Trevor's 2nd Birthday Party

So it's been a while since we last posted but for good reason. Well, actually a bad reason, a very bad reason. The memory card that had um 700+ photos was somehow compromised and we lost all of the photos from our AZ trip (thank goodness we updated the blog before we lost them!) but we also lost all of the photos from Trevor's 2nd birthday party at our house. Sadness!!! We took the card into National Camera Exchange to try to recover the photos but they had not luck. All hope is not lost yet though because an unnamed someone offered to put in a favor with the forensics team to see if they could pull them off. Oh my gosh, our hearts would be so happy if they could. We all know how much pictures mean to us!!!

In the interim though, here are the only pictures we had from Sara's parents and from Sara's iphone. Jeff and Dawn have some pictures they will share too but for now these will have to work.

First off, Trevor requested a Buzz birthday party. Big surprise right? He LOVES Buzz!!

So like last year we were set on making his cake rather than buying one. Ugh, whose idea was that?? The first cake we made didn't bake evenly and then stuck to the pan. Luckily the second one turned out better and we were committed. Until, that is it came to frosting the cake. Here's a pic of the design we were supposed to do and in the background you can see how we started - by outlining what we thought it was supposed to look like.

It was at this point Sara declared that the cake was going to look stupid so wanted to throw it away and just buy one the next day. But, Brian is persistent and apparently can see into the future and kept going. We're so glad we did, even if we were up past Midnight making Trevor's special cake because it did turn out very cute!!

Not many pictures at all, but Trevor was lucky enough to get a picture with Papa Steve. As you can see he was a happy boy at his party! He really enjoyed spending time with all of his Aunts and Uncles, cousins, and Grandma Jeanne and Grandpa Steve!

After feasting on Trevor's favorite foods: pizza, Doritos, salad and veggies with dip we played a game that Sara used to play at her birthday parties growing up - the M&M drop game. Ugh, we had such great pictures of this game. Ugh. Basically though the kids would stand or kneel on a dining room chair and drop M&M candies into an empty egg carton. Each section of the egg carton is assigned a point value and the person with the most points after say 10 M&Ms win. If our memory serves us right Trevor came in second behind Lauren!! Leah much preferred to eat her M&Ms and who can blame her!

After the game, we enjoyed some cake. Trevor didn't cry this time when we all sang him 'Happy Birthday' and we waited patiently while Dada cut into Buzz!

Trevor usually LOVES cake but we think he was excited to eat. After faking one bite of cake he got down and went up to Lauren and said 'Lauren play'! We think this made her feel really special because she shared the story with us and Grandma and Grandpa Hillins!!

After cake (or some more playing) Trevor opened his gifts! He sure had a lot of helpers with this endeavor!! Everyone was SO generous - some highlights include books, clothes, a cool car track with cars, and Toy Story figurines!

So even with a lack of pictures we have memories in our hearts and that is really what matters. Good thing we have three pictures of the cake though ;)