Hallie's Happy Birthday.

I can't believe it but our little Hallie turned two on Saturday. She is getting so old. She was pretty excited that it was her birthday. Here is a run down of her special day. Sage woke her up on Saturday singing "Happy Birthday" to her. She had a huge grin on her face as Sage sung. Saturday morning Uncle Jeff and Aunt Kim took Sage and Hallie over to the park for a while. They had a great time but Hallie insists on dumping sand over her head so she needed another bath. I got her hosed off and then Hallie, Sage and Gavin spent about an hour running through the sprinklers in the yard while I mowed the lawn. During this time I had brownies cooking in the oven and looked up at the house only to see smoke billowing out the windows and doors. Apparently the brownie batter had dripped over the edge of the pan and was burning in the stove. So those brownies were ruined and the house was smoke filled. I opened all the windows and doors then went and got the kids dried off and down for naps about 2:00. Then I was off running getting ready for Hallie's Birthday BBQ that we had last night. I had to make a new double batch of brownies to replace the burnt ones and makes some other yummy stuff. When the kids woke up I let them lick the beaters from the brownie mix. It was a good thing that Jason wasn't home to see this, he would have dropped over dead to see that kind of mess.




Jason came home about 4:00 and helped me clean up the house and get ready for the BBQ. I decided to throw a BBQ for Hallie's birthday because her favorite thing in the world is to jump on the trampoline and run around with the bigger kids. So she had a really great time. Our friends came over at 6:30 and we had a fun BBQ in honor of Hallie's second birthday.


I made all of Hallie's favorites: hot dogs, hamburgers, macaroni and cheese, watermelon, and guacamole. Our friends brought some other yummy stuff to add to a great dinner. For dessert we had brownie sundaes with caramel, hot fudge, strawberries, bananas, and oreo cookies on it. We put two candles into a piece of brownie for Hallie and sung to her. She did a great job blowing out the candles and got them out on her first try.


Hallie thought the sundaes were fabulous and managed to finish her whole brownie. She was quite pleased by all the attention and just sat in her high chair like the little princess that she is.




After dessert Hallie opened her presents.

Each of our friends brought a little something for her. All of the kids were pretty excited to see what she got, I think that Sage was most excited since she took over most of the gifts as soon as everyone left. Hallie got a Dora sprinkler system, a dora purse and stickers, two cute shirts, a baby doll and stroller, and a giant coloring book.
Our friends went home at 9:00 and Kim D. and I cleaned up for a while. Sage and Hallie colored a page out of her giant coloring book before they went to bed. I think that Hallie had a great day.