Birthdays Smirthdays.

My birthday was March 1st. How old am I now, you ask? 27. I've got 3 more years until the big 3-0. What did I do to celebrate? Ate a load of mussels, a huge lobster and drowned my aging sorrows in large glasses of red sangria. Good thing I have a wonderful family to help me celebrate. I may need a lot of consoling 3 years from now! Ha! :-)

The flowers my daddy got me! If you know my dad, you know how huge this is. He rarely leaves the house without my mom and he most certainly doesn't go into the stores, especially without my mom's orders. He went to the store, by himself, on his own accord, because he thought to buy me flowers for my birthday. Best present ever. What is it with girls and their daddys? He'll always be so special to me. <3

Boppy's Special Adventure!

Two Saturdays ago, my folks went to go check out a boat in Hastings that they wanted to purchase for their lake. It was a gorgeous day, so Ryan said "Hurry up, let's go with them and enjoy the day!" ....So we hopped into the Enclave and out for a drive. Easton kept insisting we were on a trip and our trip then turned into an adventure of going to different restaurants (none of which met our standards, so we up and left! Ha!) and ended up at Founders (hate the atmosphere, loved our sandwiches....). It was just a fun day of laughs and the unexpected, definitely a great way to beat the winter blues! So we decided we would do this every Saturday until the weather got nicer.

So, last week my dad decided our special adventure for that coming Saturday should be a big surprise for Easton! So he planned for us to take a snowy drive to Grand Haven to see the Pere Marquette train, it is a beautiful old steam engine that has been restored and sits in a park near the water. When we drove up, Easton was in awe and exclaimed, "POLAR EXPRESS!" It was very magical for the little man! <3>

Easton was SO excited to see "The Polar Express" <3

He couldn't stop talking about, he just chattered away....

Easton asked to touch it, he had to get his hands on this train, so we snuck in! ;-)

Easton and his best buddy, Boppy!!!!

Looking inside the train....

My dad kept pointing out all of the features in the train that you also can see in the movie "The Polar Express" which made this experience even cooler for E-toe!

The caboose!

Oh puh-lease, get a room you two!

Dad, not sharing his dessert. He seriously didn't share. My mom had to lick the plate to get even just a taste. ;-P