austin's birthday: part 2.

since austin and i were in tunica for his birthday weekend, we had to wait until this past weekend to celebrate his birthday with the heard family. steve, gloria and taylor met me and austin at the mt. vernon restaurant on saturday night for a nice dinner.

first, gloria gave us all homemade fudge for valentine's day. austin and taylor were both very excited.

steve, however, was more excited about the onion rings.

steve, gloria and taylor all got the fried seafood platter, austin got the chicken livers {yuck, i know} and i got the alfredo pasta. then, it was time for dessert, of course, because it was austin's birthday and he had to blow out a candle!

taylor lighting the cande, in his own way.

blowing out the candle... in a weird way.

austin reeeally likes coconut pie, apparently.

can you tell they are related?

and then, we decided to try and take a group picture.

note the use of the word "try."

that's the best we could do.

finally, though, one last ditch effort.

happy birthday, austin!