As a fun family outing to celebrate Gracie's birthday, we went to Fairyland in Oakland. It was a beautiful, warm (but not too warm) Sunday and everyone had a wonderful time. So thankful to Nana for the great suggestion... it was a perfect day for Gracie.
(It can be really difficult to plan a party for Gracie as her health is so fragile and unpredictable. We decided that we'd do a family outing that she'd enjoy instead of hosting a party that could, quite easily, fall right in the middle of a migraine cycle for her. It wouldn't be about her if we were having a big shindig that she couldn't/wouldn't enjoy or would cause her undue stress!)
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Our beautiful birthday girl!
Gracie thoroughly enjoyed all of the varieties of plants, shrubs, flowers and trees at Fairyland. She spent a ton of time inspecting leaves and flowers as we strolled through the many gardens on the property. |
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| Hilarious to me... Preston was being a ham after watching me take a gazillion pictures of Gracie with a dandelion in the parking lot before we'd even entered the park. |
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All three kids loved the old, small carousel.
Gavin is not pictured as I couldn't manage to hold him and take a picture at the same time! |
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Snippets of the Gav-man enjoying Gracie's birthday outing.
It just so happens that the baby girl in the top left picture shares the same birthday as him. Gavin was trying so hard to talk to her about the "mama" aka, Snow White. He was adorable looking at the various character and animal statues. |
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Gracie enjoyed the magic show for about ten minutes. Unfortunately, the first ten minutes were mostly really corny jokes and, by the time the action started, she had totally lost interest. Preston, however, had a blast. I'm not sure who had more fun, Preston watching the magic show or John and I watching him while he watched the show.
At one point he terrified us by moving seats when the man was about to juggle "blades" and told the kids in the front row to watch out for their lives. He moved so fast that it took us about three minutes to realize where he had gone... still near the front, but way over to the side! LOL! He LOVED the juggling and fire-eating. His facial expressions were priceless!!
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| 'Nuff said. We have to get better about making sure we are in pics with the kids! |
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| A picture is worth a thousand words... so here are several thousand about how much our girlie loved her special day! |
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| Gavin... all smiles with rocks in his pockets, rocks in his hands, rocks in his mouth... that about sums up what's going on anytime he is outside right now. Well, that and one of his brother's hats if he can get his hands on one! |
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| If it can be climbed up and jumped off, Preston will find it! |
