The Birthday Girl

My baby is 2! 

It seems like just yesterday I was like this.....                              and you were like this.....

            

Where does the time go? Seriously.

To celebrate her birthday, which was last Saturday, we had a small little party on her birthday. How could we not, when the big day was on a saturday?

 Her mini cake!

 We had pizza, salad and treats

pink zebra cookies, how does one resist making their for a baby girl's birthday? 

 gotta love pinterest for all the ideas ;)

 Blayke was SO happy to have everyone over, she loves playing with everyone. When she sees her cousins, she does this little scream of excitement and runs around the house. Seeing her so happy makes it so fun.

 Her brand new birthday present from grandma and grandpa flake- a red radio flyer tricycle!!!!

 this thing is awesome! I love love that it has the handle so we can push her and steer. We are going to have some fun walks in the future. And best part is, it's therapy approved, both her pt and ot suggested it would be a good gift. Grandpa even put the bell on the left hand side so she has to use that hand to ring it...always thinking!

 Blayke got some cool new presents, we got her some new shoes that she needed anyway and a fun bath toy.

 Grandma made blayke an ivory and pink minky pillow case, it is soo soft. She sleeps right by it every night!

 Showing everyone her pillow. [tanner and lindsay even came down from pocatello and stayed with us for the weekend, we had so much fun staying up late, playing games, and sledding]

 

her own mini cake

 pushing her best little friend on the tric

In our neighborhood/ward there are 6 cute kidlets that all have birthdays within a few months of each other, so we had a combined party for them at our church

[shan-the invite, so cute]!

The birthday cake!

There was even a bounce house! 

All the kids eating cake!

They had a great time!

 

I love you baby cakes, we try not to spoil you too much, but let's face it, we can't help it, you deserve everything and more!

ice skating & sledding

Before christmas we went ice skating in downtown salt lake, it was so cool! There is an outdoor ice rink in the middle of tall buildings, it was like a mini central park in nyc, okay maybe not, but it was so fun!

the girlies :)

Spence had to work, so my mom was my skating buddy! Blayke stayed with grandpa and played with her cousin.

by the end, lindsay and I were pretty much professionals :)

[okay, i was holding onto the wall, hehe ;)]

We played tag while we were there, and crack the whip, haha. It was fun until I was soooo close to tagging tanner, we were both booking it, and ate it on the ice. My toepick [cutting edge anyone?] caught the ice, and i fell flat on my stomach. My right hip and left knee took the fall, and i had the wind knocked out of me. A little blood, [from my hip, it sliced open from the fall], 2 huge bruises, and a painkiller later I was up and playing dance kinect later that night. As for the ice, I was done after that, i'm not going to lie, it hurt!

i think ice skating should be a new tradition, yes??

A couple weeks ago it finally snowed on MLK day. Spence had the day off, so we went sledding at sugarhouse park. The snow, obviously wasn't that great, people had been there all day sledding so it was worn down, but still fun for us.

We finally know how to dress warm, yay us! We're pretty happy about it.

my little peanut butter in her snow gear!

dada and miss b going down the hill

B and mama going down!

uncle mad dawg and blayke going down!

We're excited for more snow [or as Blayke would say, 'no' while pointing to her nose]

Hopefully the sled that the grandkids got for christmas holds up for us big kids ;)