The Birthday Party

Braxton's 2 year old birthday bash was a success!

The guests:  Avery (with her parents Travis and Lauren) and Ruby (with her parents Chris and Erin)

The menu: raisins, mandarin oranges, ritz crackers, grapes, goldfish crackers, and juice boxes (with pizza and chicken wings as the main dish) followed by brownies and ice cream.

The craft activities: playing with pipe cleaners and using markers to decorate tamborines.
The gift bags contained animal crackers, a juice box, lotion, and the tamborine that each girl decorated at the party (it made me happy to put these gift bags together and they looked cute with the "thanks for coming" photo of Braxton).

 

 

These are the Happy Birthday Brownies that I made (not to be confused with the 2-layer cake that I baked, decorated, and ruined earlier in the day) .  These brownies were yummy.

The birthday boy:

Ruby, Avery, and Braxton

Playing with pipe cleaners and tamborines:

The most popular food at the party = grapes!

Opening presents:

Hugs for everyone:

Two videos from the Birthday Party:

The party was a smashing success.  The biggest incident of the night came after the party was over.  Braxton was running around downstairs and tripped.  His head dented a corner of the wall and chipped off some paint.  Braxton is fine but the wall is not (photo below).  Brock sumarized by saying, "unfortunately Braxton has his mother's grace and his father's smarts."