COLE'S 10th BIRTHDAY

My son turned 10...DOUBLE DIGITS!!!  Wowza!  Ok, the shock factor is over now since his birthday was April 24th but still...It took some getting use to. We've been keeping the birthdays simple since we moved here but, this year we decided to let Cole have some friends over for a sleep over. We have a small house and a joke of a yard so, we were a little nervous about how crazy the house would get.

 

 

 

I got the boys nerf guns and a bazillion whistling bullets so they were highly entertained by trying to shoot each other in the head or the ding dong.  Boys are nuts but, they had a blast.

 In between all that chaos, Brooke and Carrington played with their ribbons so sweetly.

 

They stayed up super late playing a video game baseball tournament.

 Some didn't last as long as others. Poor thing slept in that chair like that all night long.

 

They went to the dinky neighborhood park down the street to play baseball.  It was rainy and pretty chilly outside so the boys threw on a mix match of stuff to keep warm.  Bryce is actually wearing my brown jacket. Lol.  These 2 pictures of them crack me up.  Do they look like a bunch of scrubs or what?

Cole, Will, Jamison, Drane & Bryce

The girls stayed home and drew pretty pictures on the door over and over again. I really like those quiet activities.

Nathan had boy duty but somehow managed to watch from the couch. :-)  It all worked though and the sleepover turned out really well. No fights, no crying, and not too much of a mess.  I'll take that for sure!

Early before school on his actual birthday.

 My little boy is turning into a little man.  Sniff, sniff.

Lots of his birthday presents consisted of baseball gear.  New shoes, new bat, new catcher's equipment.  You would not believe how quickly that stuff adds up.  Bats are outrageous.  Good for us that baseball season is around his birthday.  He often gets early presents because of that but, he'll probably get annoyed with that real soon. It works for now and he seems to be cool with it.

Awwww. They really do love each other...Even if they get on each other's nerves sometimes.

 

Geez my face looks swollen with sleepy eyes.  In my defense, it was early and I'm not so good at waking up.  I either slept really hard or not enough...Or maybe really hard for not long enough.

Cole was pumped to have a game on his birthday.  He kind of had a wild game because he was so excited but, we pulled out the win. 

10 YEARS OLD...

I'm starting to think the years just go by faster from here.