What a great weekend! Saturday morning we had eight of Nathan's friends to our house for a birthday party. We were sad it was too cold and rainy to be outside to actually play baseball, since this was a baseball party. But we did get to play lots of fun indoor games with a baseball theme. We played baseball darts, bat bat ball (duck duck goose), musical bases (with really fun baseball music), pin the ball on the field, and don't eat Pete. The kids had fun with the baseball pinata. (It was surprisingly easy to make.) I bought a baseball card pin up with a spot for two kids to poke their heads through so we took Nathan's picture with each of his friends. The kids had baseball cupcakes and got popcorn goodie bags with things like cracker jacks, Baby Ruth candy bars, whistles (I'm sure their parents love me for that one), wiffle balls, etc.
My mom, dad, and Christy were able to visit with us this weekend. It was sure fun to see them and enjoy general conference. Christy sounds happy up at school. I guess mono has come in handy more than once. I'll let Christy share those stories with you.
Monday night we had a family birthday party for Nathan on his actual birthday. Amber made this incredible cake. We had baseball foods like: popcorn, peanuts, hot dogs, nachos, soda, and chips. To give the nachos more substance I made Cafe Rio pork (Lizzy's recipe) along with every topping I could think of for nachos. Unlike Saturday, Monday was a beautiful fall day and Nathan was able to play lots of baseball. He really does love baseball. He has everything a kid could possibly need for baseball. He's got several bats and balls, a mitt, baseball gloves, actual bases, a tee (that he refuses to use he wants someone pitching to him all the time), a bat bag, a helmet and a yard big enough to play. He got so many fun gifts. Including some of the baseball things mentioned above, golf clubs that are his size, books, match box cars and roadways, a football, a stick horse (he is going to be a cowboy for Halloween and really wanted a stick horse that neighs), WAGS shirts, Buzz Lighyear, play dough, automotive signs and cars, clothes, dart gun, really fun board games, puzzle, spider man motorcycle, coloring book, a crash car, doctor set, and video. So spoiled. We had built up his birthday a lot over the past few weeks making invitations and decorations. I was a little worried it would be a let down when it was all over.
We have been seeing more and more Halloween decorations lately and yesterday he said as we were going into Albertson's they have Halloween here but we don't have it at our house. I told him after his birthday we would. So this morning the first thing he wanted to do was get our Halloween decorations out. He is upstairs right now with his cowboy boots on riding his stick horse.
