Drew IV

Our little Rocky Balboa is FOUR today!  On Saturday we held his birthday party at the local park and what other theme could we have but Rocky!

Yep that's the invitation I made!!

The star of the day... our own Drew Rocky Balboa.

The cake I slaved HOURS on (of course some of the "seam" fell off in the transfer from home to the park)

L-R: Elijah, Heather, Steve

Thankfully the weather was fantastic (thunderstorms the night before) so the kids could play in the splash park.
L-R: Naomi, Charlize, Drew, Jayce

  Drew getting water from the "fountain"

Cousin Kady and Drew

 Drew showing his Rocky muscles

Drew and his "Adrians" showing muscles.
L-R: Drew, Zionna, Naomi

Time to sing Happy Birthday to the star of the show....
L-R: Elijah, Drew, Zionna and Mason

The fake candle blow-out.  The wind kicked up just then so we couldn't get a single candle lit.

Someone is going for the sneak attack....

And it's all caught on camera!

For background music Dave had a playlist of Rocky theme songs from various soundtracks.  When the "training song" came on, Drew decided to do some "training"

 At one point he even had all the kids running after him, just like the kids did in Rocky II.

Then it was time to open presents....

L-R: Adrina, Rana (my brother Matt's fiance), Naomi

 It cracked me up how all the kids hovered around Drew to open gifts.  They even handed their own gifts to Drew to open up.
L-R: Zionna, Elijah, Troy, Naomi (hidden a bit), Riley, Drew in the chair.

Josh and Rhiannon looking on

And saving the best for last... Uncle Doug, Aunt Connie, Grammy and GrampC behind the camera

There were a few other classmates and friends we didn't apparently get pictures of.  The park is pretty big so it was hard for us to be in all places.  For lunch we served pizza for the kids and of course Philly Cheesesteaks for the adults. 

We thank all of our family and Drew's friends who came to make it such a special day for him.  He really felt pretty good about it - as did Mom and Dad.