7 is heaven

Birthdays around here are affectionately called Birthday Hanukkahs because they go on for several days and nights...and this year was no exception.

Friday night we celebrated with just the four of us.  The Mayor chose Mexican as his meal of choice...again, no surprise there.  It was nice having a quiet meal before the fun chaos of the weekend started.

After the Saturday morning ride/run on the greenway, The Mayor and D brought donuts home for everyone to enjoy.  The afternoon flew by and before we knew it, The Mayor's friends were being dropped off and it was time for the birthday celebration to begin.  D and Love Bug were going to have a fun daddy/daughter night and The Mayor and I took off with his three best buddies.  We went to an indoor trampoline park for the boys to jump for two hours.  The boys had an amazing time but I learned a couple of lessons: 1.) don't take four 6-7 year old boys to an indoor trampoline park on a Saturday afternoon by yourself.  The park was too crowded for my liking especially since three of the four boys didn't belong to me.  Thankfully it cleared out after the first 30 minutes and I was able to relax a bit without worrying I was going to lose one in the crowd and 2.) two hours is a really long time to jump.  The plan was to go get pizza after we jumped, but they boys were too tired they wanted to just go home!  So instead of pizza, we ran to Five Guys and ate burgers and fries.  No lie: we were in and out in less than 20 minutes.  Those boys were ready to get home.

the boys jumping

love these boys...great friends

After a quick dinner, we came home to open presents, eat cookie cake and hang in the basement for movie night.  They did find a small second burst of energy and had pillow fights and wrestled around but believe it or not, those boys were soundly sleeping before 10:30.  Success!

Sunday morning everyone was up around 7:00 and we had breakfast, got dressed and headed to church where the sleepover officially ended.  After church was lunch and then home where the kids played with some friends for a few hours while I cleaned the house from the weekend.  At 5:00, my family came over for a little family celebration.  We kept it super easy...pizza and lots of fun playing with our cousins.  The weather was perfect so The Mayor, Love Bug, Bennett and Walker played outside, J and D got to enjoy football and Meega, PopPop and I got to visit.

Turning 7 is heaven...for The Mayor and all of us.  It was an amazing weekend!  We will still have one more family celebration when we get to see MeMe and Big Daddy!

the Sunday night family celebration