this valentine’s day we took our second-ever trip as a family to tilden park. the first time, as you may recall, was ryan’s first father’s day <3 this time was especially special because ellie is older and more in awe of things going on around her, so we knew both the steam train and merry-go-round would be huge hits. here we are waiting for the train.

we were lucky enough to have ellie’s grandpa bill join us and take such wonderful pictures! this photo on the left is my favorite picture of the day of ellie and ryan on the train.

she definitely liked the merry-go-round better this time than she did back in june. we put her on her own horse this time, but she kept turning around and pointing to the dog!

we were going to go to the “little farm,” too (tilden’s take on a petting zoo), but we decided to wait until our next family outing when we have time to stop for lettuce and celery on our way … because then we can feed the goats! :)

we hope you had as good a valentine’s day as we did!