John's birthday in pictures

I'm not going to give you the play-by-play of the big birthday bash. I'll save you that. However, I will give you a bulleted edition and then give you a bunch of photos, courtesy Jim, who is the best photographer I know.

The party was awesome! It was everything I hoped for. I wish I could have changed one thing though: I arrived after John! I know. Duh. But, sometimes things are out of your control when you have two kids in the back seat. Oh well. If that was all that went wrong, it was a good day. The highlights were:

• all of our good friends in one place
• the perfect weather - overcast but warm therefore no worries about getting overheated or sunstroke
• swimming in the cold lake - my kids loved that. Some of the other kids were a bit smarter.
• John taking the kids for rides in the inflatable dingy
• Dawn's leaches (okay, not so great but funny when you look back on it. Not for Dawn probably).
• Great food (pat on the back to me)
• A well-decorated cake and extremely tasty I'm told. It was carrot with cream cheese icing.
  
• The kids playing with all the bubbles.
• how well all the kids played together regardless of age or if they had met before.
• lots of laughs.
• John being surprised by who was there.
• no one getting lost.
• At the end, wishing we could start back at the beginning and do it all again.

And now for the photos.....