Happy Birthday To Me!

Yes, it's my birthday and although the passing along of Grant's stomach flu to various family members including myself have thwarted our party plans, my boys have still treated me to a very lovely birthday weekend. And God did his part as well by allowing for 70 degree weather with blue skies and sunshine. Heavenly!

We spent most of our day yesterday at the Dallas Arboretum....

And the first thing your baby self has to do when you get onto the big, wide-open grounds....

...is run....

...and run...

...and fall....

...and run...

...and run some more.

And after all that running then there's time to smell the roses...errr whatever these are...

And maybe meet Ferdinand the Bull made out of some grasses and flowers. Grant was not especially impressed but I thought it was neat.


There are several water features on the grounds and of course Grant always wants to get wet!

And for our sweet friend Kari who loves tulips....they were beautiful!

And some real, live "fishies" at which Grant yelled "Hi fishies!" a million time as we sat and watched them swim.

There was lots of live music being played all over the park which is a HUGE draw for our little guy.


Grant loves, loves, loves the little kid-sized benches they have all over...


And this is the only picture of the 3 of us which obviously was not Grant's idea of a good time....



And then we saw this statue of a boy and girl which we were kind of confused about...

Grant had to check them out from every angle....Are they real?

But he finally decided they were friendly and gave them a wave and a "hi kids"!



Yep, it was a good day! :)