Happy 11th Birthday

 It's just so crazy how fast time flies. We are at another birthday for Max and I feel like we celebrated for a couple of weeks since he had a birthday celebration in WI while we were there. By the way, he thought that was pretty cool that people came over to celebrate him.

Max celebrated with his school friends at Top Golf. We had two bays and plenty of food. It was kind of warm outside, but the fans and misters helped. The heat didn't stop these boys from being crazy and having a good time. 

After the party a few of the boys went over to Grayson's house to continue the party in the pool. Max had such a fun day celebrating with his school buddies. He was pretty exhausted once he got home.

Max woke up on his birthday with the annual string of balloons hanging in his doorway. The night before after we hung them one popped at 10:30 at night. It was super loud and sounded like a gun shot. Andy flew out of bed...almost fell out of bed....freaking out. I just busted out laughing! I was surprised Max didn't even wake up at all. He didn't even move. In the morning he was surprised to hear about the balloon popping. He was so sound asleep that I wanted to go check his pulse. I just couldn't believe that anybody could sleep through that noise...but leave it to Max. He can sleep through anything. 

After pottery camp, Max got home and opened his gifts.

We went to dinner at the restaurant of Max's choice, Angry Crab. He loves crab and requested it for his birthday.

On the way home we stopped by to pick up a blizzard so we can do our annual photo and sing Max happy birthday on his official birth date. 

Shouting happy birthday to the best son ever! He's such a sweet boy and I wish he could stay an innocent sweet child forever. Happy 11th birthday!!!

Camp Wisconsin

 We are in Summer mode and that means camps. Max did a week at cooking camp, golf camp, camp WI and he will end his camps at a pottery camp. It was Max's idea to spend a week in WI with his grandparents, but he wasn't ready to be so far away from mom and dad. After some discussion, it was decided that I would fly him back and work all week since I can go into the Madison office, if I want to, while Max spends time at each of his grandparents homes.

First up, Camp Grandma L. They had a fantastic time picking strawberries. Max thought this was a lot of fun and the best part is he brought me some fresh strawberries at the end of the week. 

They also went up to the Dells to ride the Ducks and feed some farm animals. I kept giving Max a hard time asking him if the Ducks quacked. He thought it was funny. 

Next, it was Camp Grandpa T and Grandma L's turn to hangout with Max. They took him mini-golfing.

Put him to work.

He got to see Beau. 

Play video games and win prizes.

Tried swimming but they arrived right before there was swim lessons so open swim was canceled.

Last up, Camp Grandpa J and Grandma V. They went to tour a cheese factory only to be disappointed that the tour was more of looking through a glass while the guide spit out some facts. Following the cheese factory they went to Sassy Cow for lunch and ice cream.

After I got off work we all went bowling with Tayler and Batu as well.

The last day of camp Max went to the Shalom Zoo which is a natural habitat zoo for the animals. The three of them really enjoyed the zoo and highly recommend it to others.

We ended camp WI with a surprise birthday party for Max. His great aunts and uncles came over for some cake, ice cream and lots of laughter. 

Max had the best time at Camp WI! He said he wants to do two weeks next summer.