Jack's big day

Yesterday, my nephew, Jack, turned 3.  My sister in-law, Ashley, planned a family only birthday party for Saturday morning.  We loaded up and headed north to Memphis.  Ford was beyond excited because his energy level goes up several notches when his cousins are involved, and Bitty was excited but he had no idea why!

 The first stop was the train museum.  It was a neat place with a Thomas the Train table, flashing lights, bells, whistles, toy replicas of little cities, etc.  I am pretty sure we wore out our welcome at the museum.  The men in the orange shirts (workers of the museum) probably applauded when we left!  BUT, the kids loved it.

 Birthday boy!!!!

 After we left our mark on the museum we headed outside to ride the trolley.  This was very exciting for my boys since we had never done anything like this before.  Under the circumstances, I think the 5 kids behaved very well while on our city tour.

 Gran and BoomPa

 After the ride we needed a group photo.  Someone always feels the need to goose the picture up somehow.  Ford thought “special faces” were acceptable in this one.

 And Jack wanted to show his midriff in the last one.  It was his birthday…anything goes!!!

 I met Representative Fancy Lamar on New Year’s Eve 2002 while I was in Memphis with my friends.  We met at Silky’s, but later ventured on to another location.  When we parked our car this morning by the train museum we saw this sign staring us in the face.  Ahhhh the memories from 11 years ago…. We definitely visited this spot too.

We need a picture for the momentous occasion.  

 Ford too…. You can’t forget Ford!

 The next stop was lunch.  We like to eat.  We headed to a pizza joint called “Trolley Market Stop".  I felt the need to take a picture of the menu since it said “Jillybilly’s” on it.  Trey just doesn’t understand all of my picture taking.  It’s for the blog!!!

Ashley and I came to the conclusion that we were NOT our waiter’s favorite table.  Other than John Brantley knocking my gigantic glass of water over I don’t think we were much of a problem.  He took a month of Sundays to bring us our pizzas so we had to entertain ourselves while we waited….

 Happy Happy Birthday to our sweet nephew and cousin, John Cooper “Jack” Anthony!!!!

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