Happy Birthday to Me!!!

The big 2-9

I am another year older and another year wiser now. What a great day it was today. First of all it was Saturday so there was nothing to interrupt the birthday fun. We planned to make a whole day of it and that is just what we did. After sleeping in we opened presents and ate pancakes. Finally we got ready to go. The plan was to take the train to Salt Lake and then Trax up to Rodizio's for lunch. I was a little worried when we had to wait 1/2 hour for the train in the pouring rain to start out on our adventure. Max's little hands were so red from the cold... But it didn't even dent our day of fun. The kids LOVED the train. They could walk around, go upstairs, change seats and everything. Instead of being strapped down in the car seats. They loved Trax too because it would stop and go so much and they would get pushed around by the constant movement if they were standing by their seats instead of sitting. Lunch was so yummy at one of our favorite restaurants. We even liked walking around downtown too. The weather turned to our favor just in time for our walks. And Gavin did so great considering he was in his car seat for almost the entire 6 hours we were gone today. Max didn't have a nap and still had a happy face all day long. (That always scares me a little when they can go a full day without a nap. Does that mean naps are coming to an end in the near future? I'm so not ready...)

Sophie and Peter had a great time while I was changing the babies in the restroom. It was near the escalator and Rich was out watching them. They would ride it together up to the top and come back down again over and over. Well, almost that easy. Peter would go up and then get stuck because he was afraid to come down. So they'd go up together, then Sophie would come down and Rich would ride up to get Peter and they would come down together. Too funny.

The kids loved all the free time and quality time with mom and dad today. Me too. What a great day.

Thank you all for your emails, comments, phone calls and everything. And I finally got to talk to my mom late tonight. After 5 attempts between the two of us she finally got to sing me birthday wishes just before going to bed. You can't have a birthday without talking to your mom! I love you!