No Longer "Free"

My baby turned 2 last week.

We made one last "free" trip to see family in Arizona just days before. Pictures to come.

We kept it simple, might as well while they are so young and easy, right?

We started with the traditional birthday donut for breakfast.

And the delicious (I am totally addicted) Papa Murphy's Large $5 favorite half cheese/half pepperoni and tomato pizza for dinner.

After dinner, we had a few families over for cake and ice cream.

My very first attempt at a cake.

The inspiration for the cake came from here. Thanks, Becky! I used her homemade cake and frosting recipes and they were amazing!  I ran out of time or else I would've made alot more dirt to make it a construction hill (like hers) not cliff (like mine). Wal-mart also didn't have any of the trucks I was looking for. Luckily, some friends came to the rescue with the above ones. It wasn't perfect but to Cian, it was awesome so I'll take it. P.S. Chocolate rocks were a hit and SO yummy.

I'm still in shock how much he enjoyed 16 people singing to him.

Loving the attention.

Back longer than I want to admit, for my 22nd birthday, I was over 9 months pregnant with Brycen and my sweet husband thought it would be super brilliant to light my cake with 22 trick candles--(hahaha...not!). As a result, we still stumble across them today in our birthday bag. I thought for sure the two on Cian's cake were normal.

....but they weren't. Big brother insisted he help on the 3 and 4th round of the candles re-lighting. After all said and done, the cake ended up rather moist. Baha!

His gifts included rain boots (he LOVES splashing in puddles) and a "Thomas the train" backpack. Both deals found 2nd hand--a total $3.50.

 A sucker from friends made the day complete.

Birthday boy with his personal birthday trainer. "Now, let me demonstrate how you open gifts..." (does it for him). Oh how I love this age!