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I had a perfect birthday weekend.

On Saturday morning after I re-dying my hair and after reading Alex's blog on the Calgary Corn Maze, I decided that that's exactly what I wanted to do for my birthday. I phoned up Burns and told him, so he couldn't refuse because it was my BDAY!!!. He got ready, came over, and we headed down to the aMAZEing maze!

It was a bit chilly when we got there.

The first thing we headed to was:

And the second:

The giant jumping pillows of glory!

Then we headed into the corn maze.

An alien from "Signs"!

I was running after Burns when he disappeared around a corner. I saw something in the middle of the trail. Upon closer inspection I realized it was a movie. "Someone must have dropped this," I thought.

Upon even closer inspection I was able to see what the movie was:

Right then I knew it was for me from Burns for my birthday. It's probably my favorite movie and every time Burns asked me what I wanted for my special day, I said "How to Train Your Dragon"!

We wanted to make it in time for the pig races, so we headed back to the activity space and we eventually got around to the pig arena.

This is how I live up to my nick-name.

 Burns noticed that this horse already had a nose and mouth, so he just showed his eyes.

Then we fed the animals for 25 cents. I asked Burns what his favorite part of the Corn Maze was and he said feeding the goats. Haha! What a cutie.

This one reminded me of Julio.

We finally arrived at the pig races. We were supporting either the blue pig or the black pig. The lady wasn't very clear on where the division was in the crowd. So the yellow pig was juuuuuusssssst about to win when it passed a corn stalk leaf or something, turned back, and started sniffing at it. Yellow ended up being last or second to last. Little Blue won! Then there was a second round and Yellow won.

After the pigs, Burns and I wanted to pet the kittens, but there were too many little kids hogging all the little darlings so we didn't get a chance to even touch one. We tried lassoing some cattle though! Burns taught me how to do it right and I got one!

Burns got it two or three times...show off.

We went to the duck races and discovered how pumps work (nerds, I know). We were even in the background of someone filming their child while we were discussing how pumps worked. Haha! We also tried the Washer Tosser and I tried milking the cow (not a real cow). Then, to finish off our stay, we meandered over to the pumpkin patch,

picked out a couple pumpkins,

and made stuff with them!

I made Pumpkin Dump Cake with mine.

Burns and I made roasted pumpkin seeds with both of the pumpkins' entrails.

And Boonie made a Jack-O-Lantern.

On Sunday after church we went over to the Heninger's to pick up my birthday surprise:

Burns made a wonderfully delectable stew for the two of us! OOOHHH and it was soooo good! I want it NOW!!! Denise made Raspberry Delight for dessert. MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm.

After dinner we went to my house and watched my new movie (well...mostly Burns just watched it cause I fell asleep).

Thanks to all who wished me a happy birthday!