Jessalyn's 2nd Birthday!

Happy 2nd birthday to my little girl! 

 Holy Moly! I can't believe it was two years ago that I went into labor at 2 am on a Saturday morning and gave birth to a gorgeous baby girl 6:30 that evening after almost three hours of pushing. This girl has had a mind of her own since day one. And that silly little mind of hers surprises me everyday. She talks up a storm, she wants to do everything by herself, she is a big girly girl with a little dare devil streak and even though she loves mommy a lot she is a huge daddy's girl. It melts my heart to see how excited she gets when daddy gets home. She says "Dadda home!" as she jumps for joy and doesn't even know what to do with herself with all of her excitement. 

 The night before her birthday, Jordan, Sarah and I stayed up and decorated for her birthday with zebra print and Minnie mouse decorations. She was in awe with how pretty everything looked. And she knew exactly what it was for. She knew it was her birthday and she knew she was two!

 We all went to the mall to browse the American Girl store. What's a better way to spend a girls 2nd birthday than in a doll store with the most beautiful dolls you've ever seen! I'm not sure who had more fun, Jess or us grown up 27 year old girls. We didn't get her a doll because she got a bitty baby last year for her first birthday. I think we are going to wait another year or so to get her a bigger doll. But we got her some accessories for her bitty baby. She needed some snacks and a bib and a bottle of course.She was pretty stoked about her American Girl bag and carried it the whole time. 

 Then she got to ride with Daddy on the merry go round. Notice her holding onto her red bag. Haha. 

 Then it was party time. Her favorite boys came over to celebrate with her. On the menu was "Hot Dog, Hot  Dog, Hot Diggity Dogs" aka Pig in a blanket to go with our Minnie and mickey mouse theme. And what's a party without pizza! Jessalyn's favorite food!

 Then came the cake. Red velvet cupcakes with white cream cheese frosting and red sprinkles. I had to throw the zebra print candles on to the cupcakes because they were too cute to pass up. 

She did a great job blowing out her candles with help from Daddy. 

 And then we got to eat the delicious cupcakes. And share some with Penny apparently!

 Yummy! I think they enjoyed them. 

 And the part she waited very patiently for all day...the presents! Logan was very helpful with opening her presents with her. She preferred the presents that were wrapped. The ones in bags with tissue paper weren't quite as exciting to open.  

 Auntie Sarah got her some pretty awesome stuff. Two of them were her favorite things. Snow White high heels and a Minnie Mouse back pack!

 James and Heather and the boys gave her some beautiful clothes for her Bitty baby and our neighbors got her a cute little Dora doll. Thank you so much everyone! She absolutely loves everything. And so do I!

 She got to play baby dolls with Roro. He's a great little daddy. 

 And we had a to get a few pictures with our guests. 

 Sarah made me laugh because she said I've heard of parties ending with no clothes on but not a toddlers party! Haha! She somehow lost her dress along the way of her crazy partying.