Birthday Extravaganza!

We celebrated David's birthday in style this year! John and Nancy came down for the weekend and on Friday we took them out to the McMenimin's Edgefield for a dinner and a dip the oasis pool. Then Saturday morning we went out for crepes in the Pearl and took John's bike to REI to be fixed. Anxious to get on the road and enjoy the oddly amazing weather we were having John and David decided to bike over to the Hayes' house.

Need to get a good stretch...

John waiting...

They're off!

Just like two peas.

Need to pump up. :)

Nancy and I drove the cars over to bring the supplies and got the party started.

Waiting for people to show the boys trying to think of something to do. Grace gave a David a hula hoop as a birthday gift because "he has such wide hips."


Apparently not.


John's turn.


Adam's got the right idea.

I put this picture in here because David really likes it for some reason. I thought his feet look kind of like a duck's.

Here comes the guests!

Dave arrives with a cooler full of goodies-as usual. :)


Doug and John

Bert


Jesse

Pop and Henry


Faith, Trinity, Anika & Kyra (don't ask me what Mike's doing in the background).

Esther


George and Rachel


Snooze fest.


The Guys.

The Gals.

Now, you may be wondering why did we have a party at the Hayes' house when we have a perfectly good home for this sort of thing? Well, on David's actual birthday we were given a surprise that we would rather not have possessed. The plumbing issue we had back in November had resurfaced and we were unable to use any kind of plumbing devices in the home. We could not get our water to drain. David first tried to snake it out himself, but to no avail. We called a the company who came and helped us last time and they discovered that the pipe at the end of our driveway was disconnected and was causing a backup.

At first we had thought it was going to cost us $4,000-$5,000 to get this fixed since we would have to get someone to come out tear up and repave the driveway. However, it looks like the break is actually where the strip of grass/dirt between the sidewalk and street. David got the permits to dig and is going to get started on that tomorrow. The pipe is 6 feet below the ground! Praise God that it will (hopefully) only be a fraction of what we originally thought it would cost. Please pray that all goes well.