The Rays: Haylee's 2nd birthday party!

DISCLAIMER: This is a REALLY LONG post...so if you aren't in the mood for 20 + pictures, come back later.

So we had Haylee's 2nd birthday party on Saturday. We had almost 40 people here and Haylee had a GREAT time! So here it goes....

It was an Elmo themed party because Elmo is basically part of our family. My wonderful friend Renee (who made the tractor cake last year) made an elmo cake for Haylee...she is SO TALENTED!

I also made 4 dozen cupcakes since we were expecting lots of guests.

Here's the brithday girl ready to party!

She was VERY excited to see Harrison arrive at the party. He was glad to be there too, even though it doesn't look that way (he had just got up from a nap!).

Playing in the kiddie pool....

Eating pizza....

This is her face as we sang to her! (Notice the wall of people behind her...they were blocking the wind from the candle flame)

Trying to blow out the candle...

For those of you who weren't at the party, click on this next picture and look really close (at the flame)....you can see my hair starting to light on fire. Yep, that's right....on fire. Buzzy has a better picture of it (while it was ACTUALLY on fire). I'll get that from him. We also have this on film. I was very thankful that I had no "products" in my hair! Whew!

Haylee enjoyed her chocolate cupcake....

Opening gifts....

The tricycle was a HUGE hit! She loves her new bike!!! Thanks, Buzzy & Debbie!

She also loves her Elmo chair....and the talking it does is so fun to hear over and over (sarcasm). Thanks, Nana & Pappy!!!

We put the sand box/water toy together last night and she played with it before bed. She loved it and already figured out how to make mud! Thanks, Bebe & Pawpaw!