Pierson's 11th Birthday!

11 years old!  What?!  Getting way too big for mom's liking.  Pierce had a great birthday, it was a packed day with the 24th festivities and birthday celebrating.  Like always!  We started the morning with his fav kind of muffin and a little happy birthday singing.  

My BYU crew at the parade

This boy loved some saltwater taffy! 

Sadly the parade was awful this year.  We were so disappointed.  The Washington Stake was no longer putting on the Pioneer Day parade and so rather than lots of darling primary kids and missionaries and cute floats, it was now a "Days of '47 Parade", which turned out to be a whole lot of businesses trying to advertise, it was ridiculously slow and so long.  Everyone was miserable by the end.  Sad.  

The kids were still excited to do the races though....

Jensen's big 3 year old race!

Madi's 8 year old race!

Pierce's big race... he is always torn over rather to race with the age he's been or the age he's turning that day.  Obviously if he goes with the age he's turning he is the very youngest and it's a harder competition.  I always tell him he can choose, since he really wasn't 11 yet, since he was born at 1:29 in the afternoon.  He ran with the 10 year olds and was excited to place in the top 3.

Winning medal!  The only good thing about the Days of '47 taking over was they now had these fun medals for the kids.

We had such a full day planned that we opted to pick up Pizza Factory for Pierson's dinner out and his big #11 pizza.  Ryan called in take out and we had it at home for lunch.

I was busy making a delicious cake that afternoon and of course had my best little helper around to to make sure the frosting tasted ok.

He was here just a second ago...

What would we do with out this cute face?  Our lives would be awfully dull.

We didn't do a friend party this year, instead Pierce chose more $$ for his birthday gift and we had our cousin party at the Hall's.  This was our 3rd year doing a water game party with them so I guess it's officially a tradition.  All the kids had so much fun and we were glad the Eves were not out of town and could join us this year!  Here are a few highlights...

 Awesome water relay put on by Aunt Crystal!

Go Madi!  Go Dallin! Go Harrison! 

 A HUGE highlight for the kids was getting to play with Uncle Jeff's new addition to his St. George Fun business, Beat the Bucket, it was a riot!

 Thatcher and Bridger getting dumped on!

 Logan, Harrison and Kelton getting dumped on!

 Brooke & Ellie

 Matthew and Harrison

The birthday boy got a little surprise from Dad and Ellie!

 Kelton & Madi

 The birthday boy!

Another now favorite game thanks of Aunt Crystal, the frozen t shirt race!  Each family had a t shirt and had to work together, Robison, Halls and Eves!

 Cake Time! 

Jens loves birthday candles and Pierce is so good to let him in on the candle action and let him help him.  Such a sweet big brother.

We enjoyed the delicious cake and then ended the night with our now tradition of watching the fireworks at the cemetery with Todd and Grandpa.  I brought glow sticks for all the kids and attempted a picture, some day I'll get good at night time shots.  I hope.

What a great fun filled day with cousins.  Pierce had a great day!