A Birthday Party for Jeremy!

The hard part of having a birthday in the middle of the summer is that everyone is out of town. So we had to wait almost a month to have a party. Every year when we throw a party it rains. Every. Year. But surely having a party a month late meant that we would be exempt this time... right? Well, we started the party out at home with some homemade pizza and cake. Sounds great right? Yeah, I thought so too until the power went out as we were cooking the pizzas. We were able to finish cooking them on the gas grill. 

A friend of mine mentioned recently that dark photos with lots of people look better in black and white... so here you go: 

 Thank you to Tara for decorating Jeremy's cake! It looks beautiful! And he was so excited about his gator cake!

 Oh, and the power came on just in time to blow out the candles on the cake! Yeah!

 So, the rest of the party was spent at Fun Station playing laser tag, mini golf and bumper boats! I think everyone had a great time!  Here are the men and kids going in for their first game!

The only way to play mini golf with 8 kids is to let them play however they want to! For example: Hopers played shovel-golf where you just shovel the ball right into the hole.  And Jeremy, Matthew and Jake a played speed golf where you hit it quickly before the ball ever stops moving and eventually kick it into the hole. Although, Noodle played the correct way and kept score her self so that she knows how awesome she did... although it probably irritated her that no one else would take it seriously. Some how the kids managed to play 2 full rounds of golf in under 45 minutes. But, they were happy! 

 I completely forgot that the kids would get soaked on the bumper boats and I wasn't prepared for bringing home 9 drenched kiddos.

 Yeah for Jeremy's Birthday!