Jake's 7th B-Day Party

Jake's actual birthday is a few days off still, but his party was today. He invited a bunch of his buddies from school and sports teams and said he wanted to have a sports birthday party. He wanted to play basketball, football and baseball, which we were fine with as we didn't really have any other better ideas.

Well imagine our surprise when we woke up to 3" of snow this morning. Luckily, the streets stayed clear and we were able to have the party still. The boys decorated their own team "jerseys" and then we moved up to Tanner and Jake's hoop in their room for the first event of the day, "The Jake's 7th Birthday 2 on 2 Basketball Tournament". We split up into teams and played three games of the first to three. Jake's team came in first. Then it was downstairs for pizza. The sun came up and it warmed up to a balmy 35 degrees.

After pizza it was three on three flag football in the street out in front of our house (the grass was soaked from the snow). Jake, Jonus and James v. Tyler, Ryan and Sean with Jackson (the 2nd grader) as full time QB. Tanner and I were the ref's. He had a flag for penalties and I belw the whistle to clear the field when a car came through. We played for the better part of the hour and I was frozen solid by the time we went inside.

Jake wanted donuts instead of birthday cake (what kid doesn't like cake?), so after donuts and juice they boys went up for a free throw shooting free for all. Then back out into the freezing cold for a final game of three flies you're up.

Jake had a great time. He ended up getting two footballs, a football mouthgaurd, a foot ball board game and some nerf guns from all his friends. It was a good party and pretty low key all the way around. He did great in all the games, there was no showboating, no fits and he did really well playing will all his buddies.

We just got the email from the Little League Coach (not me woo hoo!), letting us know the season starts April 10th. Marisa and I head for Arizona this week for a little Spring Training Giants break without the kids (woo hoo again!), daylight savings time starts tonight, so even with the snow, we can't have much longer to go until spring.