Happy Birthday, Grandpa!

When Nico was born on the day after his birthday, my dad joked that his birthday would go unnoticed every year. We put the unpacking on hold for a big birthday celebration weekend for both of them!

My mom, Nico, and I went up to my dad's work for a little surprise for my dad on Friday. His coworkers organized a fake meeting and were all in a room to sing happy birthday with cake and ice cream. My dad was so surprised and his face was SO red. We laughed that we usually don't get to see that sorta reaction out of him. Right he walked into the room, Nico went running up to him with his arms out. Priceless.

Nico stole the show. I felt like he was a celebrity up there. Pretty funny.

On Saturday, we went up to Bee Cave to hang out for the afternoon. It's a nice area about 20 minutes north of us that has plenty of restaurants and things to do. We landed in a little dive bar for a drink before spending a majority of our afternoon at Waterloo Ice House.

So many of the restaurants here have playgrounds attached. Score for us.

We were pumped that Ryan was able to come down to join the party. He was clutch in winning Nico this little stuffed animal out of the machine. I'm not sure Nico was going to let us leave without winning something. The pressure was on.

Here's the birthday boy and the soon-to-be birthday boy.

After Waterloo, we wandered down to Iron Cactus and found a splash pad.

About that time, Dave, Cindy, and David were coming back into town and we met up with them at Trudy's for dinner near the house. It made for a really fun day, and hopefully my dad enjoyed his birthday!