Mommy's Birthday Party Week

Mommy's early birthday celebration was just as much fun for Ben & Sam as it was for Mommy! The Forbes's family has had quite the exciting past few weeks with all the out of town guests who came to celebrate her birthday. Many of Mommy and Daddy's friends had never met Ben & Sam before, and everyone got along great!

We wanted to take this time to say a big thank you to all of our dear friends. We love you all very much, and miss you all very much! Ben is now saving money to buy a ticket to go to Texas!

Sam always finds time for Erin!

I don't know if this was a good idea, but Sam had fun at dinner!

Bret brought Ben & Sam popsicles and I think Bret was more excited than them!

More fun with Bret!

Jillian's crash course with the Forbes, and she was a big hit with the Forbes boys!

July 4th, Texas Style!

Mimi always wants to bathe us together!

Every morning Pops took the boys on a wagon ride to feed the ducks!

Four of the cousins playing the piano.

They had a BALL!

So much to do at Aunt Susan's!

Connor running with Ben! I told Jay I would pay to have Connor come and play with my boys for a week!

More wagon rides...

Kiki loving on Sambo.

The best part of all, tractor ride with Uncle Steve!

In the end Ben said, "Mommy that sure was a fun day!"

Dallas Trip

The Forbes Family at Going Bonkers!

Daddy even made it!

Ben's favorite cousin!

Mommy's BFF, and Nolan and Sam are going to be as well!

I don't even know where to begin to talk about our Dallas trip. All I can say is it was PACKED with family fun! We didn't tell most of our Dallas friends we were there because it was time to be with Andy's family as we were all rejoicing Mary's (Andy's grandmother) recovery!

Mimi and Pops still wanted to do something for Ben for his birthday, so all of the cousins and a few special friends came to Going Bonkers to celebrate Ben's birthday, AGAIN! Let me just add Going Bonkers is the PERFECT name for that place! But Ben and all the boys had a BLAST! Andy came Thursday evening and had to leave Saturday night. It was a quick trip for him, but the purpose was to see his Granny.

On Ben's actual birthday, July 4th, we went to Aunt Susan's house with the rest of the family to enjoy the day for some fun in the sun. Ben and Sam had so much fun with all their cousins! It made me sad that we are so far away, but hopefully someday we will be back in Dallas permanently!

Our visit with Granny, the boys' great-grandmother, in the hospital. She has MIRACULOUSLY survived a head injury and we were all there to show her how much she is loved.

Here is all 9 of the great grandsons! Aren't they handsome? They have good genes!

And the line-up, minus Will, he was M.I.A. It was hard to get 9 kids all under the age of 10 to line-up for a picture!