Happy 9th Birthday (2nd attempt to post!)

Brian's sister Jodi (and her boyfriend Brian- confused yet?lol) came out from WA to drive the Z back for Brian's Dad (my father-in-law) who bought it.. Jodi came out first and then on Friday the 30th of June we went to pick her Brian up in Omaha. I took a few pics of them in Old Market District. They are absolutely adorable and it is fun to see "young love" (as in the new stages!) again...We loved Brian (he's a keeper Jo!)! Here is a pic of them:

Tristan had a Football Themed Birthday Party for his 9th B'day on July 2nd. Here he is running with the ball as the party opened up with a football game:


Here they are chasing down Trey with the ball- Tristan is on the far right-



Jodi and Brian stayed in with Jax and he watched through the porch window-lol-



Here is the cake I made for Tristan- and you can see the Seahawks paper and colored plates. We stamped some napkins (Jodi's idea- loved having a 2nd grade teacher help out!) which turned out sooo cute.



Here is the sun room- Tristan brought out all of his football decor from his room- it was pretty cute!!



Waiting for cake :


Happy Birthday Tristan!


Make a wish! (And hold your hands up to keep the other "blower-outers" away-lol- Who could resist blowing out 9 blue and green candles on a football cake??)



Tristan's friend Luke LOVES Jax and is a big helper as you can see!



Tristan with the Dykstra boys:





A water balloon fight- short and sweet! A laundry basket of balloons that didn't even make it off the deck!






Then we played "Tug-of-water" where you try to pull the other team into the sprinkler- they played that for a long time! It was pretty fun-



We got you now!!!

I don't think so!

Oh NO!!! We're getting pulled in!!!

Jodi's Brian reorganizes the teams...



After the game some opted to play with the new water guns:


While others were content to play in the sprinkler- right, Micah?


The boys got used to Tristan's Mom playing with the camera all day. Here is another pic of Luke. I work with his Mom and think she would like to have this:



Time to cool off with a Popsicle before going home:

Fourth of July

We started out by going to Mill Creek Campground in Paullina. It is a few miles from the dairy site and has a swimming beach and nice little fishing area. Fun for the kids, but of course nerve-racking for Mom with all of the water (:
They had fun though- I didn't get as many pics as I should have- Brian and Jodi were with us and I didn't even get any of them.





Tristan's favorite thing about Paullina- Mill Creek Soft Serve:

After swimming we came home and got cleaned up and then went to Dale and Janel

Birthday Continued...

Sorry about the double postings below- I tried to remove one of them but blogspot wouldn't let me. Anyway, I had a bunch of pics to get to and now that everyone is napping I think I will try to get some more posted:
Tristan's "family cake" as the one didn't make it past the party- this one was about 1/2 the size...


Jax full of cake:

Here is Tristan opening a few gifts- Jax's favorite was the Duke's of Hazard car:


And the Seahawks fleece tie blanket I made (with much help from Jodi the night before!)him.