Suzan's Second Birthday!
Anna's Second Birthday!
Bethany's Second Birthday!
Brielle's Second Birthday!
March 4th, 2010
 

Yes, today the girls turn 2! Wow! They are SOOOO precious and we feel VERY BLESSED that God gave them to us! God is amazing! May God continue to mold and shape our girls and may He continue to give Paul and I wisdom, joy, peace and love in how we raise them. They are such sweet and wonderful girls!!!!

 
4 2-year-olds!  Yay!
Suzan, Anna, Bethany and Brielle
Smiley Suzan!
 
 
Adorable Anna!
 
 
Beautiful Bethany!
 
 
Boisterous Brielle
 
 
The invite
 
The morning of the girls' party Jared, the sweet Big Brother he is!, decided to make each sister a special birthday "crown."
When we asked him how/where he knew to make these he said his teacher does this for each kid in his class, when it's that child's birthday.
Needless to say, the girlies LOVED the handmade "hats" from brother.

Brielle, very excited to be the first birthday girl to get her crown...
 
Suzan, giddy with glee for her new crown...
 
Anna, a bit stunned she had to wait so long for her crown...
 
And Bethany, finally happy to have hers. Notice the big crocodile tears?
Yes, she CRIED for hers, thinking she was going to be left out and not get one.
No way, NeeNee. You'll get one, you just had to wait a bit girly!
 
Ooooo! The ladybug birthday cupcakes! Very cute!
 
The bakery ladies made 4 special ladybug cupcakes, 1 for each girl. How sweet and adorable!
The ladies did an AWESOME job in decorating the cupcakes!
 
Our friends' little boy, Jude Martin, taking a seat at the "fun table" ;)
 
Jared thought it would be fun for the girlies to wear their crowns again...Brielle
 
Anna...
 
Bethany...
 
And Suzan...
 
Mama lighting candles on the cupcakes
 
Birth order time! Time to sing "Happy Birthday!" to Suzan! Suz trying to blow out the candles :D
 
"Cheese!"
 
She got one! Yay!
 
Time to sing "Happy Birthday!" to Anna! Anna Pie trying to blow out the candles :D
 
FYI...I love Jared's look in the background - Ha! ;)
 
Yay! She, too, got one!!
 
Hi Brielle, looking too cute! :D
 
Time to sing "Happy Birthday!" to Bethany! NeeNee trying to blow out the candles :D
 
 
Go Bethany!!!
 
Yay! She, too, got one!!!
 
Time to sing "Happy Birthday!" to Brielle! Brielle'y trying to blow out the candles :D
Okay, she was the biggest hoot of them all! I think it was because she saw her 3 sisters go first so she saw/knew what to do.
She blew out the candles when were were about 2 words into "Happy Birthday!" Paul had to relight them - Ha!
 
Trying for #2 candles :D
 
Then she was hilarious when she clapped and cheered along with us, for herself in getting all of the candles blown out. I tell you, she was a HOOT!!!! :D
 
Now, it's time to EAT the cupcakes!! Brielle...
 
Bethany...
 
Anna...
 
Suzan
 
Big Brother Jared (and no, that is NOT his Zero that he is drinking. That's mine! ;) )
 
Some of the other guests...Ryan and Grace Murphy
 
Julia and James Martin having some candle fun too!
 
Grammy! No, that is NOT her hat. That is one of the girlies hats :D
 
Ryan enjoying his cake, er, frosting ;)
 
Russell Murphy, who apparently either stole some cupcake from Brielle or Brielle, as she is known to do, pawned off her remaining cupcake to Russell.
In any case, he was SO funny with that cake :D
 
Gracie playing with Anna. Too sweet!
 
Anna checking out the many red, black and ladybug balloons
 
Grammy with Brielle'y
 
Grammy with Anna Pie
 
Ladybug door decorations, made by Mama ;)
 
G&G Carlson got the girlies pink Cozy Coupes. Our neighbor handed down one to us but the 5 kids were always fighting over it. No more.
Now, Jared can use the one we received from the neighbor and the girlies each have their own set of pink wheels!

The Cozy Coupe Line-up.  Suz will enjoy her Coupe as soon as her cast comes off :D
 
Jared, enjoying his car
 
Brielle in hers
 
Anna in hers. It looks like she is being a safe driver and looking back before backing up. Good job girly! - Ha! ;)
 
Ooops! I guess hers ran out of gas, though. Anna pushing hers
 
And in case you were wondering what were the girlies' birthday outfits, here you go. Bethany can be my model :D
Mama made the ladybug shirts and hair bows - what fun!