Happy Birthday, Little Missy!

I'm a dork so this is something I put together at the last minute to have printed for Autumn's party...one photo from every month of her second year! We'll have her status update tomorrow after her 2 year checkup. :)

Few more birthday pics

Ryan and Tyler in the bubbles:


Here's Autumn while everyone sang happy birthday. It's funny, she doesn't really like it when a lot of people look at her. Sometimes she's okay but usually she gets really nervous--here she has her head buried and is chewing on my shirt (something else she does when she's embarrassed). A few weeks ago I took her for a dermatologist follow-up for her eczema. The waiting room is set up in a weird way so as soon as you walk in, there are people in a line, sitting there staring at you. Autumn walked in, stopped dead, said "uh-oh," and turned around and walked right back out. And then did the hiding and gnawing thing as I carried her past all the people!


Although she blows bubbles and dandelions, we couldn't get her to blow out her candle. :P


I'm not going to lie--I AM SO HAPPY about this cake!!! I had a blast making it and am really happy I took my cake-decorating friend Mollie's advice and iced it with a plain, white fluffy whipped icing because the reaction to it being cut open was probably one of the best moments of my baking life! Also, in the background you can see the lollipop bouquet I made...that was super fun, too! And the lollipops made great party favors!


Here's a pic of just the lollipop bucket which is also Autumn's Easter bucket. I figured that the bucket would be a good investment and I was right, lol. I also made the labels. Those aren't waterproof but as part of Autumn's birthday gift, I also made her some waterproof labels with her name and that same flower (in bright blue) and font.


I don't have photos of these, but I also made small pails with pinwheels and small swirl pops and all the moms took home pails with flowers...I think you can see one in the corner of the photo of the cut cake. Anyway, back to Autumn. Here she is in an awesome 2nd birthday bib her Aunt Lindsay bought her.


I tell you what, she knows how to open presents! And she loved everything because almost every time she opened a new gift, she was immediately enthralled. Thank you to everyone...I can't get over how amazing our friends and family are. You guys are the best and we are so blessed to have loved ones who know us and our little monkey so well.


Here's one last photo...a baby and her really big lollipop at the end of a hard day of fun:


Oh!! Before I forget...go here! You might recognize a scruffy leetle monkey and her not-as-scruffy cousin!

Autumn's Birthday Party, pt 1

Autumn's birthday isn't until this Thursday but we had a little party for her this afternoon. I'm going to pretend that there's not a stack of gifts and party food waiting to be sorted and organized by posting photos. :) Unfortunately, I didn't get many photos but the ones I did get are kind of fun. Here's Autumn in her birthday girl crown. That didn't last long. :)


Mike's dad got Autumn a little playhouse for her birthday and it was a huge hit with the babies. They were so cute playing house:


The theme of the day was rainbow colors so I put Autumn in this awesome yellow tutu that her Mama Lainey got her a while back. It was totally perfect and looked adorable whenever she leaned out the windows like this.


Right after this pic, Autumn closed the shutters on me.


Here's Mike blowing bubbles for the kids. I think he had more fun than they did with it...


Actually, I think I'm going to post the rest of the photos later but I'll end with a video...no editing but it's pretty great. Mike might have had more fun than the kids with the bubbles, but no one had more fun than Papa D!


Now. To convince Mike that I do, indeed, want to go to bed before 9pm. Haha.