Happy 10th Birthday Brant!!

Brant celebrated his BIG 10th birthday with a sleepover party!! Boy was that an experience!! We seriously didn't get much sleep, but it really was a lot of fun!! This was a bit different for me I must say! At girl sleep over's we'd...I don't know...do our hair, make-up and outfits all funky and run around the neighborhood or something...freeze each others bra's during the night and maybe call cute boys and laugh and giggle. BOYS?! Well, let's just make a Top 5 List out of it!!:
#5--They turn your hallway into a "Pitching Practice" strip (orig founded by Marty & Brant who decided to share this with all party goers)
#4--They are unable to resist the attraction they have with your trampoline that has springs missing due to it's age (and from 4 years of our summer sun)! Since it's "in the plans to be taken down anyway, Brant, Tyler & Jacob show them how they discovered they could "help" in the cause. Three of them sit on the part of the tramp that droops down b/c of lack of springs (kind of like a cozy little swing), while the others jump and on count of three plop to their butts and POP! There goes yet another spring!! I know this sounds like a dangerous and irresponsible thing for me, the mother, to let them do...but #1--I was watching them do it! and #2--I made them stop after two springs flung into neighbors yards & the one flung completely over our house, hitting the roof just above the bay window in the front, rolling down and falling into the flower bed!!..I really should've gotten a picture!darn! and in all seriousness, I am glad a window didn't break or a kid get hit by a flying spring!
#3--The bathroom toilet!!..well, if you have experienced how bad it gets with one or two boys..just imagine six!! Nothing more to say.
#2--They Fart!!...everywhere they go, they Fart!! I even gave one party goer, (who shall remain annonymous for sake of embarrassment to his mother)..uuhhhhmmmmm...ty..ler...a brand new can of air freshener to carry around with him so the rest of us didn't have to suffer anymore!
#1--Instead of Freezing Bra's they get deoderant and smear it across the victims (any poor soul who might have given in to his body's need to sleep and dozed off for any amount of time!) upper lip!!


The kids loved getting in the pool...all three or four times (including around 7:30Sat morning)!! It was quite entertaining to watch them play the contests and games they came up with!


We ordered our favorite pizza's with Ranch Crust for dinner!!!


So Zack decided to hit the pinata so hard that he broke the hanger off the top. That was just a little road block for these baseball players!! They decided they wanted Marty to "pitch" it to them...and so that's what they did!! It actually worked so well that we might just make that tradition!!


While some boys practiced Guitar Hero these three decided to make a pyramid...and yes, those two pictures that 'look like they're going to fall', FELL!..No broken glass or frames though so it's all good!


Rissa Loved being "center of attention"!...or so she thought she was!!


Brant was so excited about all of his gifts that he received!! He ended up with a TON of cash!..sports cards, trick balls...(baseballs) and few other things from friends-and we got him a Ripstick...which was all he wanted from us for his bday!! It's similar to a skate board except that each end of the board flexes and twists with movement of your foot so it's crazy to try and balance on! Nontheless, within a day of practice, practice, practice! Brant had it mastered!! Now he's giving Marty lessons!
Our thanks go out to all six boys who so earnestly contributed their creative energies in to coming up with new and inventive ways to take a trampoline apart, finish off a broken pinata and who thought of funny, sneeky things to do to those who "dared to fall asleep"!! til next time, boys, Peace Out!!