Two Years Old - The Party

Today was Owen’s birthday party. I guess it’s official now – Owen is two!

I took a lot of pictures during the party and it is too hard for me to pick a handful for the blog, so here is a link to the whole album:

Owen's Second

The party was great. A lot of Owen’s family and friends were there to celebrate with him. We had a face painter who was very eager to start painting faces, but only a couple kids were “into it.” I got my face painted to try and encourage the rest of the guests to follow! The food was yummy (of course it was, Nana made it all!) The kids all had a great time playing with Owen’s train set and new toys. Owen received some great gifts (even though Mom had to open them all because he was having too much fun playing with his friends and didn’t want to stop!) After everyone went home, we really felt fortunate to have such wonderful family and friends. Owen is a lucky boy!

I have to say, I’m very proud of how his choo-choo cake turned out. Owen recognized it immediately as a choo-choo cake and that was all I needed. It was pretty fun to do – I liked the fact that it had so many extra details like the cookie wheels and cookie tracks, ice cream cone funnel and cotton candy steam, pretzel car connectors, and even coconut grass! Not sure if I’m ever going to attempt a cake like this again, but now I can say I once made a cute choo-choo cake!

Just for history sake, here is a list of all the folks who helped Owen celebrate his big day!

• Nana
• Great Aunt Debi and Grace
• Joe and Nancy
• Kelly and Finn
• Katie, Eden, Hunter, Mac, Walter and Grady
• Kari
• Allison, Ryan, Elena and Preston
• Meika, Ross and Anika
• Rebecca and Azzie
• Tracy, Jim, Nic and Adeline