Buckle Up and Hang On

Around here, we take our weekends seriously.  Our motto is, "If one activity is good, then four must be better!"  And since it happened to be somebody's birthday weekend (I'm not naming any names, but she is just thrilled to be turning 29), we felt the need to crank it up a little more. 

So, when Gram and Deedaddy arrived last Friday at 4:45, we warned them to put their running shoes on because the weekend was starting and there was fun to be had.  And fifteen minutes later, the birthday girl was out the door to get her birthday pampering at the spa (thanks, Nana and Putty!).  G & D (as the pair will henceforth be known in this post) entertained Walt until Josh arrived home to usher the whole group downtown, where they met up with the newly refreshed birthday girl for some fish tacos and a trolley ride.

The next morning, while Josh spent some time prepping for his big trial that started on Monday, Walt, G & D, and I all headed over to the zoo.  It was an unseasonably cool day, which made the animal viewing actually pleasant (unlike the other days in the summer when I just make a mad dash to the polar bear house and try to convince Walt that they really are the most interesting inhabitants of the zoo).  Walt does like the animals . . .

. . . but he's just as entertained by standing water.

Some shots from the butterfly house . . .

Of course, the whole point of the morning's excursion to the zoo was to get him tired enough to take an early nap so that we could make it to Rock 'n Romp that afternoon.  RnR this month was held in a backyard so big that was easy to lose track of a 30-pound kid.  So it was nice to have four more eyes (those belonging to G & D) also on the lookout for a toddler wielding a large drumstick.

Though we were all a bit worn out after all the rocking and romping we did, we forged on, since it was only 5:00 and there were still plenty of good hours left in the Saturday.  Walt, G & D headed out to Boscos for dinner on the patio (Gram tells me ate this entire pizza himself) while the birthday girl and her date went downtown for a nice birthday dinner.

After church Sunday morning, we finished up the weekend with a birthday brunch (since, although I'd been celebrating for days already, it was my actual birthday).  We bid adieu to G & D, and Walt and I settled down for a nice afternoon nap, while Daddy worked on his opening statement.  Sometimes it's tough fitting all that fun into just one weekend, but when they only give you two days, you gotta make 'em count!