Birthday Weekend

Last week was Jamie's 30th birthday, so we did the usual celebration stuff...

Cake time with Twin Amy!

Hanging with Grandpa

How awesome is this baseball wreath?!
Amy made it for Jamie!

Birthday lunch with Daddy...
clearly having a great time

We went to the Tigers game on his birthday and then again on Thursday afternoon.  Our cousin Donna hooked up Bishop Foley with 100 free tickets to the game, so we had to go!  We took Maggie and while we made it all 9 innings, it was soooo much effort.  She had a great time, and even took her first ferris wheel ride!

Go Tigers!

Hanging out with Donna and Pat in the comfy seats!

Us 3 girls cheering on the team

Ferris wheel = Amazing!

Jamie clearly had a great birthday week, but I had a few tricks up my sleeve still.  A few months ago I told him that I was asked to speak at a seminar in Albany, NY and thought it would be more fun if he came with me.  So we flew out on Friday morning and were waiting to be picked up by "Eric."  Instead our good friends Andy and Katie were there to pick us up for a weekend of Jamie's favorites.  We went to Ommegang brewery on Friday afternoon and the Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday.  We rented a really great house for the weekend, and spent the rest of our time hanging out, eating way too much and relaxing.  It was so nice to get away for a weekend and spend some time with my man!  Jamie said it was the most surprised he's every been!

Cheers from Ommegang!

Beautiful river in Cooperstown

Maggie stayed with Grandma and Grandpa all weekend.  She was a good girl most of the time, but had some rough nights because of her molars.  We missed her so much, and it was great to come home and snuggle with her a little bit before bedtime.

Maggie really loves to have conversations.  She seems to have a whole new level of gibberish lately, and is very emphatic about her talking points.  I have no idea what she's talking about, but it seems pretty intense!

I think we are starting to head towards terrible-two territory.  Though not often, she has total meltdowns over silly things and it takes a while to calm her down.  Yesterday I went outside with her to play before dinner, and we spent about 20 minutes walking around the yard and climbing the deck steps.  Then I told her it was time to go inside, which resulting in much wailing and gnashing of teeth.  It took about 5 minutes to stop the crying and another 10 minutes to get her to start eating dinner.  It's really hard not to chuckle sometimes because she can be so incredibly dramatic and her face is so cute when she sticks out her bottom lip.  So far the only way to get her out of a tantrum is to make her laugh... so I'm working on my stand-up routine.

I don't have a naughty bone in my body!