Nadia's 2nd Birthday

Nadia's birthday was on Friday and unfortunately Jacob had to work very late that day; which has been happening a lot. I was able to put her down for a late nap but she still only got to spend about a half hour with him. She got a few presents delivered that day. Flowers from the Kizk family (which I found out was a much smaller bouquet than they had ordered.) and a laptop from my sister Monica and her husband Joey. Nadia was so excited to open the door and see that presents came for her! Nadia loves flowers, she walks around our yard and my Dad's smelling the pretty flowers, so she was especially excited when they came. The laptop my sister bought her is a leaptop. You program it with songs and her name, even emails. It is awesome the things that they come up with and how personalized you can make it!

Jacob had the weekend off thankfully so we spent Saturday getting the yard ready with my Dad. I also worked on all of the last minute food and Nadia's cake. If you read my twitter posts, you know that this dang cake was an experience! Not that I had a hard time making it, I had a hard time keeping Jacob and Dax from eating it! I did homemade strawberry and chocolate cakes. Finally all of the cakes were made and I moved on to the fondant. It was much easier for me to work with it this year after having some experience from last year. I really didn't have any kind of plan for the design though. I wish I would've spent more time figuring that out, but I just winged it last minute. Jacob and I stayed up late doing all of the little details.

We were so pleasantly surprised with how many guests we had for Nadia's birthday party. We must have had 25+ people at our house. It was a very special day and we are so thankful for everyone that came to celebrate!

We rented a princess bounce house for the backyard along with a bubble maker and sno cone machine. It was 103 out, it doesn't matter how used to the heat you get that is hot! We had misters going and shades up which helped some. The kids had so much fun, I was happy that Nadia had some children to play with. We had a few friends over with their babies and Nadia kept asking where Elai was. It is amazing that she can remember her little cousin who was out about a month ago! After cake and presents everyone started filtering out. A few of our good friends hung around and we were able to visit. Nadia had a great day not to mention all of the presents she got!