Ben's 7th Birthday

Saturday was Ben's 7th Birthday!

Rather than a friend birthday party he chose to watch the K-State spring football game in

Manhappiness AKA Manhattan!

Grandma and Grandpa McVay and Autie Al went with us!Our 2010 Family Portrait
Ben invited his friend Trev. Here are the three of them in smiles!

Playing football in the parking lot before it got crowded.

Jake blowing up a capri sun pouch so he could put it on the ground and stomp it!

Ben and Trev

Ben with his cake...Nothing says first grader like missing front teeth!

It was only appropriate to have a wildcat cake for his birthday.

The basketball players were signing autographs at 4:30.

This was the boys "patiently" waiting...AKA BORED!
We never got autographs even after standing in line for 1.5 hours.

But, we did get our picture with Willie Wildcat!

We didn't get autographs but I did get some pictures.

Above is Jacob Pullen.

As mom and I gave up waiting in line because they were "closing the line" in 5 minutes and were 15 feet back, we saw Coach Frank Martin. I did his autograph for the boys. My mom was so "giddy" she forgot to take our picture....

It is ok mom I forgive you for not taking my picture, he was pretty handsome!

I would have lost concentration too-ha, ha!

Above is Josh Freeman (Tampa Bay), Jordy Nelson (Green Bay Packers) and other miscellaneous players. They dedicated the spring game to a Dylan Meier who passed away last week from a hiking incident. Numerous players wore his jersey in memory of him.

It was very touching.
The boys saw Jordy Nelson and went NUTS.....They kept yelling his name until he looked up and waved at us! The boys were on FIRE after that!

Ben, Trev and Jacob looking at the band and NOT the cheerleaders.

I am glad to know the hormones haven't kicked in and that girls are still YUCKY!

At half time they allowed the kids on the field for a "shoe run." They put all the shoes in a bag and whoever found their shoes, put them on and ran back first won an autographed football from Bill Snyder.

There were two age groups, 5 and under and 6 and older.

Ben and Trev waiting for their age group to go.

The bad thing was I had just tightened Ben's shoes (laces) and he was the very LAST one to come back in his age group. He was on the big screen with the help of Willie and some others cheering him on! That was 2nd time Ben was on the big screen but of course he made a silly face not realizing it was playing on the big monitors. Can I say ALL BOY!?!

Josh Freeman signing autographs.

We left early and started packing up. About that time a car drove by with some of the football players with Meier's jerseys. The windows were tinted in the back so I couldn't see who was in the back seat. Regardless, they handed us 9 of the purple bracelets that is shown above. I thanked them and Luke realized in the back seat was Ian Campbell. I yelled WAIT and they stopped. I asked Ian if he would mind posing in a picture with Ben since it was his birthday. He got out and was very gracious. I offered all of them in the car birthday cake but they declined. I don't think cake goes with beer, but still they were very polite.

The kid driving the car didn't tell us his name but I saw his picture in the paper the next day and it was Russ Vanover. He went to school in our town a few years ago. I don't think we lived here when he went to school here. Not 100% sure.

Otherwise, it was a great day. Lots of fun and memories!