Happy Birthday Kylee!!!

Saturday, May 21st was Kylee's 2nd birthday!! When she woke up she saw the living room that had tons of balloons and streamers everywhere. Grandma Murdock gave her a princess crown witch she had to wear all day long.

I made her Mickey Mouse pancakes for breakfast!

Then after her nap we headed to the park for her Tangled birthday party!! Kylee LOVES to watch Tanged and will sing the theme song all day long :)

This year instead of a cake I made cupcakes!! We had strawberry cupcakes with strawberry cream cheese frosting and vanilla cupcakes with lemonade buttercream frosting. They were delicious!!!

Kylee got two princess dresses. I never knew she was such a girly girl, but she is! Here she is posing in her Cinderella dress from Grandma Murdock.

This is her second dress from Aunt Mary and Uncle Scott.

Kylee loves to dance and asked her dad to dance with her :) So sweet. I love having a girl :)
Daddy set up Kylee's new tricycle. She loves to be pushed around the neighborhood because her feet can't quite reach the petals.
Kylee had such a fun birthday!! We celebrated with all of her Grandma's and Grandpa's and Aunts and Uncles and cousins!!! Thanks to everyone for making this such a special day for Kylee.

Here are some cute phrases that Kylee has said lately :

* "Hey, guess what? Kylee's birthday is SATURDAY!!!"

* "Bless Daddy work" She adds on work when I say bless daddy, I guess because he is gone working a lot :(

* "Austin stinky diaper, pee-you!"

* "Hey Sheri... (when she hear's me call my mother in law by her first name) Then I say, no, that's grandma.

* The other night Jeremy put her down to bed. They sang songs, said prayers, then as he was about to shut the door she wispers, "Hey daddy.... cupcake?" I guess she has food on her mind.

Favorite song: Book of Mormon Stories, I love to see the temple

Favorite color: She says blue but everything she picks out to wear is pink

Favorite food: any fruit, right now pineapple, Mac-n-cheese

Favorite TV show: Sesame Street

Favorite movies: Tangled, Bambi and Beauty and the Beast

Bed time: 7pm, but usually goes down around 7:30pm and will sleep until 7:30 am

Weight: 29 lbs 25%

Height: 38 in 100% +

Happy Easter!

This year for Easter weekend we were able to take our first family road trip and visit my brother and sister in law in Gilbert, AZ. It took us about 7 hours to get there when it should have been a 5 hour drive. I guess you just have to plan for extra stops when you have kids. We made three stops but finally got there. It was nice to sit in the car and talk to Jeremy while both kids were strapped in their car seats and couldn't move :) Kylee spent some of the time napping and the other watching Toy Story 3 on her DVD player (that was a life saver!) Some of the time both kids were screaming at the top of their lungs, but what do you do.

When we got in Friday night we went down to the Mesa temple and saw the Easter Pageant. It was my first time seeing it and it was AMAZING! It follows the story of the Saviors birth, ministry, death and resurrection through music, speech and dance. I could feel the spirit so strong. I know that because of the Savior we can live again! I know that if we follow him we will be happy and can have joy and peace. It was wonderful to share this experience with my family.

The next day we played outside with Diamond, my brother's dog. She is so sweet and is full of life! It took Kylee a little while to warm up, but now she loves her.

We also went to see some tortoise that Tasia's dad raises. Some of them were huge!!! Kylee didn't do so well when they were close but she loved looking at them from far away. I'm not sure how she'll do at the zoo.

Aunt Tasia bonding with Austin and Kylee.

Saturday night all of my cousins that live in Mesa/Gilbert cam over for a party. It was so nice to see everyone!!!! I wish I had taken more pictures of everyone. Here is Kylee warming right up to Cousin Kelsey and Cody.
Sunday morning Kylee found her Easter basket that the bunny left for her :) It was filled with eggs, some coloring crayons and an Elmo coloring book. She was thrilled.

Aunt Tasia was so nice and thoughtful and bought an egg dyeing kit to color eggs. It totally slipped my mind. Kylee had a lot of fun watching. Maybe next year I will be brave enough for her to make a huge mess. We had so much fun staying with Shane and Tasia and loved seeing their cute house and meeting their sweet dog Diamond. We can't wait to see them when they come to CA in July!
My mom has this crazy bunny at her house that sings and dances and is pretty nuts. Kylee loves to push the button to make it dance and she dances right along with it.

Grandma Murdock also had an Easter egg hunt for the Murdock cousins before we left. Kylee was so excited to collect eggs because this was her first time (that she can remember). She was so excited about her Easter basket that we could not get her to look up once for a picture. Oh well. I hope everyone had a Happy Easter!!