Birthday Party

This past weekend we headed up to Michigan to surprise my mom for her birthday. We had everything in place for her to arrive under false pretenses to her party, people there to yell surprise, and a scrapbook filled with birthday wishes and fun memories. Our plan started by spending Friday night at my sister's house and on Saturday before heading to set up the party we stopped at Anderson and Girls for their free petting zoo. My oldest sister and one of her daughters also had come up and we had fun showing them around and introducing them to the amazing homemade blueberry doughnuts.

We got to touch the reindeer very soft antler, he didn't really care

New prairie dogs

Coming over to say hi :)

Arctic Fox cubs

Michelle with a baby goat

A baby lemur coming to say hi

 We had fun seeing and getting to touch a lot of animals we haven't been able to interact with as much before. We got to touch a zebra, wallaby, and also the Lemur they had out, she kept jumping from people's shoulders and getting into the banana's on the counter :) It was fun watching her. Then we jumped into our cars and headed to my parent's church to set up for the party.

Cakes and fresh flowers from our yard

Scrapbook

All the quilts my mom has made for all of us

Titus and Stephen stacking napkins

 After the party we said our good byes to Michelle and the kids and went our to dinner in Grand Haven at our favorite pizza place. Then we went out to the boardwalk and walked to the end of the pier before driving to our favorite ice cream place before heading home. Ahh, Michigan in summer... I miss getting to do this more often. I LOVE going to Grand Haven in the summer.

On the pier

Elizabeth, Kara, Carlyn, and Dan

My parents

On Sunday we all went to church and had some lunch before heading home. It was a very fun weekend and we enjoyed getting to spend time with Elizabeth and Carlyn.