joel's birthday was yesterday, but i have no pictures to prove it.

joel turned a year older yesterday, but i can't make too much fun, because i am a year older than he is. i am double old. we celebrated by having a yummy dinner, yummy cake (it is even yummier for breakfast!) and a low key night at home. family wii night! the kids were overjoyed! i didn't take one picture all night. ugh. i thought i would put some pictures up of something fun joel did recently...

we went to a crawdad's game with our friends the ballentines. (for those of you not from hickory, the crawdad's are the minor league baseball team in our town. it took us a while to get used to the name crawdad, especially since i have never even seen a crawdad around these parts and you know, that they call it a crawDAD.) it was a really fun time! davis got to chase the crawdad across the field, and joel and andrew got to dress up like a big hamburger.

they had to race to build a hamburger. joel is the bun on the ground. andrew had to run back and forth and put the burger, lettuce, pickle, etc. on top of joel and then jump on to complete the burger in the end.
they lost to some teenagers. it was super close in the end. but it was really funny to watch. (at least i thought so.) :)
just one of the reasons why baseball is america's favorite pasttime.

and just one of the reasons why i love joel. happy birthday a day late to my very favorite hamburger bun. love you.