Another Day, Another Birthday Party

We had a splendid time on Saturday celebrating Joel's birthday with lots grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Joel finally got his Batman cake he has been talking about for MANY months and clearly Grant wanted in on some of that licking the frosting off of Batman's feet... check out how close he moved in:) Joel, Grant, and my cousin's daughter Jaelyn

Lincoln was SUCH a cute big cousin, very carefully helping Joel read each and every card before he got to open the present.

If you look closely, you will see tears welling in Grant's eyes. He became so devastated that none of the presents were for him that he hung his head down and quietly cried in the middle of the gift opening. Poor guy. Luckily Grandma Benson came to the rescue with a little package for him.

Bean bag chair from Gpa and Gma Benson was a big hit.

As was the remote control car from Gpa and Gma Kokotovich

Cousins, Lincoln and Jayna

And the team (and their reading glasses) huddle together to begin transformer contruction:)

... and then the real transformer expert steps in to help out the boys. The package that Joel got from Aunt Connie had two transformers in it, and somehow Grant immediately claimed one as his own, and surprisingly, Joel was totally fine with that. He only cared about the race car, the airplane was all Grant's. And on a side note... Grant took that very transformer to church today, where the Pastor just happened to be talking about "transformation", and I was surprised how well Grant was listening to the sermon because each time he heard the word "transformation" his face lit up and he held up his toy and said (loudly) "tranformer?!"

More transforming... a very serious task... no smiling allowed.

Chow time!

My cousin's son Jestin and my mom

Joel, and his "bug" from Aunt Dar and Uncle Rick... the thing is crazy and crawls all over the floor like a little cockroach or something!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to help us celebrate! We had such fun spending time with all of you:)