what her hair looks like every morning.)

Then a little later we had her friends come over and we had a big bouncer there for them to play in.

Then they came inside to sing happy birthday to Mikayla (you should have seen her little face light up when she saw that everybody was singing just for her!) as we brought out her "happy cake" (I frosted it to look like a bee...sort of) and the other kids ate cupcakes (decorated as little lady bugs and bees), dirt cake (chocolate pudding with crushed oreo's on top and gummy worms), gold fish, pretzel's and juice boxes.


Then she opened up presents (it was cute to see all the kids gathered around her to "help"). By the end she was soooo tired, but she didn't go to mom...or dad. No she grabbed her blankie and binkie and went to one of her favorite people: her uncle Ryan.



I've always loved birthdays and I hope that I can make each of her's a truly special day!

5 comments:

Colby and Lyndsey said...

Hi Ruth i missed you at church on Sunday i wanted to thank you for making me my cake for my baby shower! It was so cute you did such a good job! and it was delicious! You are the best!:)

Anonymous said...

Her hair is so cute!! Happy Birthday to your little one :)

Liz said...

HOLY FLIPPIN COW! You two are absolutely adorable!!!! Thanks for slippin in that belly picture for me...LOVED IT! Mikayla is so adorable. I can't believe you remotely had the energy to pull this off. Great photos! LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!

Lucinda said...

Ah man! I wish we could've gone to the party - it looks like you had a lot of fun! That trike is awesome; we got the same one for Katelyn. Happy B-day Mikayla!!!

Valerie said...

Don't forget that each birthday has to be better than the last one, so you might want to slow down a bit or sweet sixteen is going to be way over budget!