Fun-filled Weekend

Last Thursday night, we drove up to Cadillac to spend a few days with Curt's family. On Friday, Betsy, (Curt's sister) was able to take some family pictures of us and individual ones of Ben. We have lots of cute ones to choose from, so that is great! It's been a couple years since we had a family picture and we really needed an updated one.

Saturday, we were supposed to go to a farm/pumpkin patch, but the rain caused us to scrap those plans. We had lots of fun staying inside though...playing games, watching football, and chatting. In the evening, we had a birthday party at Mark and Betsy's house. Betsy did an awesome job decorating and making food for a Toy Story/cowboy party. The birthdays we celebrated were for my brother-in-law Mark, my nephews Jacob and Brady, and Ben.

I didn't get a lot of pictures because my camera started acting really funny on Saturday. Hopefully it's not on its last leg!
 Ben and Peyton thought they needed helmets on while playing football in the yard on Friday.
 This is Jacob's new dirt bike that he got for his birthday. Ben wanted to sit on it. It will be MANY years before he rides on something like that! :)
 Betsy set out hats, bandannas, and little horses for each child to take when we arrived for the party.
 Fun cupcakes that went with the Toy Story theme.
 This is Ben at the beginning of the party. I didn't give him an afternoon nap on Saturday because he was having so much fun with his cousins. He fell right to sleep on the way to the birthday party. We let him sleep about 45 minutes and then I woke him up so that he didn't miss the whole party.
 All of the kids with their cowboy garb.
 Ben sitting by his pile of birthday presents.
Ben received Cars skates for one of his presents. He wanted to try them out on Sunday night after we got home and he was all ready for bed. I will say that he is much safer with them on the carpet! :)

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Mom Walker said…
Aawww! Great pictures, Melissa! It was a fun party, and a fun weekend! Now we're looking forward to Thanksgiving! :-)
Tuesday, 26 October, 2010
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