Linnea Turned 2!

I can't believe I'm a mom to a 4 1/2 year old and a 2 year old.  I don't know where the time went.  Linnea's birthday party was Cookie Monster themed.  She loves Cookie Monster (and cookies).  The cake was really fun to decorate and only took me half an hour.  Emma's Sesame Street cake that I did for her second birthday took me 7 hours!  The kids had a lot of fun running around the backyard, coloring with sidewalk chalk and eating cake and ice cream.  I made English Muffin pizzas for lunch and they had blue milk to drink with it.  The blue milk was a big hit.  For the decorations I bought some balloons off of Ebay (A big Cookie Monster, 2 chocolate chip cookie balloons and some blue and brown balloons) and had the local party store fill them, put up blue and white streamers and blew up 50 blue and white balloons and had them all over the floor.  Then since Linnea was only turning 2 her friends came over and they just played in the backyard.  Super low key and easy.  Happy Birthday Linnea!

In other news, work has slowed WAY down for Jacob and it's not looking very good for the rest of the year.  Lucky for us though there is work up in Northern British Columbia on a copper mine and so he will be heading up there to work.  We aren't quite sure how long he will be up there (he thinks between 2 and 4 weeks) and how long he will be home in between his off days but we are just thankful that he will be working.  We've done this before so I kind of know what to expect and I am having a hard time complaining because it's work and we need it.  The only thing that really sucks is we were going to run a sprint triathlon together on the 2nd of July and now he won't be here to race with me.  He is my major support through this whole thing so I've taken a bi emotional hit with that.  But in the end I think it will be good for me to race it without him.  It will prove to me that I can do it.  I just really wish he was going to be there.  We were going to stick together during the race and that was a big comfort to me.  I will just have to get over my fear now.