Birthday At the Aquarium

We spent Sean's 28th birthday this year at the aquarium, eating sea food, and of course, a stop at the book barn for my book loving husband!

It never ceases to amaze me how much there really is to do at this small aquarium! We've been members since Lily was about 4 months old, and have been so many times, and there are still new things for us to do! This trip we saw / did 3 new things! First was a new exhibit, that just opened up since the last time we were there...jelly fish!! All different kinds! They are so pretty to look at!

Second new thing was the bird exhibit! We've never gone into the cages to feed the birds before, and to be honest, I'm not sure we'll be doing it again any time soon! They give you a little stick with bird seed stuck tot he end, and send you into this cage with what's got to be hundreds of birds. Of course they come flying for the food! It was fun at first, and Lily was delighted to have this one little green bird eating from her stick.






Then they started swooping at her, and it scared her, so she handed the stick over to me, and I had a couple birds land on my arm!! Scared the living daylights out of me! :) We id have one pretty yellow bird stay with our stick for a bit.


Lily was still scared though!


I ended up finding a spot in a tree to ditch the stick that still had food on it, so we could leave. It was fun, but just made both of us a little to nervous!

All 3 of my girls...still haven't got a decent picture of the 3 of them!


The 3rd new thing we saw was the bull frogs singing in the marsh. We usually go to the aquarium in the winter/spring/fall months, so we often see the marsh with all the tadpoles...but have never seen the frogs before! It was fun running around the boardwalk finding with frog was singing!


Of course we stopped to check out the penguins and the sea lions!


This is the huge male sea lion they have. I've never seen him come out of the water like this before! It's like he was checking us all out! He was just out of the water for a minute or so, but it was really neat to see really how large he is!


I really love that we can go to this aquarium so many times, and still have a different experience each time!

I also have a few pictures to share relating to Sean's birthday.

Here is one of the pictures Lily painted for her Daddy:


She said that it was a picture of Daddy, with his eye brow, eyes, and nose!

Painting another picture:


And then showing off one more picture. She was so excited that she made gray by mixing all the colors!


And here she is helping me frost the spice cake that I made yesterday:



(Note to self...left the cake cool completely before trying to frost with butter cream frosting!! It kept melting! I was in a rush though to get it down before her nap! Also need to figure out a better way to mix pumpkin puree into the frosting...it didn't mix as well as it usually does!)

And the birthday boy blowing out his candles with a little help from Lily and Ella:


I hope you had a wonderful birthday sweetie!!