Bear Turns TWO!!!!

We celebrated Bears birthday early so that Aunt Jen, Uncle Monte and Cousin Michelle could come down and join us. It was a small party but I think she had a good time and that is what is important! Thanks for coming down guys and making it a special weekend for bear!!

Here we sing happy birthday.... but wait till the last second... bear puts out her candle... mom cant believe it and daddy says ohhhhhh!!!!!!

Needless to say after the song she had a little spot on her finger... we all held are breath for a moment and then burst out laughing. I think we were all surprised by her methods... i guess i will know better for next year!

Posing with the pretty cake! We set her presents out christmas style.... cause half of them we couldn't be wrap! She starts playing with her kitchen from Jen, Monte and Michelle right away. She loves it.Daddy helps her try out her new bike. She currently hates it and cries every time we try it... mommy has to be patient... she will get around to it and then i think she will have a good time on it.
Michelle cant wait to get started with the coloring. Aunt Jen tries out the new bike! Bear sits at her new princess table from Uncle Tom and Aunt Connie! Thanks so much, she loves it! She asks to eat every meal here now.
A kiss to Tinkerbell, she was so happy to get her!
After she opened her Tinkerbell coloring books she took them right over to the table and got started!
Daddy is encouraging talking on the phone and driving... another habit to break in a few years!

Tinkerbell Cake

For some reason I decided I needed to make bear a Tinkerbell cake this year. So I got on line and started looking at cake pans. I was thinking of a shaped cake with a million little color coded starts to make a tinker.... well they only had one pan available and it was just her face.... so some girl with a blond ponytail. Then i got it in my head that i should just make up my own idea. Looked online again to get some inspiration and decided on a design.....

Now all i had to do was figure out how to make it. Thank god for the Internet. I watched a few YouTube videos and before you know it i was making flowers. I was way out of my league so i pre-made all the flowers cause that would have taken way to long for me to do on the spot. A million trips to Micheal's, a few books and alot of videos here is what we ended up with!!!

Surprising it was fun and it turned out pretty good.

Aunt Jen took some pics of the process...

Here we go, either it works or not! The good thing to know was if i had just taken an uniced cake and stuck tinker in it bear would have been happy. So the only pressure was just what i put on myself!
Pans pans and more pans of flowers

Birthday Weekend

What is a trip to the Watson Hotel without the walk up to Palisades Waterfall. Some very nice strangers took a pic of all of us so that was nice!

Mommy Daddy and Bear. Aunt Jen was having trouble getting bear to look at the camera!!! But we finally got one.

Monte Jen and Michelle

Concentration tongue!

Saturday night.... They work hard....

We work hard..... on bears bday cake!

Michelle and Monte put together the kitchen.... it was a much bigger project then anyone had imagined! It was good for some father daughter bonding time.. and they both survived so that is good.

Before the party we blew up some balloons to play with.... monte started the shirt stuffing and bear wanted in on the fun. Turns out she loves to pop balloons. who would have guessed!