Party Time!

We had a birthday bash for Taylee on Sunday. A good time was had by all. Well, except maybe Taylee. She was a little overwhelmed by all the people, and kept trying to escape the party. She repeatedly dragged nana into the garage. So sad. However, once it was time to open presents, she was enjoying herself again.
We set up Grandma's blow-up water slide and the baby pool in our backyard, along with cabanas for shade. We had meat trays, rolls, potato salad and pasta salad, cookies, and all sorts of goodies. Followed, of course, by cake and ice cream!
For posterities sake, the attendees were: Lana, Danny, Tavin, Mark, Amber, Kenzie, Nana, Poppie, Ginger, Aden, Garrett, Xavier, Grandma Judson, Grandpa Judson, Mike, Shelly, Cody, Hunter, Scott, Ranae, Mike, Jennika, Dawson, Daphne, Summer, Courtney, Elle, Max, and of course, me, Kent, Skyler, and Taylee. We were so grateful that Aunt Ginger, Aden, Garrett, and Xavier were able to travel all the way from Colorado to celebrate with us. This visit turned Taylee's birthday celebration into an all weekend event! The whole fam went to the Roy Aquatic Center on Friday (minus me - sleeping after night shift, and Kent - working), then we did fireworks Friday night. On Saturday we spent the evening at Boondock's - way fun!! By Sunday the party was in full swing! This weekend of fun and frolicking, and staying up past our bedtimes, was a little too much for my sweet little two year old, and she had a little (ok, MAJOR) meltdown on Sunday evening.
But, alas, she was good as new on Monday morning, ready to play with all her new birthday gifts. She got new clothes, a new baby doll and a stroller, a teaset, an Elmo doll, some puzzles and books, her ELMO phone (can you tell she likes Elmo?), a dollhouse, a homemade ice cream maker, two singamajigs, several movies, and a new little motorized quad. And I haven't even spent the money that Aunt Tota and Great Grandpa Gene sent for her! Can you say SPOILED?! The good news is that she has been playing with everything she got, and enjoying ALL of it! Thank you everyone for spoiling my baby and coming along to help make her day special. She may not appreciate it (yet), but Kent and I sure do!

PS Don't know how to load my slideshow into this post, so scroll down to the next to view photos of the party.