Maylee's 2nd Birthday

Like last year, we had Maylee's second birthday party at Ammie & Papa's house because it is closer to family members than our house.  Maylee loves ladybugs so that is the theme we went with.  Cousin Dominic's birthday fell a few days before Maylee's so we did a joint birthday and I made Dominic a caterpillar out of cupcakes.

Of course, my new camera started acting up this weekend and was not even taking "fair" pictures.  This was very frustrating since it was not even three months old!  Almost all the pictures from her birthday party are blurry except for ones taken outside with bright light.

Pre-Birthday Party Sprinkler Time

Birthday Party

We started the evening with Maylee's parachute (a baby shower gift). 

With Kev being an elementary p.e. teacher, he had us playing lots of parachute games.

The next day, Ammie asked her what her baby's name was. 

Maylee looked at the t.v. and said Baby Football and she has stuck with that name.

 Playing with cousins Lilly and Cooper...

Present from Uncle Kevin & Aunt Shelly

Reading new books with Mama...

This Little Bum-bum is proud to be in "big girl panties," especially because Dora is on them!



Post-Birthday Gift

Kathy, a good family friend, drove up on her day off to give Maylee a present.

Kathy is known for baking cookies so Maylee got Cookie Monster and cookies!

"Deer Walking in the Road"

After we stopped by the goat farm, we headed down to Moscow because Maylee's birthday party was the next day.  Outside of Princeton, we slammed on the breaks because a deer was in the middle of the road.  Maylee was awake and had BIG eyes.  Since, then she talks about the deer walking in the road.  Now, she alters the story and the deer is walking in the road in front of our house, or the deer is running, or she is going to hunt the deer walking in the road.  If she doesn't see a deer when we are driving then she usually says it is hiding in the bushes or trees.  Her funny deer stories have been going on for months now...that deer made a lasting impression.  :-)

Goat Time

One of our colleagues lives on a farm and her family raises goats.  Kev sometimes hunts on their property.  Maylee loves going there because they have many goats, dogs, and a horse.  She is awesome about hold her hand like a fist for animals to smell before she pets them.  She also likes their son's fort play structure.

Labor Day Weekend

We spent the first night at the cabin and enjoyed time around the campfire.  On Saturday, we drove to Kamiah for their annual BBQ Days.  Maylee loved hanging out with cousins and trying to get parade candy.  After the parade, we met up with our good friends, Kenzie and Josh, and Maylee got to play in the kiddie park with cousins.  Later, we took Kenzie and Josh back to the cabin with us.

 

Uncle Wes knows how to get to Maylee's heart...ice cream!

Kenzie loves photography and has started her own business called Fur Keeps Pet Photography.  She brought her camera down to the cabin's beach and we love the pictures she took.  We also had her take a family picture of us even though we didn't plan on that when we packed clothes for the weekend so we cordinated our clothes the best we could.

 

Pictures I took at the beach...



We took Kenzie & Josh to Kev's summer fire station.  Maylee always loves the horses and mules there, but at this time she doesn't know the difference so they are all horses to her.  Kenzie captured some pictures of the animals and around the station...

My pictures from the station that day...

 

 For kicks and giggles...here is Maylee by the same steps the previous year.

She has changed and grown a lot!