Birthday Celebrations

For Avery's second birthday, we decided to skip the big birthday party and instead spread her birthday celebrations out over a couple weekends.

In mid-June, Luke's family came to Columbia to celebrate Avery. Luke's Grandparents and Aunt Amy even made the trip from Michigan. Avery loved seeing all of them and even made Grandma jealous by willingly saying Amy's name over and over.

Unfortunately, I had a work meeting on Avery's actual birthday so we chose to pretend her birthday was a day earlier. Luke and I woke her up singing "Happy Birthday", took Elmo cupcakes to her school, took her swimming and opened presents. It was a perfect day. (Thankfully, Aunt Jen was off work on Avery's birthday and took Avery to the science center, lunch with uncle Joel and out for ice cream. I think Avery had a perfect day!)

Finally, we celebrated with the Greene family the first weekend in July. We had pizza, cake and presents on Saturday night and went to Grant's Farm on Sunday. Although it was brutally hot and I spent most of the day in the gift shop staying cool with Logan, Avery had a blast at Grant's Farm. Her favorite part was playing with and feeding the goats