Happy 2nd Birthday Megan!

Megan's birthday party was a great success. We had beautiful weather and lots of friends and family to help celebrate. We had her party at Plumper Pumpkin Patch. All of the kids were able to play and tromp around in the patches and I think they all had a great time. I can't believe she is two (well not till the 23rd!). She was such a good girl all day long and had so much fun and then crashed about 5 minutes after we got in the car.

I kept it pretty simple this year. I made applesauce cupcakes, chocolate chip pumpkin cookies and had other snacks to eat. Not nearly the spread we had last year but this time it was much less stressful and we had an equally great time. Having it at another location is definitely the way to go we decided!

Come with me!

Megan greeting Dylan

Jay, Campbell and Henley arrive

and the kids find the pumpkin patch.

Megan loves chips but here she decides that she can share with Aunt Kelly.

Pat, Billie, Jaxon and Gabriel arrive

As soon as we got to the farm, Megan saw the ponies. She wanted to go right in and ride. I told her she had to wait so she stood at the gate and watched and was so excited! Once everyone arrived I told her that she could ride the horsey. She was squealing and smiling and laughing. So excited! This is the third time she's ridden a horse and she loves it! She did it all by herself, I let her ride without walking next to her for the most part and she held on like a big girl. She even went one handed a few times so that she could wave to all of her fans watching and even blow them a kiss or two.

All of the kids loved this slide. They all went down 5-6 times each.

Playing in the hay maze

They had farm animals for the kids to see like cows, pigs, goats, llamas, turkeys and chickens. Megan loves seeing cows on the farms around our house so seeing them up close is really neat to her.

Jay, Campbell and Henley wait for the slide.

Two little candles on her cupcake!

She loves the "Happy Birthday" song

Blowing out the candles all by herself!

Sharing with Grandma Van

Unfortunately of all things, we had to rush through opening presents. Megan is so lucky and got so many wonderful things from her friends and family.

She really likes her princess towels from the Lords.

A learning game for the fridge.

Aunt Tami and Devin got her a drum with instruments inside that make lots and lots of noise! She loves it!

Megan's mommy and Aunties

Once we cleaned up the party room Megan got to ride one more time with her friends Jace and Jaxon. When we got in line there was only one horse available so we asked if we could wait for the next ride. Megan was so upset because she didn't understand why there was an empty horse and she wasn't on it. She kept pointing and crying. She seriously had her full lip out and big tears. Yes she was tired by that point but she just so wanted to ride!! So finally she got her turn. And then of course we had a repeat performance of the tears when her turn was over. We had to distract her quickly.

So we made our way over to the barrel train ride.

Here's our twin pose #1

and twin pose #2!

Megan loving baby Gabriel

On the hay ride

Even the big kids had fun!

Megan finally in the actual pumpkin patch. Here she is kissing the pumpkin...

Megan being uncooperative in her family shot. It WAS about the 250th picture of the day!

And she's out! She made it about 5 miles and sung herself to sleep. She was singing and then the next thing we knew, she was conked out!