Parties get easier and easier as the kids get older!

I thought last year was easy with cupcakes and inflatables, but this year was by far the easiest!

Drew decided to have a sleepover with all his closest buddies which totaled 9 rambunctious boys and one ornery little brother.

It was quite...interesting.

It's easy to entertain boys.... SPORTS. 

They played outside. Played lots of wiffle ball. Rode bikes....

We ordered sandwiches and had cake and ice cream. {See below for video.}

Very chill night. 

OK, well it wasn't "chill", it was wild, but much less stressful for me with no party planning. :)

I wanted to do something fun so while at Party City picking up supplies I grabbed bottles and bottles of silly string and decided that I would let him have a silly string fight.

They had a blast doing so!!!

They stayed up quite late. Three kids were out before midnight, but the rest were up talking and talking and talking. I heard Drew say a little after midnight: "Guys. It is past 12:00. We made it!"

Then they were all out by 1:00 a.m. Hahaha.

But have no fear...somehow they were all up bright and early and back outside playing wiffle ball at 7:00am!!!

Drew had a such a good time. He smiled the whole time. It was one of his favorite birthday parties yet!

Oh--forgot to mention that since of his best buds moved away I asked his Mom if it was okay if we Facetimed him during the party to include him! The kids all loved catching up with Keegan & of course we captured a picture to include him! We miss Keegan so much! :)

The next day was his actual birthday which was also Mother's Day, so we decided to get together with both sides of our family for his birthday dinner/Mother's Day dinner. This way he wouldn't be running crazy all day on his birthday.

I do not think our family has been together like that since our wedding, so it was nice for us to have everyone there together.

Before we hit up some Giant City Lodge (Drew's pick & favorite) he wanted to spend some time at Castle Park.

I can not believe my child is 8 years old. It's so crazy how time flies. It really is.

He has grown up to be such an amazing kid and I couldn't be anymore proud of him!

I need to get back on track. I am so OCD and like things in order chronologically including my blog posts which I know I am missing some things and it is just going to drive me bonkers.

So instead I am going to try to play a little catch up real quick and vow to try to keep this up to date. (chronologically..for my insanity.)

This year has just flown by so quickly. I can not believe it is 1/2 way over. We have just been so crazy crazy with life. Going here and there, everywhere. I have been horrible about taking pictures of our life. Something that I totally regret.

So..without further ado---here are some photo dumps...

We celebrated Justin's 30th with some friends uptown...

Still just trying to keep up with this rascal who always keep me busy.

 Scheduled the boys eye exams. How cute is this? For realz.

Dylan's soccer season came and went oh so quickly...

I took my camera to two games of his. One of them being the wettest-rainiest game ever.

Drew's travel baseball has started. Luckily, we do not have to travel too far. It is so fun to watch and he just LOVES to play! 

Drew also had his FIRST ever school presentation. It was one of the cutest things ever. I just melted listening to him speak. It was Great Americans Day and each child picked a Great American to do a report on. Drew chose Babe Ruth. They dressed up like their person. He was so stinking cute!

One of the highlights of his 2nd grade year by far!

After soccer was over for Dylan we headed straight into baseball...

And how could I ever leave out turkey hunting with Grandpa? 

The boys annual turkey hunting trip with Grandpa was an awesome one this year because they actually got a turkey!

It has been such a busy last few months, but I would not change it for anything!

Okay, well--I wish I would have taken more pictures! LOL. ;)

500 years later I am re-capping Easter.

When I say our life has been crazy, that is an understatement!

Gahh....so busy, yet I love it.

Can't complain one bit!

This Easter was pretty simple. We stayed in town all day so it was nice not having to go a bazillion places. The Easter Bunny brought some good stuff for the boys and we had a nice relaxing day...