Nora Kate turned two on Friday, August 14th! On her birthday we celebrated by playing with all her favorite toys at home. Then when John got home from work we gave her birthday presents from us and the boys! She was so excited to walk in the sunroom and find her gifts from us!
She loves her ballgame chair, and now the boys won't be upset with her for wanting to sit in theirs!
Dawson chose to give Nora Kate candy for her birthday. She loved it and it earned him this sweet hug from his sister!
After celebrating Friday night, we woke up to have Nora Kate's birthday party at our house on Saturday morning. Here I am with the party girl right before the party! Love her!
Nora Kate LOVES ice cream and she LOVES going to FroYoz where she can get frozen yogurt and pick her own toppings to mix in. She actually refers to it as "Mr. FroYoz" I think because it's beside Mr. Gatti's haha! Every time we drive by she says, "There's Mr. FroYoz!" Anyway, thinking that August would be really hot and of her love of ice cream we decided to have a sweet ice cream party for our sweet 2 year old.
Even though there was only a 10 percent chance of rain for the day of Nora Kate's party, it was unfortunately raining when her party began so all the guests had to start out inside. Thankfully this didn't last long and we were able to go outside and it wasn't even hot!
Here are some of the party guests!
We were excited for everyone to get to enjoy our new playset. The sand was a hit!
We had the smaller inflatable set up in the backyard.
With all the kids at the party to play with, Dawson, Carter, and Nora Kate ended up wrestling around with each other in this inflatable!
Inflatable fun!
Look at those blonde curls!
mid air!
Here lately we have been letting Dawson have Sprite when it's a special occasion. Dawson saw we had Sprite (ideally for the parents) at Nora Kate's party and was pretty pumped to get Sprite on this special occasion! haha!
And, of course, we had to get a girly bounce for our girly girl! We set this one up on the driveway. The kids loved it!
Getting ready to sing to the birthday girl!
Blowing out the candle!
napkins
This little ice cream cone shooter was the most popular item in the kids goodie bags! They loved these things!
The cake I made for Nora Kate's 2nd birthday.
Strawberry cake with buttercream frosting.
The ice cream cone part is made with brown sugar.
To stick with her love of the mix ins at FroYoz, we had all kids of mix ins and too many flavors of ice cream for the kids to choose between. We also had a big tray of fruit and cheese and crackers and pink goldfish crackers!
I think the party wore our 2 year old out!
Here's a picture where you can see some of the candy in the kids goodie bags.
Here's the invitation for her party. The awkward box on the bottom is just where I covered our address for purposes of posting this invitation on the blog!
I always try to keep a list of all the party attendants from year to year. The friends who attended Nora Kate's 2nd birthday party at our house included: John, me, Dawson, Carter, the Whites (drove from NC!), the Ouarts, the Everetts, the Gibsons, Shanks, Myers, Coppengers, Andersons, Davidsons, Nana and Grandad, Emily Eric and Zoe, Lolly and Pop, Uncle Logan--so I think in all we had 27 adults, 19 kids, and two infants for a total of 48 people!
We are so thankful that we have such wonderful friends who are willing to spend their Saturday morning helping to celebrate our sweet girl turning 2! You all helped make her day special!
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