My Baby Girl

I've been taking a lot of pictures of Anna lately because she just turned 2 and I wanted ONE good picture of her smiling at me, genuinely happy and laughing so I can remember that beautiful face!  I've set up shoots and had Sean help and had my mom help, and she just never cooperated like I wanted.  I got some cute pictures, but not the "one" I have in my head.  She and I were outside today playing in the sandbox filled with brand new sand (thanks to Poppy & Emi!) and I decided to get a couple of pictures because she just looked so dang cute.  And wouldn't you know it, I got the smile!!!!

(Let's not talk about the bright yellow Dickey's cup in the background!  Haha!)

Here are some more from our time outside, just because  :)

And after having such fun together, right about NOW is when she decided the truck she'd been pouring water and sand into needed to be played with inside.  I said 'no', aaaaaaanndddd... cue the meltdown.   

 (pouty face)

It was fun while it lasted  :)

Anna's Birthday Party

We had some family and a few friends over to help celebrate Anna's 2nd birthday.  It was HOT outside so we did a little swimming and eating cake and ice cream.  Nothing against those Winter birthdays (Dex), but Summer birthdays are pretty sweet :)

I did a rainbow cake, so I made some rainbow fruit skewers to go along with that "theme".  Thanks Pinterest!

I had some left-over pieces from the cake and made these cake cups with them.  I may start doing this more often!  So cute!

You might notice a Minnie Mouse theme as you look through these ;)

What are they looking at?!  

Love the dazed looks as they stuff full of sugar ;)

Hamming it up for about 5 seconds!  I never catch this on camera!  

We opened presents throughout the day because she would open one and then run off to play with it and once she seemed to slow down, we'd try to get her to open another.  I think we got everything done right before bed :)

Taking Minnie for a little swing.