Kick Ass Birthday

My son provided for us the opportunity to have a down right kick ass birthday party. He turns 9 actually today at 7:36pm, but yesterday was Sunday and a perfectly beautiful Sunday for a party.
My family: dad, two aunts 3 cousins and two brothers came. They are always a blast, very individualistic and always hilarious with their witty social commentary and expressive personalities.
My brother Isaac, the oldest of the three, gave us basement tips and bonded with my dad over solving the problem of our ever flooding basement ripe with creative downspouting and evolutionary ways of draining through our sewer system.
By middle brother Herby a comic relief and sport-o kid master kept himself busy with the 11 children present.
My cousin Philip, the quiet one who served in Iraq and has a beamer is insightful and has a gentle smile for everyone.
Micah the big teddy bear humanist is the rock-star for children ready to be climbed on or talk tech to, he also has a gentle nature that makes Friends easily.
Emily my young cousin still searching idealistic and ever hopeful talked Dan with us and children's names, as I said always hopeful.
My dad was ever excited about his new Love "Peg" short for Pegasus representing his new $20,000 flight investment. .Soon he will take to the sky in his parachute plane after tackling the internet training and flight hours. The real challenge will be the internet.
Gayla the lovey feely laughy aunt and Gwynn the planning beautiful matriarch fun loving aunt both represented and in the "house."
I love my family so much and even more because it is my father's side and I am his adopted daughter. My brothers and share a mother (another very long story) but Gear Bear (Gary) adopted me when I was 4.
Also Joel's family was there. One sister, brother in law, niece, mom, and stepdad. A quieter bunch, I have slowly built a good relationship with each of these people, Annaka my one and only niece/nephew is such a blessing to have in our family, aged perfectly between my two daughters it couldn't have been planned better. I love them and am growing everyday to appreciate them more.
But the spankinest part of the party was having my growing friendships, which have been increasingly important to my adult life, meet and greet with my family. Annie Bananie, and Angela have been an increasing influence, mostly bad and hysterically funny but necessary, on my well being, their husbands Erin (who I adore as a human being and has befriended my husband) and Jay, who I admire greatly for his constant (I'm sure socially shy induced) attention to his children.. It reminds me of my dad when I was young. My mom was often drinking or in need of a break from 4 kids so I remember him getting up with my brothers in the night, covering me up, playing baseball, building stuff for us, and hanging out by the team for all our sporting events. He took me hunting, fishing, camping, and on bike rides. Dads are really important.
Annie Angela and I have 10 children combines. Our three families could start out own nation and very possibly populate with very little fear of inbreeding.
This combined made our party fantastic.

We played badminton with Angela embarrassing my husband with naughty talk. Annie, kicking butt with her new Karate belted energy, and the kids giving it their all. We played "whores" with basketball but for lack of shots made we ended up just trying hard to make one and laughing a lot.

We ate a lot 1 whole cake and 20 cupcakes 30+brats a dozen hamburgers and 20 hotdogs.

We were a large fantastic family of friends and relatives.

Thanks all