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

2nd Annual "Work if Overrated Day"

Hehe!

Last year, we decided work was really overrated and decided to hit the slopes out in Rockford at Pando and go snow tubing and then we warmed up by the fire at Bluewater Grill. We had so much fun last year, we decided we HAD to do it again! This year did not disappointed! We had just as much fun as last year! The only thing that would have made it better was if my brother could have joined us! Unfortunately, work is not as overrated for him right now! Ha! :-)

The "Fab Five" going down the face!

Easton wasn't having any fun....see? :-)

Daddy and the Toe

Mom-mom and little dude!

He was having a BAWL!

Ryan being a show off.

Daddy being a show off

Mom being a show off....and everyone wonders why Easton has the be the center of attention? LOL, it certainly isn't from ME!

My parents are beyond lovely. I love them more than words. There is nothing else I can say, words pale in comparison to how amazing they are. They are the best, honestly, there are no better people on the planet.

Guess who was sick of having his picture taken? We have to work on that, when he's famous he has to learn how to look happy for the paparazzi, you know! :-)

Easton's 3rd Birthday!

I am really late in posting Easton's birthday pictures! I am so sorry, I am going to do a better job at staying up to date!

On Saturday, January 8 (E's birthday is January 9) we had a great party for him! Easton chose Disney Pixar's "Cars" as his birthday theme (his favorite movie!) and so we had a theme "A Day at the Races" for his party and it was a blast!

Thanks to everyone who made this such a special day for our little critter, he had such a fun time! He was one happy little party animal!

Some of the decor, complete with kettle corn goody bags for guests!

Eating race food! :-)

The Lightning McQueen pinata before all of the kids tried to slap that silly grin off his hood! :-)

The birthday boy giving it a good whack!

He had so much fun!

Opening presents! This one almost as big as he is! lol

This boy was so spoiled!!

He LOVES his pillow pet from Uncle Kolby!!!!

Emily showing Easton his new book from Boppy, it actually features E's favorite, "Lightning McQueen!" (Or has he called him, Wacka Feen) Ha! :-)

Doing his "excited arms" because we got him the Cars parking garage to go with his racetrack he got for Christmas!

The aftermath part 1.

The aftermath part #2. Easton was spoiled at all, was he!? lol!

Singing happy birthday to the sweetest little birthday boy ever!

His special "Car" birthday cake! <3 He LOVED IT!

So excited about his cake!

Blowing out the candles

Easton has such a special birthday! Making such amazing memories for this awesome little guy is what life is all about!!!!