2nd Birthday Celebrations

So we started celebrating Aubrey's 2nd year with having Aunt Krystal, Uncle Jon, and Norah up for the weekend of November 3rd.  Since they were here we had just had to have a celebration with them!!  The one thing Aubrey has been asking for were cupcakes.  Every time I asked her what she wanted for her birthday it was always 'cupcakes.' So hey, if that's what my little one wanted I could totally do that!

 

We had a small celebration on Sunday evening November 4 with my side of the family.  My mom and I made some appetizers and we of course had cupcakes!  Duncan Hines makes mixes that are dairy free so that's what this little lady got for her celebration.

 

Poor Aubrey.  While Mom and her aunt were trying to take some pictures, she got so desperate for her cupcakes that she began to stutter and say, "No more picture! Put camera down!  Aubrey wants cupcakes!"  We had a good laugh and then we gladly handed her a cupcake :)

 

The morning of her birthday I made some almond milk pancakes with sprinkles and Aubrey got to open her presents that daddy and mommy got for her.

 

 

Aubrey LOVES any Corduroy book so we looked everywhere to find her a little Corduroy bear.  It was surprisingly hard to find one that actually looked like the one in the book!  But we found one at last...

 

Brandon had the day off so we spent the morning as a family and playing with her new things and got some things ready for her family celebration in the evening.

 

 

It was nothing really big but we had both sets of grandparents, her great-grandparents, and Uncle Tyler and Aunt Jessica over.  Brandon smoked and BBQ some DELICIOUS pork ribs and I made some cupcakes in a jar thanks to the idea from my friend Lyndsay from  Educated...Not So Domesticated. I think they turned out pretty cute :).

 

We ate the delicious dinner and then Aubrey opened her presents.  This girl is definitely loved!!

 

 

After presents Aubrey got to devour yet another cupcake :).

 

 

She ate it pretty carefully and she made sure to lick every bit of frosting off of her fingers between bites :).

 

As the evening went on the sugar kicked in and this girl had even more energy than she normally has.  There were some sweet moments of her playing with her Uncle Tyler and Aunt Jessica (and she's normally pretty scared of her uncle's beard so this was a milestone!).  Aubrey even gave him a high five at the end of the night!

 

 

Overall it was a great, quiet evening celebrating this little bundle of joy.