Taylor's second birthday

(August 9th)
My little girl is now 2.  We decided to do her party on the actual day of her birthday this year. In my mind, it just feels more special.  Now that Taylor is 2 and can talk pretty well in my opinion she told us she wanted a princess party, which was great by me, because I didn't have to think of a theme or colors or none of that.  She also told us she wanted to swim when I gave her the options of what type of party she could have.  So we had a swim princess party with pizza, salad, fruit, and cupcakes.  I could tell she felt very special.  The whole day of her birthday I made sure to let her know she was the princess of the day.  I took her out to lunch even before the party that afternoon and told all the waiters it was her day so that everyone would tell my girl "Happy Birthday".  After a while and a week or so after her day she wished everyone happy birthday; it was so adorable.  She still to this day says "It's my Birthday" in her little tiny voice. 

Taylor got a ton of great toys, jammies, shoes, hair bows, and much more.  She loved everything.  Jared and I were undecided what to get her, but a few weeks prior to her party I had seen a pink princess four wheeler at Target and every time I would go back to the store I would make sure it was still there.  So, the night before her party we had to go to Target and we went with that gift.  We also got her some coloring books with stickers inside, she loves that.  It was so crazy to me that we celebrated Kade's birthday at Jared's parents house when he was 2 and I was pregnant with Taylor, so the whole time at her party I had to pinch myself and remember that we were now there to celebrate Taylor's 2nd birthday.  Insane how fast time goes by.  Makes me want to cherish every moment and when I get caught up on nonsense with anything in life I start thinking about all that I am grateful for and all that other junk disappears.  I hope my children will remember to do the same.  We are so grateful that she had everyone around her that loves her very much and that we all love as well. 

Our Sweet Girl!!! Hope being two brings you all the happiness!! 

Taylor's first birthday party

August 13th

 Taylor had her party August 13th and everything turned out great.  I had been planning this party for a couple weeks, but worked really hard on it the 3 days leading up to it.  I got sick within those 3 days which made it very hard, but everything turned out great and no one would have even known I was a sick person planning a party.  Everything looks really simple and you wouldn't know that everything took so much preparation, but it did.  However, she is completely worth it.  I don't know if there will be anymore kids that we have so I was looking at it as my last first birthday party to be planning and my daughters first birthday so I wanted everything to be perfect in my eyes.  I am so thankful for all the great friends and family we have that came and helped celebrate.  We love you all!
I was so caught up in everything I didn't take a picture of the guests that attended or a beautiful picture of the food table.  It looked great with all the yummy food people helped me with though.

Menu included
Chicken Sandwiches
Fruit platters
Chips and Salsa
Cheetos
Lemonade

I had help with the food from Mari and my mom, Megan made the cupcakes and Jessie took the best pictures (you can tell which ones she took).  I am so thankful for all that help and also thankful to Jared for setting it all up.  I had great help and couldn't have done it alone. 
Thank you, Thank you!!!!!

Till next year!