Today my last baby turned 2 years old! It has been an eventful year- I think she has the changed the most this year! She went from a little chubby kind-of baby to a lanky toddler with attitude and a huge vocabulary. We had her party with Grandpa & Grandma Kent, Aunt Erica & Uncle Lenny, and Uncle Derek. (Grana is in Hawaii on vacation and Nana and Papa face-timed her from Michigan!) She was so cute all morning she kept saying "I want to open my presents please!" Luckily her party was at 10:30 so she didn't have to wait long.

Nope- this isn't Mia- it's Tyler frosting her cake with pink icing! What a good daddy :)

The finished product

Her Princess decorations

Ta-da! The kids all had a sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa's so we decorated this morning before picking them up.

Mia was SO excited to see it was decked out Princess-style

Blurry but I had to keep it- you can see how excited she is!

She is reaching for her balloons

Looking at her princess cake and stuff!

With Grandma & Grandpa!

This box is from Nana & Papa- it's bigger than she is!

She loves her bear! The shirt says MiaJolie :)

Here you can really see her shiner (she and Kyson collided while playing 'monster') She is opening Grana's present.

She loves new clothes!

Opening Grandma & Grandpa's

She loves her "goggy" (doggy") She also got a cute outfit and puzzle.

Opening her present from Kaden & Kyson

A princess tent!

The Owens' gave her a cute outfit!

Another big box from mom & dad- I love her feet in this pic.

More clothes!

Fun in the tent

Cute bear, dog and puzzle

She stuck her fingers right in the cake- I think she remember how we tried to get her to smash it last year :) Except then she wanted me to wipe her hand- she wouldn't lick the frosting!

Here she is blowing out the candles- dad had to show her how but she did it!

Pillow fight with Uncle Lenny! Except he didn't have a pillow with which to fight back!

With Aunt "Ca"

 

 

 

 

 

Silly faces with Uncle Derek

Ok so sorry if it seems like I'm on some kind of trendy bandwagon- I have had a couple of friends go red lately-but I have NEVER had red hair and always wanted to try...and since I can't cut it and I'm bored...this was the next best thing! I LOVE it, I may never have normal hair again :) Thanks Holly!

It has been really warm (like 50 instead of 27 degrees!) the last few days and today we finally took advantage of it and went to the park. It was just what the kids needed to release some pent-up energy!

Kaden and Mia racing down the twin slides

Mia was not afraid of anything! She loved every slide. And the static made her hair crazy!

Kaden on the really steep one! I think he was having fun...

'Hi mom! I'm up so high! Look at me!'

Kyson and his sweet smile

Kyson in jail!

Kyson being silly-I think he was a zombie!

We were lucky enough to ring in the new year with some of our favorite and bestest friends! Between us there were 10 kids! They all played great though and we had fun!

We decided to do a fun thing this year and try an Ugly Sweater party with white elephant gifts...here are the mug shots :)

Hennessys wore their Ugly T-Shirts

Parkers

Kents

Hornes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's Kacie with her prize for the UGLIEST sweater :)

We ate some good snacks!

Hornes received the grossest white elephant- TEETH! Which they later traded to Jake because he REALLY wanted them for some reason :)

Hennessys got a lovely raccoon clock

We got Buns AND Abs of steel on VHS and some awesome tunes :)

Here we are at midnight- Elena was our photographer- she made it awake all night!

Here is Brad and Tyler shooting off (il)legal fireworks

It was a great night- thanks everyone who came! Happy New Year! I have a good feeling about 2012!