Cowboy Party Fun! (part 2)

The last game that we did was the 3 legged race.
It was SO funny.

The kids lined up...



And then they were off!



Love this one...



The kids made it to the fence, then turned to come back and it was all sorts of falling down mayhem.




Shannon made this sweet collage of the little girls...



Isaiah and Matthew won!!



Noah was sad, and I think Andrew might have been comforting him...I love his sweet expression.



Dan said he'd do another race with Andrew against some of the big kids, backwards.



Being the competitive guy that he is, Dan picked up Andrew and ran the race.
(Look at Isaiah and Matthew in the background. :) )



Dan, never one to shy away from celebrating a victory.
Even against small children.

:) (That's a joke between me and Dan.  I'm really not being mean).
Look how cute Andrew is....



And now I'm going to go off on a bit of a tangent and do my own equivalent "Royer Nose" photo.  I promised I'd post one.
It's not of my nose, but something I also avoid posting.  I saw this next photo as I was sitting next to Dan and said, "I don't post photos of myself like that" ~ and Dan said, "but they're good to have."  Which made me realize that I really should put this in here because it's me, and my kids I'm sure will remember this trait of mine....



My crooked smile.

It's at it's worst when I'm laughing....And I share this next part for my kids so they know it isn't a gentic trait.  I can't move the bottom left side of my lip...the muscles in my chin on that side and in my neck on that side don't move.  I can feel them but not move them....a Dr. said it was probably due to nerve damage during child birth which makes sense knowing that I didn't drop in utero after Mom's water broke and the nurse pushed on the outside of mom's stomach to get me out.  Don't think they'd do that these days....Anyway, I was teased a lot about it growing up.  It was the one thing that I was teased about that really stung.  And I definitely don't like photos of it.  But there it is.

Perhaps it had a little something to do why I so fell in love with Dan's smile. (Which Katie has!)  

And here's another smile that I love. 




I love how Andrew can just ooze joy.  You can practically see it coming out of those fingertips.
He just feels it with his whole body, it's so cute.



We came inside and were on to cake!



Dan said to the kids, "Who can sing the loudest?!"

They sang/shrieked to Andrew (so funny) and Andrew's reaction was above. :)

A fun little crowd.  Truly sweet kids....



Presents were up next and I love this one of Claire helping Andrew (that gift was really heavy) because she always looked after Andrew in pre-school.  I wish she were going to kindergarten with him.  I'd know he'd be in good hands. :) 



As the party was winding down I was outside visiting and came in to this sight....



It occurred to me I have never taken any "aftermath photos." This scene was pretty funny. That would be play-dough that was being played with on the carpet.



And this in particular tickled my funny bone.



Katie was responsible for most of this.
Shannon ended up performing the Heimlich maneuver on her during the midst of the craziness. Katie was choking on a piece of apple. Three times and it came up.

Yikes.

Thank goodness Shannon noticed her. I missed the whole thing.



On a side note, the caramel apples tasted good but were SO hard. I chilled them overnight and the caramel got REALLY hard. We cut them into slices, but they were still really hard to eat. Just an FYI if anyone makes them.

And with that, Andrew is officially SIX!