Happy Birthday Sam!

How did this...



...turn into this...??



Today my darling boy turned 9. What wonderful years these have been. He is such a great kid.

Happy Birthday Sam!!!

Today the kids and I met up with my friend Jen V and three of her four wonderful children at Chinguacousy Park. She is such a great person and so sweet. Our children played at the park together for awhile then we hit the petting zoo.

We saw goats...





These goats were much nicer than the freaky and aggressive ones that Jules and I saw when we went to Downey's Farm awhile back. These ones didn't put their dirty feet on me or beg for food. I couldn't believe how they would just stand there while kids poked and pulled them.

I wasn't aware that rabbits were considered a farm animal, but when I mentioned this to a few friends they all said that this is very common. I still think it's weird.



While we were talking about rabbits on farms, one of these aforementioned friends said that a peacock isn't a farm animal either. I wonder why its there then. Oh well. It sure was lovely to look at.





This is all this dude did the entire time we were there.



After the petting zoo we headed over to the splash pad for an hour, then home again. I dropped the children off at home and went over to my mother's for a short visit. As soon as I saw my aunt I realized that I had completely forgotten her birthday yesterday. I felt about an inch big.

As it was Sam's birthday, he chose where we would go for dinner. Personally, I was hoping for Kelsey's or Montanas but he chose McDonald's. What IS it with kids and McDonald's???

So....there it is.



One of my earliest memories of my childhood was of McD's. Whenever we saw the "M" my sister and I would start chanting over and over and over "I see the M... I see the M..."

How my mother managed to not lean back and swat us to shut us up I will never know.



I wanted a nice picture of us together but Sam wasn't in the mood for it and kept being silly. I was scolding him in this shot.



Ahh.. this will do.



Ian took this one of me to show me what I look like when I'm scolding them.



Whatever. Doesn't my hair look nice?



Take that, Ian.

My beautiful Julie...



Don't know quite what Jordan was thinking about here...



Instead of having yet another birthday cake (it would be his 4th!) we went to Dairy Queen for ice cream then headed home.

One of Sam's gifts was a remote controlled dude-on-a-4-wheeler-thing that Ian picked out. Actually, Ian pretty much buys all the children's gifts for birthdays and Christmas. I'm always very interested when they open their gifts to see what I got them. Here they were at 10:40 pm playing with it.





Everyone is now in bed and I'm on my way, later than I wanted to be. As usual.