Jack & Patrick turn 8 and celebrate BIG

Instead of the usual HUGE party (we are talking a minimum of 60 kids invited every year) that we do at the Rec Ctr. for the boys birthday, this year we went a different route. John got 10 tickets to the Mets game on the boys birthday and they invited 6 friends to go to the game. John and Graeme chaperoned and drove and the kids were divided up into two teams (red and blue, surprisingly!). Everyone arrived here at our house at 10:30am, gave me their food order for the game, played a little backyard baseball, and left for the game at 11am. They arrived just in time for the start.

Let me break here and go back to the night before where I stayed up until 2am finishing the favors, making the food chart, and decorating. John and the boys previously picked out Mets hats as favors for the party, we picked up wiffle balls, baseball cards, and fan pulls with baseballs on them to use as a link for all the stuff. I also made a "thank you" card to attach to the group of stuff. Then I wrote each guest’s name on the table including either a baseball or a baseball diamond in each of their names. So I was coloring at 1:45am. And then hanging the favors from the chandellier in the dining room at 2am. But I got it done and it looked really cute!

I didn’t go to the game (thankfully. I don’t like baseball). But I pleaded with Graeme to take a lot of pictures, and being the good boy he is, he did. A lot. Got some really cute ones of all the kids at the game and even the special birthday surprise of getting the boys name up on the jumbo screen. I was so happy he got that one! Unfortunately, the Mets lost, but it was apparently a very exciting game.

After they all got home (around 4pm), they continued with the baseball game in the backyard, stopped for some goofy pictures in the banner I got, and had some cake. I had run out in the afternoon with Timmy to pick up a few little gifts for the boys (backpacks, webkinz, and books) and the Carvel cake. Yum. I think everyone left around 6pm. It was a long, great day. We picked up sushi for dinner- boys’ choice and following with our b’day tradition in this house, we put a candle in the sushi (a candle goes in every meal you have at home on your birthday).

Grandma and Grandpa got the boys a Wii which they were so super excited about. We set that up today (thanks Uncle Joe for your help with that!) and they must have been playing in the basement for a good 4hrs. I tried it out and it is a lot of fun. Could be dangerous.

Happy Birthday Jack & Patrick!!! I just cannot believe they are 8. When did that happen, exactly??