Lucy's 2nd birthday parties

We celebrated Lucy's birthday a week early up in Salt Lake.  

My brother was in town skiing with Ben and we made it a Sunday night birthday event.

Lucy had recently become obsessed with Elmo, mostly a large Elmo stuffed animal we have and an iPad game.  We decided to go with that as her "theme" and enjoyed dinner with family.

On her actual birthday, January 25th, we had a fun day together.

She opened presents in the morning and then went to the Rec Center to swim with dad.

It's always nice having an extra set of hands and being all together during the day.
In the afternoon we went to a class with pizza and Lucy fell asleep on my shoulder at 11:45. 

I honestly can't recall the last time she did that, probably before she turned one?!

She must have not felt well, as she did feel warm and had a runny nose.

She had a later than normal nap and opened a couple more presents.  I was going to save one of the presents for the evening time, but she reached it off the piano and kept saying "presents, open."  She was pretty persistent, so I let her have it!  It was fun having her more interested in opening presents and playing with them right away.  That night we went to Chick-Fil-A with DD/Adam and CJ/Taryn + Holly.  Ben was gone building snow caves with the scouts for five hours.  Boo.

We enjoyed brownies with candles and Happy Birthday duet sung by me and William.

Lucy had fun saying "Happy Birthday," "TWO" and "SO big" all day.  She is so much fun!

A few days later, on Sunday night, we had Ben's family over for birthday dessert.
We continued with the Elmo theme making cupcakes and fruit platters.

She's our little sweetheart and is happy all the time!