Birthday Ben

Saturday, the 16th, was  Ben's birthday!! I LOVE Birthday's and I was WAY more excited than Ben about his upcoming happy day.  The night before was like Christmas Eve for me.  As he slept dreaming of sugar plum fairies and catching up on the missed sleep of the week, I lie awake too excited to sleep and ready to get the birthday festivities under way!

I tried to let him sleep as long as I possibly could on Saturday morning before I rolled over and yelled {in a quiet morning voice} HAPPY BIRTHDAY as soon as he was showing motions of life I dragged him down the stairs for birthday surprises.  The birthday flag banner wasn't much of a surprise since he watched me make it on Friday night and kept asking, "What are you doing? What is that thing?"  He got my standard response when I am not divulging secrets, "Oh nothing."

I made pillow cookies for Birthday Ben.  They are GINORMOUS and full of sugary birthday goodness. They are a must try... recipe HERE.

 Each chocolate chip cookie has a brownie inside.  These things are so decadent that you can cut the cookie into 4 pieces and still feel a sugar high.  Ben loved a cookie filled birthday breakfast.  Kids: Don't try this at home.

Ah, the cute birthday boy and what he called, "The Ben Shrine".... I suppose it kinda was

While I taught my running class on Saturday afternoon, Ben spent the day with his Mom helping take care of their beautiful property and getting it ready for some nice weather this week.

And, of course, getting the tractor stuck in the mud.  They had to pull the tractor out of the mud twice with the truck.  Once almost sliding right into the pond... for Ben that would have been the happiest birthday in history.  

Saturday night we celebrated with some friends at dinner at Claim Jumper.  Dan and Shannon got Ben an awesome bumper sticker for his birthday reminding us how AWESOME it is to have us live in Washington! 

I tried my best not to let anyone leave before taking a group picture.  Somehow Craig, Jesyca and Heather escaped my obsessive picture taking prison!  Thanks for joining us everyone, we had a great time!

Birthday's should NEVER only last one day.  The festivities continued on Sunday with a fun family dinner, presents and entertainment from Hanna and Hayden which is sure to always be a good time!

Ben is so loved and got so many texts, calls, blog posts and cards from wonderful friends and family wishing him a very happy day.  Thank you everyone for your love.

Happy Birthday Sweetheart! I hope it was fabulous!