My Beautiful Girl is 2 !!!

Time travelling fast and all that!!1 seems to have been my reoccurring statement over the last few weeks, i am still in shock that Isabella is 2!!! It's crazy!!


But my oh my is she showing us that she is more grown up! In more ways than one, her speech is coming along great guns, her understanding of what we say and ask her is brilliant, and her motor skills are crazily developed, she can pop a screw driver into the head of a screw!! ( whilst "helping daddy" and whilst daddy was watching her like a hawk i might add!!!) We are both so proud of the little girl our tiny baby is becoming, its just so wonderful to sit here and think back on all the wonderful memories we have of her already and look forward to all the wonderful times ahead. I know, we know, that we are very lucky and blessed to have such a daughter as Bella, and for that i will always be grateful. *Sigh*



I thought i would share with you a few pictures of how we celebrated Isabella's 2nd birthday this year.



It was a relatively large affair given that it took place at home, but thankfully the sun shone (and was actually hot! kin October!!!! and all went swimmingly.

So we went ahead and chose a sweet shop theme, and this is what it looked like;


The pick n mix bag style cake. Made by Jack and I.

We put up a huge gazebo type thing in the garden and filled it with all the food and decorations, hoping to keep as many people in there and outside as possible!

Jack made the background pink stripes from crepe paper and lining paper. I think it looked fab!!

The bunting was made for Bella's christening over a year ago, so i felt i got my use out of it using it a second time. The sign was a quickie on some card, but the bit that all the kids (and adults) loved was the selection of sweets. We borrowed a friends cash n carry card and went and filled our boots with boxes and boxes of haribo!!! It went down so well and those Kilner style jars from Ikea were a steal at £1 !! brill!!!

We even managed to get those blue scoops from Amazon ( thanks Leanne!!) and some old style sweetie bags too,i stamped these myself, so quick & easy & saves a fortune !





Oooh & on the door was this, to help Bella's little friends find the fun :)




The party bags, green for the boys and pink for the girls :O))) more sweets in there!!!
Inside the tent.....


Don't you just love those lanterns? They were interspersed with tissue paper pom poms too!!

Oh yeah and there was also quite a lot of real food too, not just sweets!!!






It was honestly an amazing day, it took a lot of hard work and planning i some respects, but it was more than worth it. Bella had an amazing time, playing with her friends on the bouncy castle and with her garden toys. I can safely say we are both so pleased we decided to throw her a party!!



I have more pictures to share of the happy 2 year old herself so i will post those separately later, I am aware that a lot of the party shots contain other children and am less keen on posting those on here, so whilst i filter out those, I'll leave you in peace!!


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