Is it over?

We started the partying on Thursday...Nicholas' actual birthday. Since T Ball was cancelled due to rain, we headed to Chuck E. Cheese. Aunt Colleen & Alexander joined us!
Grandma & Lukas

Alexander & Lukas

Aunt Colleen & the kids
Cake!
Frosting lips

Aunt Colleen & Nicholas
Presents!
Thanks Mom & Dad

Then........
Friday night we watched the Red Wing game with our friends....sort of. When we got to their house we saw that their DISH TV was not working. They assured them it would be on within an hour. That hour came and went. As we watched it on a laptop computer, we started packing up to go to our house, but Bo hooked the computer up to the 92 inch TV and we watched it that way. It wasn't bad....just not HD and no rewind capabilities. It was sort of like watching clay mation people skate around. I think that is probably why the Red Wings lost......just my theory.

Saturday was Nicholas' birthday party. It was cloudy and cool out. It figures. The weather stations kept saying sunny and 77 degrees. The day before the party...they said 70 and cloudy with afternoon showers. LOVELY. Nicholas had his heart set on the new water slide, so we set them up. The kids went on them until their teeth were chattering and their lips were turning blue....then they would go in again.
We also had the world's worst pinata. In the morning, I noticed the hook was broke...the one you use to hang it up with. We used some weed whacking string and managed to loop it through to make it hangable (is that a word?). The string was so strong that it cut through the cardboard, so we had to re thread it...but then the bottom popped open. So, we taped it. Then the other bottom side opened...we taped that. So, now the kids can't get it to open and were hitting it for so long and so hard...that the string broke again. Our friend Scott was holding it with his ripped up hands (he is a cop and got mauled by a pit bull....just the right person to be holding a pinata that kids are going to be hitting with a bat, right?) They avoided smashing his fingers and he finally just ripped it open and threw all the candy up in the air.
Pretty funny, huh? Maybe not when it was happening...but after it was pretty laughable (is that a word?) I am making up words today.
Here are some pics of Saturday......

Uncle Gary showed up!

So did Baby Emma....
The girls had fun

The famous "one eye" mug shot

Opening presents makes him smile


Scott trying to fix the world's worst pinata

Nicholas giving it a whack

The kids scrambling for candy

Batman & Spiderman cakes with Superman ice cream...3 super heroes in one!

Blow!

Guests
The twins!

The fellas

Nicholas testing the water slide
Lukas finally wakes up

Darth Vader showed up

Darth & a storm trooper battle to the end!

Thank You to everybody for all the great gifts and for sharing in Nicholas' special day. He has alot of Thank You cards to sign!