"Tenacious" Twos

On April 10th was Ella's 2 year old Birthday! We had so much fun throwing her a little party and watching her play with her little friends! It was so crazy to be celebrating two whole years of having her in our family...it goes so fast! Ella is such a sweet little girl with such a loving and friendly free-spirit. Everyday she cracks me up with the new things she learns and says. For example if i say "oh I'm so tired." She will say "I tired too Mama." To give an example of her "friendliness" no matter where we go she has absolutely no inhibitions or shyness. She will walk right up to a stranger and have them hold her...especially if they have candy. Chad said it best when he said that she would be the happiest kidnapped child in the world! The night of her birthday it was a bit too cold to go to the park so we took her to the Play Zone at Arctic Circle where a little boy was there playing too and Ella walked right up to him and tried to give him a hug but he in turn tried to run away but our "tenacious" little girl just kept on trying while running after him! She is already a big flirt! She also is a great big sister, whenever Jack is crying she will go up to him and say, " Shhh Jacky it's ok, be happy." She loves going up to him and giving him hugs and saying, "Jacky's my buddy." Our little girl is just amazing and we're so thankful to have her in our family.



The first thing we did for her little party was go outside and play with bubbles, cause who doesn't love bubbles!







Chilling just watching bubbles fly by.







Our happy little girl getting ready for her , "Happy day, Party!" as she called it.



Ella's little friend Ryan Elmer came over for the party and Ella loved having her there.



The next thing we did for the party was an Easter egg hunt!



Ella's other little friend Ashley Anderson came over too and got to participate in the egg hunt. It was so cute to see them scurrying around to get all the eggs. Ella became a little horder as you can see her pile of eggs on the couch! She was all about dumping all of her candy in a big pile on the couch and shoving as many gummy bears as she could into her mouth.



Ryan devouring her spoils with her dad Will.



My dad was down to pick my sister Mallorie up so that she could go home from college for the summer and he was able to stay for the party. Thanks again Dad!



After wards, we had some cake and ice cream and watched the girls get nice and messy!



Ashley looked so dainty eating her cupcake.



And Ella just liked picking off all the frosting!



Jack was having a great old time being held by Nicole Elmer who's soon to be having her own little boy at the end of May.



Here's our little girls colluding together .



Then Ella got to open some presents which by the way she could have been completely happy with just one. After she opened the first one she was done, she ran off to go play with it and could have cared less about the other presents she had. So we ended up opening them over a period of a few days which kept her birthday going for awhile!



After all the birthday hoopla Jackson was out cold!