Saturday we had a party for Francie in our backyard... since "Francie was turning TWO, only airplanes and helicopters would do!" We weren't sure we could pull everything together in time for a party so it was a little bit of a last minute scramble and we kind of invited friends and family as we saw them out and about but we ended up with a fun crowd to celebrate Francie's big day. She was slightly overwhelmed with all the attention but had a great time playing with friends, eating birthday cake and opening presents. I think she'd say it was a pretty great day!

I attempted to make her a helicopter cake. My friend Christian volunteered to help me and after getting a bunch of supplies and trying to figure out how in the world to sculpt a helicopter cake... we decided to just make a tiered cake and put one of the little helicopter favors on top. I can imagine any attempt at the sculpted cake would have ended up in a pile of crumbs!

Aunt Kat and Uncle Donald drove down for the weekend from Red Bluff (and were tons of help before the party, thanks!) and Aunt Sarah with baby Clara (Unlce Mark helped too- it was a photo finish for the BBQ and electrical)