Birthday Boy

We had a plan for Matt's birthday.  A great plan.  It is his spring break this week.  We were going to meet his family in Richmond yesterday for a family birthday party.  Then leave today for Baltimore.  The plan was to take Katie on her 1st real train ride, and then to the Baltimore Aquariam.  A good plan.  A good birthday.

And then....my work schedule got in the way.  I had to cancel our vacation.  I'll be traveling to 4 cities in 4 days (Roanoke, Nashville, Philly, Richmond, Roanoke).  Add in a winter storm brewing and I give it a 60% chance I'll get STUCK somewhere.  Meanwhile, Katie and Matt will be in Roanoke by themselves (not on our fun trip to Baltimore).  But, I'm not bitter.  I promise. 

Okay.  Moving on from that.  We made a new plan.  A family weekend in Roanoke, with special birthday fun for daddy.  Katie and I started the "project" of baking daddy's cake on Saturday.  We also made homemade icing...a first for both of us.  Who doesn't have memories of licking the mixer sticks when they were a kid?

On Sunday, we had a few family fun activities planned for the afternoon.  Then, Matt wanted to go out to Kabuki for dinner.  Katie was a little freaked out by the fact that her food was on fire at one point in the meal.  But, she thought it was pretty cool that the chef let Daddy catch shrimp in his mouth.  Also, I couldn't believe it -- but she ate her dinner with chopsticks.  After dinner, we came home for cake and presents. 



Despite the major change in plans, this weekend was wonderful.  It is SO rare that we have a full weekend of family time and I enjoyed every single minute of the last 2 days.  I just hope Matt enjoyed the weekend as much as I did.  We will have to make time in the coming weeks for a full family get together.