I may be a week or two late, but I wanted to share with all of you Hazel's 2nd birthday bash with her best bud Sawyer.  Sawyer's mom and I decided to do a joint birthday since our girls were born just days apart (same due date!), and both love Winnie the Pooh.  So we put our creative minds together (haha) and came up with this!  My heart fills with joy looking through these photos - from the lovely weather to our awesome guests, it was a perfectly amazing day.

   

The above sign was actually at the end of our long driveway that meanders through the woods!  Kind of bummed I didn't snap a photo of it in that location.  

   

All of the props in the above photo were for our 'photo booth,' a silly idea I thought at first but we got some memorable shots out of it!

   

   

Because a keg is a necessity for boys in the pacific northwest, even at a 2 year olds party!

   

Hazel actually started crying before we lit the candles as all she could think of was 'eat. cake. now!' Fortunately once the candles were lit, she loved all of us singing (so much that she almost burned her hand grabbing the candle, despite our practice at blowing candles out the day before).

Can you tell my kid doesn't get sugar very often?  This is her first time eating a real cake, as last years cake was more of a banana bread. 

Friends forever!

The only unfortunate part about having a birthday bash in February is illness - of course all six toddlers and three infants that attended came down with RSV about 3-5 days after our party!  A little influenza followed by RSV is no way to spend the first 6 weeks of 2014, I promise you.  Fortunately we are mostly healthy now (mom & dad now have it).  Just getting illness out of the way before the new bundle joins us in 2 short months!