Life beyond the birthdays

Alrighty, so if it hasn't been birthday related, it hasn't been blogged about recently!  In between all the festivities, we've had lots of other fun stuff going on. 

* We had a playdate at Catchair and a trip to the Pizza Hut buffet with Alicia, Christa, and all the kids. 
* Strawberry picking!!  Followed up by homemade strawberry ice cream [thanks Ms. Christa!].  Oh and Alicia & Christa surprised me with a birthday candle on this playdate [I know I'm not supposed to be talking birthdays anymore, but it was super thoughtful!]. 
          UPDATE: I forgot to mention that we told the kids they could pick a strawberry to eat since they were being good and all.  I didn't think to educate them on how to pick and what to eat; I looked over to see Abby eating strawberry - leaves, stem, and all.  Yumm!
          I also wanted to comment on Andrew's flirting with our Abby-girl!  I must have caught him at least four times saying something along the lines of "Here Abby, I brought you strawberry."  While they are very cute together with their matching blonde curls and blue eyes, don't waste your time buddy, she's not dating any time soon :) 
* Ryan's preschool friend Seth's birthday party at the other Catchair and then dinner at "Welcome to Moe's" with Daddy.
* Touch a truck.  The kids love these sorts of events.  Favorites included the tow truck since you could pull his horn and the Cobb EMC truck who had a bucket that you could get in.  And of course it was even better with Aunt Lolly and Uncle Brian there too!
* Saturday morning soccer has been going super well.  Ryan is LOVING it and is so confident out on the field.  He loves playing with his friends, Anna Wynn and Sam.  He's scored a few goals and this past Saturday he scored a goal and won the medal for the week, go Ryan!
* Ryan and Mommy had a Mother-Son Date Knight at Chick-fil-a.  As you'd expect, they went all out and we had a great time.  There was a balloon man who made Ryan a sword and Ryan even said hello to the Cow!  [Daddy and Abby had their own date next door at McDonalds :)].