Happy Birthday Papa

My Dad's Birthday was October 9th and he hadn't met Ezra yet, so my Mom helped us fly... well Ezra, Rowdy and I, out to surprise my Dad for his birthday. Nan came and picked us up at LAX and luckily we made it home with all four of her doors. Rowdy opened the car door and almost got it smashed off by a car in the carpool lane. It took all of our brain power to come up with these creative ways to surprise my Dad and then unknowingly he foiled plan A, plan B, and Plan C! So we ended up just walking in his front door on a Tuesday evening. He was still pretty surprised! In the process we also got to introduce Ezra to Pops, Letti, D and their family, Aunt Lindy, Grandma and Grandpa Bowler, Monica and a whole bunch of our California friends. For my Dad's Birthday he wanted to take Rowdy and my Mom to Lego Land! They had so much fun! Then as another Birthday surprise Locke,Katie and Armanie came down for the weekend! So we got to celebrate Dad's birthday with them too. and watching the kids play together was totally priceless. We had such a fun week. Thanks for everybody that went out of their way to help us get out and around and pour love on the boys. Here are some pics (pretty much in backwards order)

Jay Wilson, Ezra Jay's namesake

This is the only PIcture I had of Pops. We went to eat at Pinnacle Peak's one night. mmmm

Cole going through a punk rock phase :)

Pumpkin patching

Letti and Paisley

Armanie and Rowdy at the pumkin patch

Katie and Ezra

Fun with Uncle Locke

The Ice cream man came by and we couldn't resist

Ezra's Great grandma Bowler

Great Grandpa Bowler

Monica came and spent a night at my parent's house.

Papa and Yaya set up a tent in the back yard and put in the queen size air mattress! They all had so much fun they spent 3 nights out there!

and when that was done Rowdy slept in a little tent in the playroom. Yaya read him lots of stories in here

Games with Nan

Babies are hard work!