Happy Birthday Levi and Eli

This morning, we all loaded up and went to the ice hockey rink for Levi and Eli Bear's birthday party. We did not go into the party with high expectations. There was no way on earth that we expected Zachary to enjoy an ice skating party. He had roller skates, but we had to exchange them because he was scared to death when we put them on his feet. The party started off very wobbly. Here's a picture of Andrew Staples (Zachary's best bud) and Zachary on the skates when they first put them on.

After that, the boys got familiar with the ice. Ray, being the brilliant man that he is, brought some chairs out onto the ice for the kids to use to hold on to (and Marty and April, too). After a few minutes, both Andrew and Zachary started getting the hang of it. I took a short, but hilarious, video of Zachary after he got comfortable on the ice.

The Bear boys were in full hockey gear. They were all over the ice and having fun playing with Thrash and their pucks and sticks.

Us southerners aren't that good at ice skating, but we were very impressed that Zachary had a ball. One last picture of the hockey birthday cakes (notice the Zamboni and hockey sticks on the cakes)...

What a fun morning. All day, Zachary has been asking when he can go back and ice skate again. Who would have thought?

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Today's Bible Verse:

I lift up my eyes to the hills -- where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. -Psalm 121:1-2