We enjoyed watching Hendrix open his gifts & playing in their treehouse & swinging.

An attempt to get all 12 grandkids in a picture together. Hendrix thought it was pretty special that all of his cousins made it to his birthday party. Mom had the wrong lens & had a hard time getting all of us in the picture.

This guy surprised Hendrix for his birthday party & we all had to get our picture taken with him. Hendrix was pretty excited!

We went to Hendrix’s house for his 7th birthday party!

Ryan, who is a total charmer. I (Wyatt) was particularly fond of Ryan. I cuddled him, held him, played with him, semi-tackled him & he loved every bit of it. If he was around, I was right there with him. He is 10 months.

Pearson

We learned some awesome tricks on our bikes when we were in Iowa. We were quite proud of ourselves. We both learned to ride one-handed. Wyatt tried no-handed for a bit & then fell over. He finally tried again, but it took a couple of days to decide to try again. We rode all over…

Pearson is enjoying some juice & mom snatched a couple pictures of Clara before she hid from the camera.

Most afternoons we all ended up back at Grandma’s for a little bike/scooter/3 wheel/ skateboard riding. Papa & Grandma live on a road that dead ends. The adults hung out with us in the driveway & kept watch for cars. Anytime a car was headed in our direction, they would yell, “Car!”, & we would…

We stopped by Hendrix & Marley’s house for a bit to play. The first week we were in Iowa, it was chilly! We played baseball in the backyard. It was T agains Hendrix, Caden, Pearson & me.