July Birthday Boys

July is a busy birthday month for us.  I am hoping to have pictures of Lily's birthday soon. Her birthday was on the 8th and we celebrated it in Mexico.  Hopefully I will have those pictures back to post soon. Our hard drive is off being fixed (again). 

We had two other birthdays this month as well...

Cole's birthday was on the 14th and he spent it playing baseball.  

 He had two or three games that day.  His team came in first place in the city's Pinto league. So they played in a multi-city tournament that week . 

In between games we ate cake and opened presents. Cole  wants to thank all the Grandma's Grandpa's for the great gifts.  

The big surprise gift was from Mom & Dad (mostly dad).  Here is a great picture of him opening up the package with the bb's in it.

He can't believe his eyes! (neither could I)

We spent that night watching his game.  It really was a lot of fun.  Who doesn't love baseball on a summer night!?

The next night his team had two more games which they won -- so they were undefeated and won the tournament!  

A few of the games were really close and there were some nice words and pleasantries exchanged between fans -- good times! Cole had a great season and learned a lot this year.

The other birthday boy was Cord.  His birthday was yesterday.

The kids and I got balloons and party hats to celebrate.  They had so much fun picking out the balloon colors, we ended up with quite the array.  

After we were home for about 2 minutes I walked outside to find Penny decked out with a party hat Barry put on her. 

The birthday boy!

Rugrat central

Thanks for the gifts & cards!

While at the party store Cole found a section of gags & practical jokes.  He begged me to buy these tiny balls that when placed in someone's drink grow quickly into a worm. 

Gross!

Really gross!

So as you can see I let them buy the joke worms and they were placed in Cord's glass of milk.  I guess part of the worm went into Cord's mouth and he was sufficiency grossed out.  Cole & Lily laughed their heads off.  

Happy Birthday!!

And because I don't want to leave you with that lovely image I will post a picture of cute Alli. She is off at E.F.Y. so she isn't in any of the pictures. 

Just before I took her over to BYU I took this picture.  She rolled her eyes and said "It's not the first day of school mom!" (make sure you read that with a lot of attitude.)

Undaunted I snapped away.