Jake’s 11th Birthday Olympics

Today I finally had a chance to look at the 400+ photos taken at Jake’s 11th birthday party! That’s waaaaay too many pictures, but there was a lot that went on the evening of September 30th! Going through them has made me smile from ear to ear! Jake is so blessed to have spent a wonderful evening with family and friends. Ok so lets be honest, there’s a few late nights involved in getting this all together for my sweet boy so I’m really just thrilled that I made it through and everything exceeded my expectations.

The weather was beautiful and we happened to have the day off school so Jake and Drew got to play a round of golf with Dad and Uncle Bob to start out the day! lucky! Jake shot one of his best rounds too. Way to go golfers! By the way, I was home slaving away kiddos;)

At 5:30pm the Olympic Games began! We started out with an opening ceremony with a torch and the athlete parade. This is the best group of people to do this with…these kiddos love competing!

EVENT 1: Soccer Shootout. points winner: Jake (we had a few on the DL)

EVENT 2: Javelin (points winners: Aidan & Jackson)

Event 3: Long Jump (points winner: Jackson)

Event 4: Swimming Relay (carrying a water balloon on a spoon while wearing goggles and using your free arm to do a swim stroke) HILARIOUS!!!

Event 5: Sprint (points winner: Jackson) These kids are crazy fast runners and it was UPHILL!! I’m guessing that a few of them were sore the next morning!

Event 6: Putting Contest (Points winners: Jake, Reece, Aidan, & Max)

And our overall winners by a tight margin were…

Bronze : Jackson Mervosh (58 points)

Silver: Aidan Boehmer (62 points)

Gold: Jake Conley Bday Boy (64 points)

Congratulations athletes…all of you were such great sports and absolutely a blast to watch!

Jake received so many nice cards and gifts – anything and everything sports and this 11 year old is a very happy guy (and spoiled rotten)!

I cannot even describe how much fun all of us had (kids and adults!)…this might be my favorite party yet! Except I think I may say that every time. I think I’m actually ‘for real’ this time!

Thank you Jake for being awesome and telling me thank you multiple times for all that went in to planning this party. I enjoyed every minute of it (sleep deprived and burnt from my hot glue gun and all). I love you so much buddy. Thank you friends and family for taking time out of your crazy busy schedules to celebrate with our family. Seriously…a total blast!