My Birthday Celebration

Today we celebrated my birthday. My actual birthday was March 26th, but my surprise birthday activity was dependent upon the weather so we had to postpone because of all the rain we kept having. Thankfully today was a gorgeous spring day. We went to Furman and had a picnic lunch. We played on the practice football field where there was lots of room for Catherine and Will to run and play. They thought it was great! They also gave me my birthday presents. Jay did a great job planning a fun day for us.

I had lots of help opening my presents. Then Catherine kept "wrapping" up additional presents for me with the paper: a tennis ball, her purse, a princess ball. She thought that was great fun.

Will, the little linebacker, got a start on spring training with a few football drills. He has his golf club too; just in case football doesn't work out for him.

Catherine ran all day long. She ran up and down the entire football field 2 or 3 times during our picnic. Then she spotted the track right by it and wanted to go run. We went down there and she took off. We thought she would run for just a minute and then turn around and come back. But she ran the entire track!

When she got done with the first lap, she wanted me to run with her, so we did a full second lap. She says she wants to run a race (maybe a 1 mile this summer). We figured that she ran at least 3/4 of a mile today (in flip flops) and loved it. The cutest thing was when she stopped. Will had been running around too and I said, "everyone is panting." She replied, "but I'm wearing a skirt, mommy." Too cute.

It was a great day! I love my family!