Happy Birthday Andrew!!

We decided to kick off Andrew's birthday with some icecream cake on Friday night. We knew that since Kathi and Cody were watching our kids for us Saturday/Sunday that we wouldn't be able to have cake together on his birthday. What I didn't realise was how into birthdays and parties Davey is already.

He was so excited and wanted to decorate and plan games and turn it into a huge party. Unfortunately I was completely un prepared for that!! So, we may just have to surprise Andrew with another party later this week. After all, it IS a big birthday :)

Despite this picture, neither kid liked the ice cream cake. Gonna have to remember that for their birthdays!!

Saturday morning and Andrew's eating his requested chocolate chip pancake breakfast. And holding a baby....Andrew? Are you saying you want another baby for your birthday?? Not sure how I feel about that...!!

After breakfast we headed to Fort Langley for a stroll and lunch. We stopped at an old favorite - spill the beans on glover road. Like all things, STB has changed, and it's not quite the same. Still, you'd have to be pretty lame to ruin a grilled cheese sandwich!



Then it was off to the Lyths' house to get rid of our kids.


And off to Richmond to visit Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware and...

OPUS! YEA!!!

Truly one of the highlights of our day :)

But what was that white stuff falling from the sky??

HAIL?!? bizarre!

We stopped at the Richmond Ikea (totally disappointing. Their customer service is NON existent. Seriously. In the past five years or so, every time I've gone there I've been very disappointed with their staff.) then it was off to South Surrey for dinner at the Cactus Club.

We had been talking about the weather forecast and how Mark M had said it was going to be dry Saturday afternoon. That got us on to a whole conversation about Global's Meteorologist. So how funny was it that when we got to Cactus Club, Mark Madryga was sitting in the bar!!

Faced with an hour wait to get into the restaurant, we decided to wait for a couple of chairs in the bar. It still took about 1/2 hour, but we finally landed a table which was actually quite far away from the bar and very comfy. Andrew had the whiskey jack ribs and I had Chicken Teryaki Rice Bowl. YUM. Totally worth the wait.