2nd Birthday Party

It had been a while since we had had an occasion to get our friends together.  So for the girls Birthday we invited a bunch of friends over!
The girls had a great time, and so did we!

Here are some pictures of the Event!  Emily has the pink bows and Ana the yellow.

Before the guests arrived

The dresses were made by Ben's Mom.  They are so cute!

Decorations!  The girls tried to help us blow up balloons, but they just couldn't do it!  Ben's sister Rosemary helped though! and ended up doing much of the decorating!

The girls and Morgan all playing on the stairs!

The cake!  (and no...I didn't make it.  Costco did!)  I love Costco cakes!

Ben giving his mom some frosting off the knife!! 

Emily...Can I open it now???  This was the gift from Rosemary, and she had put flower petals in the bow.  The girls really thought that was cool!

Lets eat Cake!  They wanted to use forks...Their idea.  Ana

Emily

mmmm this is tasty!

What do you mean this is all I get? 

Emily licking the plate clean

Ana.. "well if this is all I get I am going to make sure I get it all!"

Opening gifts!

What a cool dude!  Or as Emily likes to say.  "dude!"

Mom and Emily

Da and Ana

PUZZLES!

Blocks made by Pop, and coloring books from the girls.

A Pool from the Heffners and all our toys put in it!

toys

Morgan playing with the tea set that Aunt Rosemary got them!

WOW look at all that loot!  We are lucky girls!

Poppi and Da

Playing with the toys

I just loved that they put all the toys in the pool and then got in!

4th of July

Ben took the day off! Yeah!
I was working on making wine glass charms for my friends upcoming bridal shower, so that took longer than I hoped (I am not very good at that sort of thing, so it always takes me a bit longer!)

Once I was done with those, we wanted to make a cool drink and hang outside for a little while. 

It was blistering hot outside, but the girls love to be outdoors.  First we got my Kindle and put on a cartoon, but that didn't last.  So we stripped the girls down and put them in their swim diapers and turned on the sprinklers.   It was not quite as fun as I was hoping! 

Ana was terrified of the sprinklers and Emily only went in when forced.

Ben's Mom stayed the whole week of the girls birthday so we got to spend the fourth with her.   Ben's sister Rosemary came up as well and we had a really good day with the two of them.

We ended the night with Granny reading a bedtime story!

You can take the boy out of the office, but he always is connected!

IKEA treck

The girls and Ann have never been to IKEA, so we all loaded up and headed out!
We stopped first in the cafeteria and got the girls a meal so they wouldnt be grumpy in the store...turns out that kids meals were free that day!  Love surprises like that!
Then we headed into the huge abyss that is known as IKEA.  We had an awesome time.
The girls were entertained by the arrows projected on the floor and we made it a fun game.
Then we stopped off in the kids area for them to play for a bit.  They loved the toddler beds!
Emily is in the green shirt Ana in the pink!  These were Birthday outfits Grandma and Grandpa Ricks gave them!

Emily got up on the bed and under the covers all on her own. lol

This is the first time the girls have ever held hands.  It was so cute I about couldn't stand it!

Happy Second Birthday Emily and Ana!

The girls had a really great Birthday.  Granny and GrandDad came to visit and we went to the library for story time and then came home and opened the gifts that GrandDad and Delorious got for us.
GrandDad then read the book that he gave us!  We also got to try out the rocking horse that Granny brought up for us. 
The rocking horse has a special place in the Scarth Family.  It is the one that David (Bens Dad) rode when he was a little boy. 
Then Ben rode it when he was little and now our girls are getting to ride on it.

It took them about a half a day to start doing crazy stunts on the horse!  But that is a different post!

Here are some pictures of my beautiful 2 year olds!

Emily

Ana

Messing around waiting for breakfast

Yelling hooray!

Ana's first time on the horse  she wanted down!

Emily's first time.  She was about to cry!

At the library after story time in the play area

Emily

Ana

GrandDad!

Happy Birthday to me!

Ben surprised me for my birthday and got a baby sitter!  So he came home from work and said...Lets go!
I had a birthday coupon for the Spaghetti Factory where I got my birthday dinner free, so we went there! Who wouldn't want to take advantage of a free dinner!

They put us in the trolly car and it is usually a cool place to be, but I had one night away from my twin toddlers, and they put us in the trolley car with all the toddlers and babies. 

So it ended up being a pretty terrible dinner.  Not because the food was bad, but because almost every kid in there was screaming and throwing fits! It was enclosed and not a very large space. 

Needless to say Ben and I's night out was not all that and a bag of chips!  But it was very nice to spend a little time with my wonderful husband!
Thank you so much Ben!  It was a wonderful surprise and I love you!

Library time with our friends

Laura and I try to get together about twice a month and we often times meet at the library.  The girls are so close in age that it is tons of fun!  Here is one of the playdates!

They were putting on a puppet show for us! Ana is in purple and Emily in pink.