Hobbie turned 10 years old on April 23rd. I did not think he was going to make it to be 10. I no, I no, I have a lot more to come.
Since he is now in the double digits we had his big bash at the Nascar Speedpark at the St. Louis Mills Mall. He invited four boys from his class, a neighbor boy, and all of his cousins were there. They all had a great time. The fun started at 3:00pm and we did not leave the mall until around 8:00pm. The plan was to drop all of the boys off at home, but somehow they did a little scheming on the way home and they all ended up spending the night. Not a problem! Eight kids 11 years and under, anyone could do it. I will tell you a little secret....Nascar Speedpark, pizza, Wii, and then a movie = exhaustion.
They had so much to do at the speedpark: rides for the little kids (like Justin, the bigger kids could also ride them if they wanted to), indoor and outdoor go-cart track, rock climbing walls, laser tag, arcade, they also have bumper boats, but they were not open yet for the year. When we go to the mall it looked like it was going to rain. The outside go-carts were open at the time, but while we were doing birthday cake and presents it had started to rain and they closed the track. It was closed for only a little while. When they were waiting in line for laser tag it had stopped raining and they reopened the track. Hobbie was playing an arcade game and these are all of the tickets he won with that one game.
Hobbie thinking he is "the man" while everyone sings 'Happy Birthday' to him. With him is Eric from school, his cousins Amanda and Macenzie and his sister Erin.
Dad passing the presents for Hobbie to open. Big Hobbies brother, Jim, on the far right.
At the end of the day I believe everyone had a good time.
The cousins: Jenna, Justin, Erin, little Gracie, Amanda, and Hobbie.
Gracie was able to have her egg hunt before the bigger kids had their scavenger hunt. At first she was not sure what she was looking for then Jenna started helping her out. Gracie is going to have a baby sister in June.
Pawpaw helping Erin and Jenna with their clue.
Team Green: Jimmy and Justin. Justin usually goes with Jimmy a)because he can not read the clue, and b) if he gets tired of running Jimmy will give him a piggy back ride.
Team Yellow: Erin and Jenna, who could finally read they clues themselves.
One of the prizes the kids got were kits. This is Mandy driving golfie, as the kids call it, down the driveway while Jimmy tries to get his kit up in the air. His kit made it up by the time they got the the end of the driveway and it flew for about ten minutes.
Team Blue: Mandy and Hobbie are always teamed together.
Hobbie got some model rockets from the Easter Bunny. I think dad was just as excited about them as much as he was. We shot them off a couple of times before we had our wonderful dinner that Memaw made.
Justin playing with his balloons that he got as one of his prizes.
