Happy Birthday Ben!

We were quite busy around Ben's birthday trying to decide what the near future would hold in terms of employment, but we did make time to celebrate a little. We've hit the point in our lives where birthdays are now geared towards what our children would like to do to celebrate.  Birthday's start to get a little dull as you get older anyway, so we hit up the petting zoo at Thanksgiving Point again and Norah just could not get enough of the animals.  She was feeding the baby goats straw from the ground, but would flinch and freak out just a bit every time their lips touched her fingers.  We couldn't pull her away from it though, she loves animals and can tell you what every farm animal says.

 

I didn't have time to make Ben a cheesecake this year, in fact my pans were even packed away.  We bought a cheesecake from the store instead; I owe him one.  And then the 2nd reason why we are missing being near family, we were lucky enough to have my mom babysit while Ben and I went to dinner and a movie.  We finally saw the last Harry Potter, and dined at Costa Vida.  Oh how we are missing our Costa Vida's, Cafe Rio's, Training Table, Rhumbi, etc.  C'mon Washington, get with it will ya?!

 Happy Birthday Benjo!!