On Saturday we had Ben's 2nd birthday party! It was his actual birthday so it worked out perfectly! It was the most beautiful day and everything worked out perfectly! I love birthday days and this one was no exception! We started off the day at Our Place for pancakes for Boo Boo's birthday. He loved them of course!! We then went to go get his haircut so he could look tip top for the party! No pics of any of those...:( He is so funny getting his hair cut though...so still and then he giggles so much when they clean up his hair line along the edges. So cute!!
Now on to the party! Below are the SUPER cute party favors! I had farm animal cake pops made and they were delish and oh, so cute! This lady does them in Mansfield if anyone needs cake pops done!
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| Ben's cute cake!! I loved the way it turned out! |
When the petting zoo pulled up, Ben had just gotten up from his nap. He was in a great mood and was SOO excited to see them setting up the barn and fences. I was so happy with the way everything turned out for the petting zoo. We did it through Country Critters Farm and they were so great!
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| Can I go in yet???? |
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| Ben and Pa Pa |
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| Ben and Aunt Kiley |
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| My sweet Addy Tate! |
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| He loved EVERY second of being around the animals! |
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| Petting the cute bunny! |
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| All of his friends at Nessa's house got him this super cool car/truck. He absolutely LOVED it! |
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| The barn set up was great and our yard/driveway area could not have been more perfect for this set up! |
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| Love this pic of Ben hugging the chicken! |
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| Addyson was being SO sweet to her brother all weekend!! |
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| Sweet lil Peyton and Ryan! |
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| Brian and Graham Baughman |
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| Kallie Smith! Getting so big! |
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| Addyson and Emma |
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| Attempted pic of me and my babies! |
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| Feeding the donkey |
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| Chelsea and sweet Logi Bear! Love this little critter! |
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| My sweet sister in laws! |
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| Ben is in LOVE with Logan! It is so sweet- just melts my heart! He loves to pat him on the head! |
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| Bosty Loo! |
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| Sweet Morgan! |
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| Me, Liz and Peyton |
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| Oh man- I could just eat him up! |
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| Must have another baby for the sole reason of wearing Moby wrap!! (Probably not going to happen, but it sounds good!) |
For the food, I wanted to do all of Ben's favorite foods. The kid likes to eat, so we had to narrow it down! Last summer when we went to the Ranger game, Ben LOVED the nachos. So, I ordered some nacho trays online and we did a make your own nacho station. We also had ballpark hot dogs, a fruit bowl (with blueberries, strawberries and kiwi all of Ben's favs!), goldfish crackers and chocolate cake! YUMM! My kind of food!
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| My sweet baby blowing out his candles! |
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| Mmmmm cake! |
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| Ben and Nana! Notice cute chair in back from Logan! Loved that! |
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| He got all kinds of fun toys! THANK YOU to everyone who came to celebrate Ben's birthday! |
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| Dwinell cousins! |
After the party was over we were picking up and noticed that Ben had run over to the food table, gotten the nacho cheese ladle and was going to town!! Mmmmm nacho cheese! It made a big mess, but cute pics! :)
It was such a fun day celebrating our sweet baby boy. It makes me a little sad to think that he is getting so big and really out of the baby stage. He is still my little baby though!! Ryan and I absolutely ADORE him and we love his little personality and all of the funny things he does. We are so beyond blessed to have a girl and a boy and we could not ask for more! It is funny how different they are- boys are definitley more crazy than girls that is for sure! He has 100% entered that 2 year old boy stage and let me tell you- BUSY and CRAZY!!!! We have his 2 year old check up tomorrow, so I'll post his stats after that!
Also, I was a little sad that this will be our last birthday party (for the kids) while living here. :( Of course we will celebrate with family and friends when we are back in town, but it won't be quite the same. Our house is so perfect for parties and having big groups of people over- we will definitley miss that! Oh yea, speaking of the house, we had 3 showings the day of the party and 2 of them during the party. Just another crazy day!! :) Never a dull moment around this casa! Just picture 45 people in and out of the house, kids running everywhere and me showing people room to room. Ha!! It was funny! Good thing- one of the couples really liked the house and we are on their short list, so we'll see!
