IT WAS QUITE A PARTY!!!

"I ate my hot dog, watermelon and chips. Let's play some football!!!"
In the huddle.

Football game!

Jared, the life of the party!!

What a good looking kid!!!

Opening gifts with friends

"Hurry up and take the picture Mom. I want to eat some cake!"

Here are the ones that made it until 10:00. We lost 3 who had to get home and get to bed.....

Levi's birthday was yesterday and what a birthday it was! We normally only do "friend" parties on their 8th, 12th and 16th birthdays. All other birthdays are family parties. This year was a little different since our friend Samuel was here visiting. Levi invited a "few" friends.......

The party started at 5:00 with a bbq. We were in for a long night. We finally said good-bye to them at 10:00. They played every kind of tag you can think of, ate more food, played football, basketball, swam in the pool, ate more food, opened gifts, ate even more food, jumped on the trampoline and ate a little more.

I guess there was only 12 extra kids plus our 9 there, for some reason it felt like a lot more......wait, that's like 21 kids!!!! Ok, that sounds like a lot of kids at a birthday party but when 9 of them live here, that's not so bad. The amazing thing is when I look at the pictures, it warms my heart to see that 11 of them were adopted from all over the world!!!!

Well, the night ended with only one black eye, one slight concussion and one tooth being knocked out (Thomas left his front tooth in someones arm in a wild game of Red Rover!!!) But hey, it needed to come out eventually!!!

We're done with birthdays around here for the rest of the year. We'll start back up with them in January. Wa-Hooooooo!