Last weekend we headed home for a quick family weekend. We went to Andy’s parents’ house first for lunch.

Snuggles with Uncle Jared.

And riding the piggy with daddy. Yeah, he’s something special.

Did you notice anything different about Andy?

Brutus is gone! The sad thing is I didn’t even notice the morning he did it, I saw remnants of his beard in the garbage. He told the guys at work it’d be receiving death threats ;-) I think he looks really nice without it.

We had a really nice day with Andy’s mom, dad, Jared and Becky. Just relaxing and enjoying each others company. We also looked at old photo albums which was a lot of fun.

Sunday we went to my mom and Paul’s cottage on Lake Ontario. They’re having an addition put on so it was fun to walk around and get that tour. I love how they carried the architecture and old cottagey feel to the new bedroom, bath and laundry room they added.

My mom took such a cute picture of Paul with the kids.

Andy also helped Paul do “something” with their dump find TV.

Ben enjoyed playing on the tablet at their house too. He calls it the Brown Book because of the brown leather case.

That evening we went out to a surprise 50th birthday dinner for my mom.

Her birthday had actually been the weekend before and we wondered if she thought we’d forgotten about her…but a few family, friends and neighbors were there to celebrate.

There was a gorgeous cake!

Cassidy was a little unsure of all the people at first.

But she quickly warmed up and was passed around :)

Ben trotted around like he owned the place. He ate his food and my food.

Then mooched off other people too. Phil is my mom and Paul’s cottage neighbor, thanks for sharing your fries Phil!

I brought all these activities for Ben to do but he was happy to socialize with everyone, play hide and seek under the table and be an all around ham. He had fun and we were in an enclosed area so he wasn’t bothering anyone else in the restaurant. He sung Happy Birthday to my mom too, it was the sweetest thing.

Happy 50th mom, hope we were able to make you feel special!