Emaline's 2nd Birthday Party

Well, as you can tell from the picture above, Emaline woke up the day of her party knowing something was going down. She was so excited to open that silly "2" candle I thought her head might explode before everyone got to the house. We started the day off with two containers of cherry applesauce, so that could have been why she ran around like a wild woman.

The party was at one o'clock and went off without a hitch. I set up the little bouncy house we borrowed from The Tinkers (thank you Brian & Christine!) and Em went nuts inside it while I cleaned up the backyard and got ready for food. Then we had an absolutely beautiful day for an outdoor party! Everyone ate and drank, the kids played, then Em was about to have a meltdown since she didn't have a nap yet...then we tried to coerce her to open her presents and you would have thought we were asking her to sit in a prison cell for 30 minutes.
Her Mom & Dad got her a sweet indoor/outdoor folding picnic table, Nana & Pepere got her a pretty cool kitchen (she never leaves her room now, she's "cooking"), Grandma & Grandpa got her a Fire Dept. themed Cozy Coupe (unfortunately they didn't have a police car, but that's okay she still gets in it every time we go outside!) and a shopping cart from her Aunts Jennifer and Angie (and family :-). Those were pretty much the big gifts and then she received an array of books, dolls, clothes and Little People toys (thanks Trish & Conor, she loves that castle!).

Finally, she calmed down and liked what she was seeing and thanked everyone for their very generous gifts. Then she was in seventh heaven with her Oswald cupcake...After that, I think everybody was a little tired and started to head out. All in all it was a really great day that we got to spend with family and good friends. Thanks to everyone for coming out to celebrate our little girl getting so big! Here are a couple more pics of the day, including the one of her completely crashing after everyone left. What a busy day! P.S. More pictures to come from Nana's camera :-)