A Birthday Surprise, Santa, and LOTS of pictures!

The three of us have had a fun couple of days! Ryan surprised me for my birthday with an overnight stay at the Gaylord Texan hotel and tickets to the ICE exhibit. He planned it all by himself! He is such an incredible husband and father and I am so thankful for him. He knew that I wanted to spend my birthday as a family, so he made sure to include Leah in all the plans!

We arrived at the Gaylord on Tuesday afternoon. We went up to our room first to check everything out! We had a floor to ceiling window in the room that Leah just loved! She would stand there and talk as though all the people below us could hear her.

Then we headed down to see ICE. We were a little early so we took a couple of pictures to pass the time.

We were so excited about ICE. Ryan and I had gone last year and had so much fun. Who knew that Leah would not enjoy it as much as we did! We couldn't take in our stroller like we had planned and then the parka that Leah had to wear was way too big and wouldn't stay on her. She was melting down before we even went in. Ryan and I tried to enjoy all the ice sculptures as we walked as fast as we could through the exhibit. We even tried to go out one exit, but it lead us outside, so we kept on going.

We were so thankful when we saw this:

After ICE, we walked around the hotel for a while and took some more pictures.

We ate at the Riverwalk Cafe in the hotel. It is set up and decorated to look just like the Riverwalk in San Antonio. It was really fun and really good food!

This was the view from our room at night.

Sweet Leah on my 27th birthday morning.

We took this same picture last year when I was 37 weeks pregnant with Leah. Wow, how time flies! I have such a wonderful family!

The Gaylord is decorated so beautifully during the Christmas season. We had a lot of fun finding places to take pictures of Miss Leah!

She is the best birthday present I could ever ask for!

We went to Bass Pro Shop to see Santa and they had a carousel inside for all the kids. This was Leah's first time to ride one and she seemed to really enjoy it!

Here she is with Santa! Leah did so well. I don't think she really knew what was going on.

We got a picture with my sister's little girls too! This is such a cute picture of Leah and her cousins.

That night, we went to Holiday in the Park at Six Flags with Ryan's family. Leah got to spend some time with her other cousin, Parker!

The past couple of days have been wonderful. I love this time of year and am so thankful for an incredible family to spend it with.