Alyssa woke up from her nap the day of her birthday party to the sound of kids arriving to her party.  Let’s just say she was very surprised and excited.  I’m not sure why she didn’t see it coming with all the decorations we put up in the morning! Maybe it’s because she’s 2 years old! :)

She had all of her favorite friends join her for her party.  The girls decorated pink star fairy wands and the boys decorated knight shields.

Her friends and family brought her lots of amazing presents.  She opened them throughout the party at her leisure.  It worked out well that way because she was able to enjoy each present one at a time.  Here she is opening a really cool car from her Grandma Vistercil.

My mom helped her take the cards out and look at them.  She was surprisingly interested in the cards.

Here are just a few pictures of some of her gifts:

Fairy-Princess dress up clothes/accessories…she especially loves the necklace.

Baby doll that she has named and continues to call ‘Baby Evan’

One present had these really cute sunglasses and she couldn't wait to try them on.

It also had a very cute shirt that she insisted she try on right then, which actually worked out perfectly because she had smeared a little bit of chocolate from her cupcake on her orange shirt.

Speaking of Cupcakes.  I made quite a few cupcakes for her party and piped on a letter for each of the kids names.  We had about 10 kids plus parents so it was quite the turnout.

She LOVED blowing out the candles, except we had to sing the song twice to get her to blow out the candles.  I had put 2 candles in her cupcake and the flame was too strong so I took one off and then I confused her so we had to sing again to get her to blow out her candle.  She didn’t eat much of her cupcake, but really enjoyed using the icing to finger paint the tablecloth!  She might be an anti-icing girl when she gets a little older – like her daddy.

She might be an anti-icing girl when she gets a little older – like her daddy.  Her best friend Natalie however had no hesitation to eating her cupcake – so hilarious! :) No Hands!

I think she thoroughly enjoyed her birthday party and we want to thank all of her friends for coming to help make her day very special! 

I made Easter baskets for all of us this year…not sure how long I’ll do that for Luke and me, but it was fun this year.  Especially since my friend Rebeccah sent me some cute stuff to fill mine with and I had been wanting an excuse to buy Luke an itunes gift card. :) 

Our Easter morning was filled with fun church activities of course.  These next few pictures are so cute.  They have been letting Alyssa sit and have “Second Breakfast” with the older kids before Kidz Church and then they send her off to the nursery.  She’s so little sitting with the older kids and they help her eat her food, very cute.  Although she is sometimes VERY sad to leave and cries at the nursery door because I think she gets her feelings hurt that they are ‘sending her away.’

The teacher of this early church class brings an awesome meal every single Sunday and the kids call it “Second Breakfast.”  This week she brought 2 types of egg and sausage muffins, fruit and juice boxes.  She sets up each place setting with a paper towel placemat, plate, fork, etc.  So cute.

They also had an Easter egg hunt after church.  The little kids had their own hunt where they found eggs filled with small crackers and cookies and also rubber duckies.  Once Alyssa realized they were filled with food she just wanted to eat and didn’t want to hunt for more. Here is Luke trying to convince her to find more eggs.  hehe

Alyssa snacked on her treats in the car, took a nap once we got home and missed seeing the deer again! 

Okay I think I need to stop obsessing over the deer. :)

When she woke up we had her basket all ready for her.  She was pretty excited about her “candy” aka fruit gummy snacks.

Evan seemed pretty excited about his (empty) basket too…maybe there will be more exciting things in your basket next year buddy.

Then of course we took some pictures of the two of them in their Easter outfits.

Later that day we went to a friend’s house to celebrate a birthday and they took a picture of our family for us.  It was kinda late at night and it was hard to get the kids to cooperate and smile at their camera, but at least Luke and I look good. :)  hehe

Thanks Hennessy’s and Happy Birthday Tyler!

It was a busy day for us, but we had a great Easter and hope you all did as well.

Happy Easter!