birthday festivities.

these two handsome fellas had birthdays this past week. i'm pretty sure i will not be celebrating anything for a long time because i'm so tired of making desserts/special dinners/decorating but it was fun while it lasted. 

my fabulous husband turned 26 this week. he's so old now. and his birthday dinner request? costco pizza, root beer and apple crisp. ha. i  guess we did go out to a fancy dinner over the weekend, but still. in any case, i went to costco and provided his deliciousness. we did most of his stuff previously, so he really didn't get to celebrate on monday other than cards from both of us. 

this was the extent of my decorating for the two of them. do you like my pom pom's? i do. a lot. so much that i stuck them in zak's room after birthdays were over. =) 

this little fat face turned two on friday. i guess technically he's not as fat any more, but he's still just as cute. i miss his little chubby cheeks. good thing we're having another one that i can fatten up to be just like him. =)

i'm pretty sure we celebrated his birthday all week. it was supposed to rain every day so i took advantage of the one "non-rainy" day to take him to the zoo and on a lunch date, but then it turned out to not rain any day so we just kept doing fun things. ha. 

in any case, i used our "one free ride" pass this time to make the zoo extra special. words cannot describe how excited he was to ride the train around the zoo. i think he was a little more scared when it actually started moving, but he's prostar now. 

 "GO CHOO CHOO TRAIN!! GOOOO" is what this picture says. sitting is not exactly what he wanted to do. haha. 

a lot of my extended family came in on friday to celebrate with us. being the only grandchild on my side has certain perks for him, that's for sure. 

saturday we went to tilden regional park in berkeley, and it was fabulous. it's seriously in the mountains, and obscure, but it was perfect for the man. 

that's the city in the very back. like i said. very obscure park. but so awesome. 

they had this 100 year old carousel, that he was very very excited for. we must have ridden it about 6 times. on a different animal every time.

 and then they happened to have a giant thomas train. almost the best part of the day. 

but no, mom and dad did even better than that. this park happened to have a mini steam train so we took a 15 minute ride around on it for like $3 a person. we didn't tell him that it had a train, so he was very very very excited when he saw it. it was even better because he yelled "ALL ABOARD" when we got on. hilarious. 

it's so cute and little eh? 

then we went to fenton's ice cream parlor for lunch and they sang happy birthday to him again. and brought him ice cream. i'm pretty sure that he's never had as many delicious treats as he did this past week. 

he also got hooked up with tons of presents. {mom bought him a sweater, shoes and books, so we all know that grandparents give better presents haha} we asked for outside toys, and grandmas and grandpas did good. he loves the basketball hoop. 

this picture of my parents is hilarious. they bought him a legit sand box, and were trying to get him to smile, and obviously my mom's trying did nothing for zak. haha 

we had a fantastic weekend with my family. zak loved spending time with everyone and he got spoiled rotten. thanks again everyone! 

happy birthday to my favorite boys! muah!