Rob's Birthday

This year we had a Halloween Birthday party for Rob. It was low key (at least as low key as you can be on Halloween with 10 ten and eleven year old boys, 2 ten year old girls, 1 nine year old girl and 1 five year old boy). We had pizza and cake, went trick-or treating, watched a movie and played football in the front yard.

Here the Birthday Boy leads a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday."

These four boys started out as secret agents and then decided to be the MIB instead. They cracked us up because they did approach some houses as if they were on a stealthy mission.



This little X-Wing Pilot had too much Halloween I think.




Our Candy Corn Princess and our X-Wing pilot stayed with the bigger kids all night. If fact, by the end of the evening it was the big kids that were slowing down and the two younger ones that were still leading the pack.



On November 1 we had Rob's real Birthday with a special dinner, homemade cake, and family gifts. Rob had a great time and really enjoyed his presents.

We have all really enjoyed this gift from Mom & Dad. Rob follows us around telling us the jokes he finds in this book, we can't even find peace in the bathroom as he'll shout the jokes at us through the door. Mark and I are still trying to determine a suitable revenge.

I can't blame anyone but myself for this gift. Yes, it is a real snare drum. I don't think I realized how loud one drum could be. Rob is improving on his percussion by leaps and bounds since his birthday and the rest of us keep the Advil handy.

I can't believe that Rob is eleven. When did I blink. He had a great birthday and we feel blessed to have him in our family- snare drums, jokes and all.