The Dirkes Family: Happy Birthday to Ellie...and it's SNOWING!

It is amazing how fast time flies... Our little "beanie" is 2 years old!

December 19, 2007

December 19, 2009

Ellie was VERY happy to see us this morning. She was jumping in her crib when we walked in. Happy Birthday Ellie! You are 2!

Her birthday started with her present from us: a ball pit! She loves jumping and balls so it is a perfect match.

What a wonderful experience for the girls! We have been hearing about this huge storm approaching the east coast and figured we would miss out as usual. Well, we didn't! I think D.C. is getting it worse than us, but this is a fun amount of snow rather than dangerous. I feel a little cheated but the girls can't play in 2 feet of snow...they did great in 6 inches though!

After breakfast full of pancakes, strawberries,and whipped cream, we got bundled up in what we have for snow and headed outside. Both girls did REALLY well. We played for about 45 minutes; far longer than we expected.

We are ready!

We built a sled run first...

Ellie was kind of a lump and wanted us to move her everywhere. Once Mom taught her how to eat the snow she liked it a lot more...you know Beanie; she loves to eat!

We built a snowman last. Apples for eyes, a potato nose, and olives for the mouth. Not traditional but you use what you have. It came out pretty well!

A half hour before we were to go pick up Ellie's cake, the bakery called and said due to weather they would not have a cake ready for me that day or even the day after...we all know how well that went over in this house...What is a birthday without a very special cake? So, we had to improvise...mom and dad went into cake decorating mode and this is what we came up with. Not too bad for scrounging things together last minute and end the end our birthday girl was very pleased with her cake and that is what is most important.