Monday, October 27, 2008

Tatum is TWO!!!

I can't believe Tatum is TWO today!!! My how time flies! I will be taking pictures of her tonight when we give her presents from us, but I wanted to go ahead and post pictures from her birthday party that we had this weekend. These pictures are VERY out of order, but I am too lazy to fix them....warning, there are TONS of pics!

We rented a bouncer for her party and it was the BEST money spent for sure. The kids LOVED it!
Here is my niece, Mckayla, diving out of the bouncer...

Mckayla, Tatum, Natalie, Avery, and Avery's dad...
My dad, Mya, Laurie, and Mckayla eating some food...
Natalie, Tatum, and Avery....These girls go to school with Tatum
Some of the others eating lunch...
A picture of the set up during the party.
Ashley and her kids, Camryn and Coleman...
Me, Tatum, and Antonio getting ready to light the candles...
Tatum looking at her cupcake while we all sang to her...
Tatum about to dive in!
I think it is safe to say she liked the icing...
more?
me and my sister, Laurie...
Me helping Tatum open her presents...
me, Tatum, Katie, and Gabby...
Chris, Benardo, Robert(Antonio's dad), Amanda, and Eliana(Antonio's sister)...
Laurie, Mya, and Brandy...
more presents....
Mckayla, my niece...
my dad, Laurie, Brandy, and Cyp(bro in law)...
opening presents....Jennifer was writing down everything for us...
Eliana, Tim, and Camryn...
Antonio and his sister, Eliana...
Tatum playing with her Elmo slippers...
Eating Cheetos...
Tatum and Natalie(notice Tatum's eyes are glued to Natalie's candy)...
Tatum giving Mya a hug...
This next picture is Tatum before the party. Antonio and I went out early to set up everything and Tatum was awake, so she joined us in her PJs with her milk.
The food table minus the hotdogs...(chips, pretzels, animal crackers, fruit chews, and goldfish)
Goodie bag table....the cake went in the center...
Tatum trying to put 2 fingers up....my mom was helping her...
Tatum's "2" fingers....she is having a little trouble, but will get it soon...
Tables before the party....
Bouncer before the party.....aka...the biggest hit at the party
2 Craft tables before the party...
One of Tatum's cakes(I ordered 2 because I thought we would need both, but we took a whole one home)
I managed to knock part of this cupcake off and thought this little pumpkin looks bald on top...
Mackenzie coming out of the bouncer...
Jeremey and Sydney...
Katie coming out sideways from the bouncer....
Avery coming out...
Tatum keeping an eye on everyone/everything...
Perms and Antonio...
Tatum talking to Nicki and Sydney...
Tatum in the bouncer...
Ashes, ashes, they all fall down!!
Afton...
Some of the parents watching their kids jumping...

Mya...
My mom walking with Mya to the bouncer...

Tim and Jennifer were such BIG HELPS with Tatum's party! They came over early to help set up things and they were in charge of the hot dogs...they were YUMMY!!! A HUGE thanks to you both and I can't wait to help out with your little one's birthday parties in the future!











You know the party is over when the bouncer goes down and gets packed up...











Ashley and Jennifer
















Afton giving Tatum a goodbye hug. He goes to school with Tatum too.










As you can see, Tatum's party was a blast! There were 17 kids there and I think 46 total people. I managed to not get pictures of several people that were there, but I am hoping that when I get other pictures taken by people there, that maybe some have captured the ones that I missed. Taking pictures at parties is hard when you are trying to do everything else!
I LOVED planning this party and it was fairly easy since we had it at Antonio's parent's house(no cleaning for me, we did easy food(all individually packaged except hot dogs). It was worth all the work to see Tatum and all of her friends and family having a blast.
It would not have been possible to do this party without everyone's help! Thank you to everyone that came early to set up, stayed late to clean up, or anything else. I appreciate all of you!
I will try to post more pictures from her party later and also more pics that we take tonight.

3 comments:

Milton, Alesa and Addyson said...

Everything looks great!!! Good idea with the bouncer!! Hope Tatum has a great day today! Happy Birthday, Tatum!!

Kimberly said...

Happy Birthday, Tatum! Your party looked awesome as expected!!!
You outdid yourself, mom! And you don't even look preggo at all in these pics!
Love that lil' Pumpkin bday gal!!!

The Duff Family said...

Happy Birthday, Tatum!!! This is when I hate living in Nashville and missing all of the fun parties.