Well a First birthday takes quite a bit of prep work, so Rod came over Thursday night, Theresa flew in late Thursday night, and Dara drove down from Mikado early Friday morning. On Friday, I prepared some food for the party and did some running in the morning while Dara and Theresa made Ajax a John Deere tractor cake (there was some issue on this as my dad is a Ford man, lol). Dave and Rod had the truck and rented a rototiller and prepped the ground behind the garage for our garden. I never got around to making Ajax his healthy birthday cake as we all ran out of time and energy.
In three cars we then formed a caravan and headed out to my parent’s house in Brooklyn, the site of the fiesta. My mom, dad, and sister had been hard at work and the house and barn were all tidied up. Since it was all clean we ordered pizza and played with the horses. Ajax and Theresa got to ride a horse for the first time and both did wonderful!
On top of that the weather on Friday was lovely, actually a little too hot. It was 80 and sunny. When Rod and Dave were working on the garden I brought Ajax out to sit in the grass and watch the progress. Ajax, however, was not too fond of the feel of grass on his feet and he refused to stand. He just sat there curling his toes. He wouldn’t even touch the grass with his hands and kept holding them up. It was pretty funny.
