Family birthday party

We went down to NC to visit with people over Labor Day weekend, and had Maddox's family party then. The McIntyre's were generous enough to host (plus their house is a great party house!) and it was a much more central location than Hampton, VA. Thanks to everybody so much for helping make Mdx's birthday special, and alleviating a little bit of stress for me!

Uncle Marc and Aunt Kris gave her an awesome dress up box full of stuff they had been collecting. Maddox put on quite a few things and went for a walk!

On party day everyone helped decorate and prepare, I was SO thankful!

Mdx's cake....look familiar? This one was cupcakes!

Mdx and T.A. We had to take Mdx's beautiful dress off before she had any cake.

What's going on?

Now can I have cake?

Good thing I don't have that dress on!

We put it back on for presents.

Mdx opened this baby stroller- and was DONE! She did not want any more presents!

So....when mean Mama tried to get her to keep opening presents and leave the stroller alone...this is what she did! A 2 year old birthday party is not complete without a good cry.

Anderson showed her how to use her new tricycle.

Thanks to everybody who came, and helped with the party! I know Maddox had a great time! Thank you also for all the gifts. The thank you cards will be arriving sometime in 2011....right now we'll have to make do with a thank you blog.

Then she turned 2....

Gosh, at this rate I won't be caught up with blog posts until sometime next year. HA!

We invited a handful of Maddox's friends over for a "friend party" on the afternoon of her birthday. I am so glad that Tam and Tim were here to help me! My Mom also arrived shortly after the party started. She was coming in town to help me with Mdx for the week, since it was a week of teacher workdays for me.

Tim created a beautiful fan decoration. He's an interior designer for the Air Force. Okay, he's an Air Traffic Controller, but I'm sure they are related somehow.

Aa was exhausted and fell asleep before the party started.

Mdx was ready to party!!

There were lots of little babies and friends running around.

8 different flavors of Ben & Jerry's to choose from!!

Mdx's cake!

I was trying to keep her from touching the flame....but we had practiced blowing out the candle ahead of time! Marshall was watching on the webcam, but it was a bad connection so we couldn't really hear him. I'm glad he got to see it though.

We opened presents and let everybody play with them!

It was a fun party, and good practice for her family party which was over Labor Day weekend. More pictures to come!