Taelin's 2nd Birthday

 Taelin's birthday was so much fun.  He turned 2 on Friday the 22nd.  Dalin had mcmap training in the morning from 5-7 and then got to come home for 1 hour to shower and get ready so he could go to work.  I made Taelin some mickey mouse pancakes for breakfast, and then we opened a couple of Taelin's birthday presents.  Then Dalin had to leave to go to work.  Taelin had a lot of fun running, pushing his pop pop, or riding his bike through his balloons.  Here are some pics of the morning:)

The front room! All of his BATMAN balloons and the BATMAN happy birthday sign that I made:) My friend Amber has a cricut machine, and she was so kind to let me use it for the letters:) Dalin made the first bat, and then I cut out the rest of them!:) Allison helped me string it together and hang it up!! I always want to make Happy Birthday Signs now! It was so much fun and it turned out so good!!!

A close up of the sign

Streamers coming out into the front room

The kitchen

The sign that we made to go on Taelin's door

MICKEY MOUSE PANCAKES!!!

So excited to eat his mickey mouse pancakes:) I made them so big on accident that we ended up throwing a lot of it away, but who cares it was for his birthday! and he loved them

Pushing his lawn mower through his balloons

Where did the big balloon go?

Doing his puzzle that he got from G&G Bradshaw

What a cute tan little boy!! Growing up so fast!

 Before nap time Taelin helped me make a chocolate cake from scratch!!! It was so much fun! And i will NEVER buy a chocolate cake again!!!!! This cake was so moist and so good.  You can find the recipe on the back of Herseys Coco:)

Getting ready to make it!:)

Taelin is the best helper! He loves to dumb the ingredients into the bowl

About to bake!

Licking off all of the frosting on his arm!

The cake all baked and ready to cool!

The icing:)

Allison showing me how to use her amazing pampered chef spreader! I will someday own one of those!

The crumb coat all finished

The fondunt on the cake and the outline of the bat symbol

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The bat symbol all filled in

the finished product! :) It was so much fun too! I love making cakes each year for his birthday:)

His birthday presents from mom, dad, g&g bradshaw, & g&p Nelson:)

It was hard making the rest of the cake when Taelin was awake from his nap because all he wanted to do was eat it, but his party wasn't until the next day....so he just had to wait.  Taelin only took a 1 hour nap, and was surprisingly a lot of fun and not grumpy...i think he knew it was his birthday and he wanted to spend every moment awake:) He did whine for stupid stuff, and it was like he knew that he could do whatever he wanted because it was his birthday!
At 445 pm we walked over to Phelps house to go baby sit Adia.  She is a cute little 5 year old in our branch and Taelin & her have a lot of fun together. Her parents went to go see Harry Potter, so Taelin & I went on over there to play:) Dalin arrived around 530 and we had so much fun. We ran around the house, played hide & go seek, made a band, and played on her mat where they did fun tricks and jumped off of the couch onto it.  We then got in our swimming suits and headed over to the Courtney pool for our branch activity.  We swam from 745-900.  It was so much fun.  We really love our branch over here.  Dalin had a great time showing off his cool tricks on the diving board...the kids all LOVED it.  Taelin would clap and scream every time Dalin would do a trick.  It was so adorable! He is so proud of his daddy! Dalin tried to teach some people how to do some tricks off of the diving board, he really enjoyed that.  They did a who can make the biggest splash off of the diving board and Dalin won by A LOT! He also did a relay race with some of the people in our branch doing laps and his team lost by just a hair.  Taelin & I had a lot of fun watching Daddy and also splashing in the pool.  Taelin jumped off of the diving board 1 time to Dalin, which is so cute.  I swam a couple of laps, and I felt really good.  I am going to start going to the pool 2 times a week to do water aerobics:) We had a really good time.  When we were driving home we heard the Japanese practicing on their drums and dancing, so we pulled over to the side of the road and watched for a little bit.  It was so cool.  We came home and were all so tired and went right to bed! What a fun fun birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAELIN JACOB NELSON! WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND ARE SO HAPPY THAT YOU ARE OUR SON.  YOU MAKE US SO HAPPY!!!!