Happy Birthday Chris!

Even though it's tough around here these days with Grandma gone and everyone hurting I wanted to make sure Chris still had a good birthday. He turned 31 this year (Finley was a nice 30th birthday gift, right?) and it was his first birthday as a dad - so very exciting. Even better? It fell on my day off so we could do something as a family.

We woke up this morning and read the book "It's My Birthday" to Finley. I am thinking that may be a tradition we start for each family member on their birthday. Such a sweet book! We then met up with Chris later at his office and took him to lunch at Miller's Grocery - yum! Let me tell you, that was a fabulous idea (way to go birthday boy!) because it was somewhere different and was pretty much elderly people eating lunch and us, so having Finley there was no biggie. He did great, of course, just sitting in my lap while I ate. He even let Chris put him to sleep while we were there after I tried to for what seemed an eternity :) After lunch we went back to Chris' office and hung out for the rest of the afternoon. It was so nice to spend time with Chris on his special day while he got some work done. So very thankful for the Lord's provision in our lives that's allowed me to work part time.

That night we had Shannon, Michael, and Ellie Grace over for a very low key dinner. We ordered pizza and Shannon brought a delicious cookie cake. Ellie Grace just played and played and Finley did his typical eat, play, sleep routine which was just fine for us :)

All in all it was a wonderful time of celebrating Chris - the amazing husband, father, brother, son, and friend that he is. Cheers to 31!