Birthday Week Post #1

We have two birthdays this week, Daddy's was this past weekend.  These are the last in our little family of spring babies for 2011, made all the more meaningful by the prospect that these will be the last that we spend together as we are now.  Though recent events certainly cast a heavy shadow, I think we all enjoyed the day.  It was a day when we all felt good, laughed and played, and we even managed to capture some cute moments.  What a gift it was.

 The Grands were here to share it with us...

 Daddy, C & H enjoy the view of Great Falls on the MD side, we've had a lot of rain lately so the water was quite high...

 C seemed to enjoy the rushing water...

 Daddy and H enjoy the view from the look out trail...

 H hitches a ride with Grandpa...

 Big smiles...

 H in her Ming Ming shoes...

 Clapping...

 High 5...

 Showing rocks to Grandma...

Rock hunting...

 "It's on your head!"  This is one of C's favorite games, he'll put something on his head and wait for us to notice and exclaim, big smiles and laughter ensue....

 Shake, shake, shake!  He played with us this way during most of the car ride home...

 Late lunch following our walk from Joe's Noodle House in Rockville, MD...

Birthday cake, "Huggs" from Victoria's Cakery...

During our walk we saw another family affected by pediatric brain cancer wearing their Race for Hope shirts, and also ran into another family who walked near us and actually remembered C from the race, what a small world...