Ella in her Ladybug outfit! Happy 2nd Birthday Beautiful Girl!!!
We Love You!!!
THE CAKE!!!
I was so excited about making this cake for Ella's birthday! My first attempt with fondant actually went better than I thought! It was so much fun to make and really pretty easy. I ended up making 5 cakes total: 2 - 9x13 cakes for the base covered with butter cream and green dyed coconut for "grass". 2 - round cakes for the Ladybug body and head baked in Pyrex bowls, I then covered them in fondant. 1 - 9x13 cake that was the most crucial part of the cake, it was the one that I used to snack on while I made the other 4! I am so excited to do another fondant cake for Livy's birthday!
Ella loved her Ladybug costume so much she didn't even mind that the antenna covered her eyes as she tried to open presents!
Ella opening her presents!
One of these days the Swanson family will take a good family photo - today is not that day! However we all wore our red/white/black to go with Ella's Ladybug theme! Livy even had a Ladybug on her shirt!
Aunt Megs with Livy!
Cake time!
Ella and Carson were quick to remove the black candles that were being used as Ladybug antenna and then plugged the holes with their fingers!
Ella favorite part was peeling off and eating the black fondant Ladybug spots! All the kids enjoyed the cake deciding whether to have a piece of the body or the head!
Back for more spots!
"It's my birthday party and I can steal the ball from you if I want to cousin Brady!" Ella expressing true 2 year behavior, everything is mine, mine, mine! Good thing Brady is such a good boy!
More 2 year old behavior, being extremely loving and affectionate.
Ella still watches over Brady like he is a baby.
Sunday after Ella's party was another gorgeous day! Here is our big 2 year old girl playing outside!
Finally!!! She let me put a ponytail in her hair and actually left it in for about an hour!
And this is what happens after a weekend long celebration of turning 2! Passed out at nap time, but still sleeping with her hands behind her head like she did as a baby!
Okay, one more cake! This one is on Ella's actual birthday. We had to buy a small cake from the store so she could blow out her "2" candle.
Pucker up sissy!
Ella giving her baby sister Livy a kiss before birthday cake!
Dive in baby doll! That's my daughter, eating cake just like her mommy, who needs a fork!
Happy Birthday Ella!
We can't believe you are 2 already! You have given us the best 2 years of our lives! Each day you present us with a million new reasons to smile! You are loved more than you can imagine!
CUTE!!! I LOVE the ladybug theme!!! She is So grown up! I can't believe it! It seems like jsut yesterday that Bob handed her through the car window, only a few days old! Just looking at her cute little smile makes me smile!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Ella! We had SO much fun celebrating with you! WE LOVE YOU ALL!!:)
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