Procrastination is my middle name.....

when it comes to blogging lately. Honestly I have been so busy with carpooling (I feel like I am always driving someone, somewhere), birthdays, field trips and well, life! So in no particular order, here is what we have been up to:



February:

We celebrated Peyton's 2nd birthday at Red Mountain Park with our family. If you know me well, you know that I am obsessed with throwing a birthday party every year for every one of my kids. I think it stems from being a December baby and having one or two real birthday parties...everyone was so busy at Christmas time and it just never happened. So every year I plan the parties out about 2 mos in advance. Well every year until this year.

About 5 days before Peyton's party I realized I hadn't planned a thing. So I quickly started putting it together. Luckily it isn't hard when it's a 2 yr old: no games and only family!!

Mike was gone alot that week for Scouts and basketball, so I wasn't able to make the cake until the day of the party. The theme was Elmo. I knew Peyton would LOVE an Elmo cake. I bought the pan, the frosting dye, made the cake and frosting. When it was time to frost, my homeade buttercream frosting wasn't stiff enough so the cake turned out looking EXTREMELY homeade. So please don't laugh, I did my best. It was perfect in Peyton's eyes and that is all that matters, right?!?!

So here are some pics from his party!

Here is my attempt at an Elmo cake:



The men!



Peyton is finally loving the swing! He used to scream and throw a fit if you went near the baby swing, but he loves the big kid swing..who woulda thought??


Here's Mommy and her Birthday Guy!



I didn't get pics of him opening gifts because we filmed it on the camcorder.

He had a blasta ndmade out good. His fave gifts were his little people tractor from Uncle Billy and Aunt Teanne and His Mac Truck (from cars) and lightening McQueen racetrack.