Thursday, March 5, 2009

Gordon's a whole hand!

Our oldest boy just turned 5 in February...and he is loving flashing his whole hand at anyone who cares to know how old he is!!



Here we are en route to the discount movie theater where we were taking the family to enjoy "Bolt" then we headed home to have some Pizza and Birthday cake! We didn't do anything too fancy since really he didn't care...he just wanted chocolate frosting and "candles to wish on....and presents!!"


WELCOME COWBOYS & COWGIRLS!
So I was pretty excited about this party and really didn't stress about the fact that I had 12 5ish year olds being dropped off at my house...I thought, "No big deal!" What I didn't count on is that Gordon invited all the friends he liked which meant they probably had a lot in common including activity level--right--that's where it hit me in the rear. I had some of the most adorable wild funny and LOUD children over....most of my cute games and acitivities were vetoed by the boys who were intent at waging all sorts of battles in the basement and spilling out into other areas of the house but they entertained the girls quite well...Everyone had a blast and our house was trashed but it was all worth it! One other thing I didn't count on was how much other kids eat...my kids are birds but dang those boys went through almost 4 large pizzas on their own...we had to send Steve back for some more for the few adults that stayed to help out!
(THANKS to Steve, Melanie, Allie, Laura, and Anthony for all your help!)


Steve the "cattle hand" told cowboy stories around the "fire" while the cooks got the grub ready!


Some of the girls and younger children playing..."there's a snake in my boot"

We had a little after party that night before bed...Gordon in hindsight was really sad he didn't get to "win" all the games so we played all of them and had a lot of fun doing it!000



I just want to say how much we LOVE our oldest son...he is true treasure in our family--A diamond! We are so proud of him and just LOVE LOVE LOVE him! He is so talented and really tries to do what's right even when it's really hard! We are so proud of what a good boy he is becoming. Thanks for being our boy Gordy!
Love, Mom & Dad

Here is our little sweetheart through the years!


2 comments:

Mark and Meghan said...

happy birthday gordon! he's so cute leah....and yeah i'm pretty afraid for porter's birthday coming up. how am i going to handle all those boys?? :)

Suzanne said...

Oh how we miss you Wards! Everyone looks as cute as ever! Congrats on the fourth!