After the craziness of the holidays this year, we decided to celebrate Conner's 3rd BD in more of a low-key fashion (while we can get away with it!). We packed up the boys and drove up to the Nut Tree in Vacaville. Even though it has been completely renovated, it still brought back so many memories for me. I use to go with my family and my Grandpa growing up, and have so many fond memories of.........riding the train, eating those huge-yummy gingerbread cookies, eating pineapple dipped in marshmallow sauce, and just spending quality time with my Grandpa. I'm so glad we decided to go because it closed down for good about a week after we went!
We spent the morning there and OH MY, it was FREEZING. I think there was about 2 other families braving the cold with us, but we still had tons of fun. Conner's favorite ride was the Nut Tree train, but he also enjoyed the little airplane ride, the bumper cars with Dad, and driving the little dump-trucks. Logan enjoyed watching his brother run around, but I think he just wanted to defrost....he was a trooper though!
After the rides, we had lunch at our favorite pizza place that we used to eat at all the time on Union Street in SF, Amici's. Dennis and I were loving it, and our picky little 3 year old, wouldn't even eat it! Are you kidding me? I had made a back-up PB&J, so he enjoyed that on the ride home :)
That night, we had over our good friends and next door neighbors, Linda-James-Jack-Nathan for some cupcakes. It was really cute, we all sang to Conner and he really enjoyed blowing out his candles and powering through 2 cupcakes. I think we all had an even better time than the kids enjoying several glasses of mommy-juice and daddy-juice ;) It was the perfect ending to a great day!
