Ben's Day!

All week, we've been telling Ben that his birthday is on Saturday. Even though it was yesterday, we pretended like it was today so that Joel and I could have the whole day with him to shower him with Birthday Love. We had the perfect day! We decided to keep it low key and just spend the day together doing fun things as a family. When he woke up, Joel and I walked into his room singing happy birthday. Then we came downstairs for pancakes with candles.

After breakfast, we opened a few presents (we planned to spread them throughout the day). Joel and I got him a tball and 2 different baseball bats, which were a hit (no pun intended)! 

We played around for a while then headed to Old McDebbie's Farm. Joel took Ben a few weeks ago, but I had never been. It was so fun! Ben was more interested in all their play toys and the water pump than he was in the animals, but that's ok! 

The farm has a U-Fish pond, so we gave it a try. Ben thought he was supposed to put the pole IN the water, tip down. But, we still managed to get a fish every single time we cast our line. Luckily, the fish almost always got free, otherwise we would have been bringing home a bunch of fish. We ended up bringing two home. Ben wasn't scared of the fish at all! He even watched the lady gut the fish and got to see the heart beat (sorry to any vegetarian friends). 

After the farm, we went out to lunch. He was being so silly. I love that little face! 

 

We came home and Ben went down for a late nap. I finished making his cake and then I took a nice, long nap while Joel went for a run. I can't remember the last time I had a nap!! I felt like I was on vacation! As soon as Ben woke up from nap, we sang happy birthday and enjoyed some cake. He ate some, but we told him we had a special surprise in the garage, so he was happy to ditch the cake. 

Joel and I decided to get Ben a trampoline for his bday. It's a small, child's trampoline. Ben was so excited! It's so cute watching his solid little body jump and fall and bounce. He was all sweaty by the time he was done! After bouncing for a while, we opened a few more presents and had dinner. I made veggie fajitas. I was trying to take a picture of the meal, but I noticed that Ben stole the cheese in the 1 second it took for me to look at the camera :)

We couldn't have asked for a more special day! It was so fun to just focus on Ben and not worry about anything else. We need to make more reasons to have days like this! My soul is happy after so much quality time with my family.