Braylen had her 2 year birthday yesterday (Sunday the 19th) and she is SUCH A BIG GIRL! Grant and I couldn't be more proud of her and how she adjust to change and shows us how BIG she is daily! She challenges us daily and we accept with pride, we are so in love with Braylen and she is the BEST thing that happened to us!
A few fun things about Braylen: she loves to have melt downs (throws her self on the floor...can be quite entertaining,) she loves animals....more so DOGGIES, she loves to talk my ear off, she is a complete mini me (when I spray perfume, Bray wants perfume; when I put on chapstick, Bray wants chapstick; anything I do she wants to do too,) she is more of a tom boy than a princess (she loves the outdoors and loves BOYS); Braylen loves to be a mommy to her babies (hoping this tactic will help when Carsen arrives); she is still a cuddler and loves to be held and or loved on; she absolutely loves her daddy; she is obsessed with all the family members but won't leave Hannah's side when she is around; her laugh melts my heart; she is really into Elmo and Barney; she still gets Cheeries (cheerios) and milk every morning; she has small feet; she loves to get dirty; she is my favorite 2 year old in the whole wide world and I LOVE HER MORE THAN SHE WILL EVER KNOW!!!
So onto the BIG Birthday party......
Well since Carsen's arrival is so close to Braylen's birthday date, I wanted to have something low key, at the house, and where we didn't have to feed everyone lunch or dinner! So I decided to throw Braylen an ICE CREAM party.....yay! It started at 3:00 on Sunday afternoon! Grant and I spent most of the day preparing for the party and getting everything ready for Braylen to celebrate with all her friends. Braylen had a special outfit to wear that had a fun Icecream Cone on it...how appropriate.....and she looked very cute in it, might I add. Anyways....so the party begun with everyone arriving, saying hey and socializing. We set up an icecream bar on the inside and all the toppings were outside. So you had a choice of vanilla, chocolate, or swirl in a bowl or a cone (or use both) and then all the yummy toppings outside...which included....SPRINKLES, nuts, cherries, m&m's, butterfinger, oreos, cookie dough, and every flavor of syrup. The kids were in heaven and I think the adults were too....what a nice treat for a HOT Sunday afternoon....and yes it was actually quite toasty. I also provided a few salty snacks to take the edge off of all the sweets.....pretzels, chips, the famous Cheeze Its, and a nut/raisin, m&m snack mix. So everyone helped themselves to icecream and continued to socialize while the kids ran around and played with Braylen's toy or played outside. We hired a BALLOON MAN to come out and do a small balloon show for the kids....he was running late....so we jumped right into Braylen blowing out her birthday cupcake (I made an extra large cupcake so she would have something to blow out.) She loves blowing out candles and singing Happy Birthday....she was a GREAT sport. We then dived right into opening gifts while still waiting on Mr. Balloon Man......while half way through the gift opening, the man arrived....FINALLY...whewwwww....I was getting a little worried. Anyways, he did an excellent job....especially for TWO YEAR OLDS....I couldn't imagine it being any more elaborate or boring.....the kids LOVED it and thought he was really funny, which made it SUPER nice that eveyrone enjoyed it! So once he did his thing, we finished up the gifts and guest either started eating icecream again or collected their partying gift and headed out for the evening. Grant, Braylen, and I agreed that the party was a success and was easy and simple...just what we wanted. We do wish some of her other friends could have made it as well but sometimes things happen and not everyone can come.....it was still nice to have all of our other friends around to enjoy the celebration. Braylen got HOOKED up with the gifts.....she is in heaven and doesn't even know where to begin when she wants to play....! I need to get it all organized for her, but right now.....her toys are EVERYWHERE!
So that is the update on our little girl turning TWO! She is amazing in every single way and we are so excited that we have been able to share TWO amazing years with her. I can't wait to see how she is as a BIG sister. She loves to help out so I hope she will enjoy Carsen and like helping mommy with baby, but we will see! Enjoy the pictures!
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