I'm thinking he looks wiser

Happy Birthday Keith!

Out to dinner last Friday.
Keith's parent's graciously accepted having Grant over for a sleepover so we could enjoy a night to ourselves 
(and a morning without waking up to an alarm clock or a kid). 

After we picked up Grant from his sleep over we went on a very short hike.
It was hot and my body was fighting me on this hike.
 Keith wanted to go all the way to the end of the trail.
No way sir!  Sorry.
There was a guy coming down the trail with a golf club.  He takes it with him to fend off rattle snakes.
He said he hadn't seen any that day, but saw two last week!  Not cool!

After this we went to a super yummy lunch at Crackers & Co.

Where's the car?

I decided to give Keith a little surprise dinner birthday party (a day early) after work yesterday.
I hurried around  in the afternoon and decorated the patio and made some yummy food.
 Keith's parents came over and we all had a fun time.

A fun game that Keith got from his parents.

And for his birthday dessert- banana cream pie.  Grant loved the candles.
You can see here that he's trying to blow them out before the birthday boy gets a chance.

Cinderella got her butt kicked

So I'm a couple weeks into my 2nd trimester and I've been feeling mostly good.  Not sick any more (hooray), just feeling the aches and pains that come with a growing belly.  I've been walking almost every morning and that has been such a nice start to the day.  The past couple days I've been so full of energy.  So this morning when Keith asked me what I was going to do for the day, I said, "I'm going to pretend to be Cinderella."  And then I listed off all of the things that I was going to do around the house.  But as soon as I was done eating breakfast I hit a wall.  I was so tired!  I slept on the couch for a couple hours while Grant ran wild.  During Grant's nap time I did get the bathrooms clean and the sheets and towels washed.  And then I called it quits.  I spent the rest of the day playing with Grant, and trying to take it as easy as I could.  I kept looking at the clock and couldn't wait for Grant's bed time.  I was so ready to be done for the day.  And now he's sleeping.  Sigh.  He really is so much fun.  We have quite the fun time together every day.  He is also soooooooo full of energy.  He loves to rough house, which is hard for me to do lately.  He also loves to have me toss him balls so he can hit them with his baseball bat.  I can handle that.  

Here's to a peaceful night, and an early bed time.  Night, night.

Running, running, running.

An Outing

Playing around in a practice bunker.

We went on a family golf outing Friday evening.  I drove the golf cart, which had two golf bags strapped onto the back... one for Keith, and a little one for Grant.  It was so cute to watch the boys golf together.  Keith would tee off and then Grant would hit a few balls from that point too.  Then Grant would stay in the cart with me until we got to the green and then he'd get out and putt around.  I tell you what, watch out for this kid.  He's obsessed with golf.  You'd probably think that we force it on him, or that we make him practice, but it's all him.  He practices on his own all the time.  I think it's just been built into his genes.