Birthday Weekend

This weekend, Graham helped me celebrate my birthday! The entire weekend was picture perfect fall weather so we took the opportunity on Saturday to visit a pumpkin patch. This wasn't your average pumpkin patch though. This one was complete with pony rides, camel rides, petting zoo, multiple playgrounds for children, hayrides, restaurants, berry picking, apple picking...really, the list of activities goes on an on! We all enjoyed ourselves so much that we're thinking it might become our fall family ritual. It was very crowded though, and we did laugh to ourselves at the thought of navigating that place with a double stroller next year!

Graham's first pony ride. I know he looks afraid, but I promise he's not. He was actually very irritated when he ride came to an end.



In order to get to the actual pumpkin patch we took a ride on a wagon pulled by a giant tractor. Here is Graham watching the tractor as it began to move.

We didn't want to be responsible for carrying a giant pumpkin and a toddler so we decided we would bring home a pumpkin that Graham was able to pick up himself. Despite Graham's valiant attempt, this pumpkin was not meant to come home with us.

Success!

Pumpkin vines are a great form of entertainment!

Graham helped me blow out the candle on my birthday cheesecake.


In our family, we really like to celebrate birthday's. In fact, it's the norm for the birthday individual to claim the week around their birthday as their 'Birthday Week'. Initially, Jeff thought this was a crazy tradition, but it wasn't long before he was claiming his 'Birthday Week' as well. In fact, his 'Birthday Week' starts today! To conclude my 'Birthday Week', we had dinner with my parents and Peter and Lynn. Uncle Peter and Auntie Lynn know how much Graham loves trucks, and they had quite the surprise for him....3 miniature construction vehicles or 'Dumpa Dumpa' (dump drunk in Graham's language) as he calls them. He was one happy little guy!

Nothing is better than new trucks!

Graham's reaction to a certain piece of paper that Uncle Peter had with him has us all cracking up! If anyone has questions about what exactly was on this piece of paper, you'll need to go directly to the source and ask Peter.....:)

The sugar high from dessert is on its way...

Chocolate cake puts Graham is a very good mood!