Birthday Celebrations

Around our house, birthdays are a pretty big deal! We had 3 different celebrations for Miss Elli and she enjoyed each one! We had a 'Snow White' birthday party with family on January 21st and Elli was so excited about this. We ended up having the party at my parents house for various reasons. Elli loved the party and she still talks about it like it was yesterday.

In her birthday outfit!! Prettiest Snow White, don't you think?

I had to get a picture of the 2 youngest guests...

Elli with her new bike!

The food....

The kids table...

Getting ready to sing 'Happy Birthday'

She loved it when everyone sang. She had a big smile on her face the whole time...

Blowing out the candles

After nap time, Elli and Kensley played outside in the snow...then played with the birthday balloons. I had to post this picture just to remember this hair....

Connor is so excited to be eating peaches after the party!!

Elli had a great time! She loved playing with all her cousins.

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January 26th was Elliana's actual birthday. We started the day by singing 'Happy Birthday' to her in bed and we let her open a card she got in the mail first thing.

She had a special birthday doughnut for breakfast and then opened presents from us.

Trying on her new bag-pack!!

Later that night we took her to Red Robin for dinner! We were all excited for a night out....

We had the waiters and waitresses come and sing to her!! We were cracking up the whole time, as she looked like a deer in headlights!!

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We finished celebrating on Saturday by taking her to 'Beauty and the Beast' in the movie theater. This is sort of the 1st movie she's been to (she went to a movie when she was 6 months old, but slept through most of it). I wanted to take both kids on her actual birthday, but the movie times didn't work out.....I'm so glad because I would have hated for Scott to miss out on this...

The movie was 3D and she sat like this for at least the first 10 minutes....I don't think she moved a muscle or blinked an eye. (Sorry....it is from my phone and I can't figure out how to turn it).

We had quite the celebration and I can't wait to do it again next year!! Thanks to everyone who made it so special for our little 2 year old!!