Pictures from Henry's Second Birthday Bash

Henry had a great birthday.  He woke up from his nap and saw the balloon bouquet and was lovin' life! He ran around the house with the balloons for over an hour! About 5 minutes before the party started Gracie jumped up on the table and licked part of the cake. I screamed at her.  Kind of shocked Henry...he told EVERY guest about it when they came in the house! :)  Luckily it was just a corner...I was tempted to give that part to my "dog-lovin'" sis in law, Anita. :) He was a bit overwhelmed by all the gifts, but had a great time.  He got lots of cars and trucks, a new bed spread for his bed (when we get there - really a gift for Mom!), a duffle bag with play weights and sports gear, a Diego truck (which Abigail promptly took to her room), Thomas bath toys and a couple other fun things.  He didn't want to eat his cake until ALL of his cars (except his big Tonka truck) were on his high-chair tray...my little obsessive child. :) Overall it was a fun day/night...and a great birthday!

Silver Lake Sunday

 We had a great time at Silver lake on Sunday.  We went up there with my mom, Brad and Rebecca.  We started the day by stopping for cherry turnovers and strudel.  It's SO good and something we have had forever (at least 20 years)! The turnovers were gone before we got back in the car. We then went on a dune ride.  Henry loved riding in the dune scooter, but wasn't quite as sure about all the sand (he HATES sand!). When the driver drove just a bit into Lake Michigan we all got wet...the splash hit Henry right in the face!:)  After the dune rides we went to the State Park and did a little swimming.  Abigail was in the water forever!  Henry preferred to sit on his towel chilling out.  We then went on bumper boats, fed the ducks and had ice cream.  The kids were SO tired by the end of the day, especially Henry since he didn't get a nap.  Notice the glazed look in the ice cream pic?

 

Blueberry Picking Pictures

Here are the pictures of blueberry picking that I promised...

Happy Birthday, Henry!

It's Henry's birthday! He's 2 today- yeah! Here are two pictures of him two years ago...

Wasn't he the cutest baby? Gotta love the perfect heads of those C-section babies! :)

It's also a little hard to believe that Abigail was only 23 months there...loving her brother up there...yeah right!

Tonight will be a family party - pizza, cake and a Thomas the Tank Engine theme. Can't wait!

I'll try to post more soon...I have lots of pictures to catch up on...blueberry picking, Silver Lake and soon enough birthday pics.

15.55!!

As I type, my feet are in an ice bath. :) At 10:00 this morning my mom, Kristina (a friend also doing the 3 Day) and I took off from dowtown Holland and started walking. We walked to the State Park and stopped for lunch. Then we were off again...walking back to downtown. It was a total of 15.55 miles and it felt GREAT! Yeah, I'm sore. Yeah, my feet hurt, it's going to be hard to get up after I have been sitting, yeah I'm going to sleep like a rock tonight...but it felt great! It was a great accomplishment to successfully complete this part of my training. This is the longest walk I will do before the 3 Day and it felt great to be able to do it!

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The rest of the weekend will hopefully be a little more calm. :) I took tonight off so Colin and I are going to take the kids downtown to the concert in the park. Maybe I'll talk Colin into picking up dinner and bringing it there. Tomorrow is work for Colin during the day and work for me at night. Sunday will be another fun day...we're planning on going to Silver Lake. We are going to take the kids on the dune rides since they have never been on one before. We love Silver Lake (Colin and I got engaged up there) and it holds lots memories that we will love passing on to our kids.

Okay...time for some advil...have a great weekend!