Eli a Terrific Birthday Had

For those of you who don't recognize it that is Yoda speak for "Eli had a terrific birthday". It was a full weekend of birthday fun centering on the Star Wars birthday cookout Saturday night.
Friday I went to school and read some of his favorite books and fed his class cookies. Fun! (for me and him-- I love reading to classes).
Saturday we went in the morning to get pictures made of all three boys. They did well; I will detail and put up pics in another blog later in the week. Saturday afternoon we played around the house and he had 4 friends from the cul-de-sac come over for hot dogs and yoda cake. Yoda turned out pretty well (lets consider I have no Star Wars experience having never seen a movie or been interested in any of it). The cupcakes that we called the 'yodettes' turned out cuter. My neighbor said that everything is cuter in miniature and I think that is true. I made light sabers out of wrapping paper from dollar tree and they had light saber battles.
I think everyone had a great time.
The volume of snoring coming out of the bedrooms Saturday night would be testimony.
Sunday was the actual day of birth and E enjoyed all his birthday calls and messages. He went to his friends party and then we played in the neighborhood, ate pizza and the yodettes, and opened cards and his gifts (he already got the big gift of his new bike a few weeks ago). He said this morning that it was his best birthday ever. I have to agree with him. We kept all the celebrations casual and low key and just let the kids play which is their favorite thing to do.

I am adding a few random pictures of my finally mostly open tulips, my favorite rhododendron which is finally blooming (sorry it is sideways, but not sorry enough to go back on the laptop and edit the picture), and M being M.
Hope everyone has a super week!
love and hugs and can you believe it has been 8 years? B