Tanner's birthday party re-cap

Tanner had a wonderful day. Thanks for all of the birthday wishes. Tanner loves to read the comments.
He got to start celebrating his BIG day, a day early. Aunt Petra came down & took him to lunch. She started this tradition a few years back & the boys look forward to it every year. He got to pick the restaurant...any guesses? He chose Costa Vida, it is his absolute favorite right now.

{Tanner's lunch date, Aunt Petra}
I struggle each year to get his invites out & the party planned. I am so exhausted after Christmas...throwing another party is the last thing on my mind. We asked Tanner what he wanted to do for his party & he said "play soccer". So that's what we did. We invited a few friends, played two soccer games down @ the park, had pizza, enjoyed cupcakes, & opened presents. Let me just tell you. this party, with eight, 10year old boys was much better than the one I threw for him when he was in preschool at the age of 4. We had thirteen, 4 years old & it was INSANE! We enjoyed the 10 years old this year.



{a few rounds of dog piles-such a boy thing}


{opening presents}






One last photo. I LOVE this one. John was playing Goalie. It was hard to keep Brody off the field. I was afraid he was going to get smacked in the face with the soccer ball. That is Brody in the yellow jacket with his blankie in tow. LOVE IT!
Happy Birthday Tan-man!