Happy 2nd Birthday, Poppy and Olive!

Happy Birthday to our children!  Seriously?  Two years?  I still don't believe it, even though it is true.  It has been the most difficult, most challenging, and most satisfying 2 years.  Here is a monthly recap of Poppy and Olive's 2nd year.

13 Months Old

Olive is in pink, and Poppy is in yellow.  Look how pudgy they are!

14 Months Old

Olive and Poppy in their favorite tree

15 Months Old

Poppy with a fake goose

Olive with fake birds on a clothesline

16 Months Old

Poppy and Olive eating a sticky snack

17 Months Old

Olive decorating the tree

Poppy decorating the tree

18 Months Old

Olive taking a break from unwrapping a gift

Poppy just unwrapped a gift

19 Months Old

Olive on the couch

Poppy falling asleep

20 Months Old

Olive and Poppy in the playhouse with Uncle Jim

21 Months Old

Olive reunited with our old dog, Penelope

Poppy stating her opinion

22 Months Old

Olive and Poppy playing

23 Months Old

Poppy and Olive returning from the jungle

2 Years Old (Minus 3 days)

Poppy, Jill, me, and Olive about to dig into birthday cake

Birthday Party!

Tomorrow is the girls 2nd birthday if you can believe it!  We had a party on Saturday, and it was a blast!  It was a farm theme, complete with petting zoo.  Everyone asked me how many sets of twins there were, and there were 6 plus our girls.  Anyway, here is some pre-party silliness!

Mom-mom Diane

Olive with her cowgirl boots.

Poppy, who had a rough morning, would not keep her boots on!

Jill's ready with her cow earrings.

The Set-up

Famous Dave's catering

The pen for small animals

Rabbits, chickens, a pig, ducks

The larger animals: sheep, goats, miniature pony (not shown)

Making balloon sticker animals

Our bounce house definitely got full use!

Pop-pop and Great-Grandma Stell

Mom-mom and Pop-pop

Great-Grandma and Aunt Sandy

Joey and Jesse

Poppy and me

She wanted to be held most of the day!

Friends S. and A.

Friends V. and L.

Clare

Andrew

Den

Mark

Josie

Great-Grandma Josephine

Cousin Brandon

Cousin Frankie

Poppy, me, and Willow

Poppy was not so sure about the pony.

Cousin Linda

Olive and Mom-mom

Little M.

Cousin Evie

Olive riding Willow

Not so sure about it

Grandma Ro

Mike

Janis and J. making a funny face

Jake riding Willow

Please don't take my ribbon, Poppy!

Aunt Ne-ne showing Olive how to feed the goats

Cousins Natalie and Sara

Olive

15 day old Carl and Anna

Friends A. and E.

Pop-pop Joe

Grandma and Pop-pop

Little A.

Olive

Do you think she loved the animals, or what?

Mr. Sheep

Poppy and L. romping in the balloons

One of the chickens laid an egg for us!

Little G. and Mom Erin

Another Little G.

We have fun in Gymboree art class together!

Animals again

J. riding Willow

Cousin Bill

Pop-pop

I gave in and let them have soda!

Olive

Poppy

Janis

Bouncing away

Cake time!

This is the first party I've planned almost all by myself.  My consultants were: Jill, my mom, and Jill's mom.  I could not have pulled it off without you all!  Thank you to everyone else that helped clean, set-up, break down, and clean again!  Let's do it again in a few years.  And, to our guests, thanks for coming!  We hope you had a blast.