Tate's Water Fight Birthday Party

Tate's Baby Groot Birthday Cake!  

Tate's Awesome mix tape cookies - Guardian of the Galaxy Theme

Miniature cupcakes for Tate's friends.  

Water balloons, lots and lots of water balloons.  Guessing these won't last long once the water balloon fight starts.  It was hard to keep the kids and adults out of the water balloons. 

We filled up over 500 water balloons!

Devin enjoying the water gun fight.  

Cousin Xavier was able to join us for Tate's party.  He had a blast playing with all of the other kids.  

The pirate ship was a huge hit during the water gun fight.  

Grandpa Wolsing helped the kids re-load their water guns.  Grandpa and Uncle Eric even provided some additional fun by bombing the kids with water balloons.  They were launching water balloons to the pirate ship.  

The kids revolted and got Uncle Eric back.  Everyone knows its cool to pee your pants!

The morning weather didn't start out well, but luckily the rain cleared up and provided us the perfect afternoon for a water fight.  

Birthday boy!

Leyton

Oliver

Will & Tate squirting people with their water guns.  They all learned very quickly they could hit more people being higher up!

Pirate ship full of kids

Up next, the water balloon fight.  We divided the group into two teams.  

Tate's class vs everyone else.

Tate preparing to throw his water balloon. 

All smiles.

Looked what showed up!  The Kona Ice truck.  The perfect ending to Tate's party.

Tate showing off all of his favorite flavors.  He loves that he can mix his own flavors!  he even asked if he could get as many as he wanted.  At summer camp, they are only allowed to get 2 flavors.  

Loading up on the flavors. 

Lining up for kona ice.

Grandpa Wolsing enjoying his shaved ice. 

Grandma Wolsing's shaved ice looks amazing. 

I loved how these cupcakes turned out!  Baby Groot cookies in small cupcake pots.  

Singing to the birthday boy!

Opening presents - New shirt from Mamaw & Papaw. 

Opened up some money, that he can't wait to put in his wallet.

Legos from Uncle Eric & Xavier.  I think Tate likes them.

Love the look on his face!  He was so excited to open up the Rocket Fishing pole.

Road Trip to Cincinnati

Our first stop on our road trip to Cincinnati was Hemlock Cliffs in the Hoosier National Forest.  It's a little off the beaten path, but well worth the stop.

The loop around is just a little over 1 mile.Great way to burn off some energy and break up the drive.  

Climbing down the rocks heading towards the cliffs and water fall.

You can see the waterfall behind the boys.  It had recently rained, so water was flowing over the edge.

Further up the path, we had to climb over logs that were recently placed due to a mudslide.  The hillside had given out in some of the recent heavy rains.  

Stopped on the bridge for a group photo.

L-R; Stacey, Grandma Wolsing, Devin, Tate, and Xavier

Such a cool rock feature. You can see all of the layers of rock stacked on top of each other. 

Finishing our hike at Hemlock Cliffs.  After our hike, we made our way towards Louisville.  

Grandma and I took the boys to the Louisville Slugger Museum.  It is a museum and factory tour.  They make all of their bats in this location.  During the tour we saw how they take timber and turn them into billets, which they turn on a lathe to make bats of all shapes and sizes.  They have a CMC machine that turns professionals bats in about 30 seconds.  

Tate is holding a Louisville Slugger bat that was actually used in a MLB game.

Louisville slugger bats used in games that you could check out.

Devin managed to throw 3 strikes!  

Tate threw balls and walked his batter.

Xavier taking his turn as the pitcher.  

Out front with the HUGE Louisville Slugger baseball bat. 

It's so big I couldn't get the whole bat in the picture. 

Posing with their new mini baseball bats. After our tour, we checked out the rest of the museum.  Then we headed to lunch.  We tried out a new restaurant called the Garage.  We had some great pizza and an amazing burger. Then after lunch we headed to the pedestrian bridge across the Ohio River.  

This used to be a train bridge before it was turned into a pedestrian bridge.  They recreated the tracks down the entire bridge.  

A picture in the middle of the bridge.  

We walked from Kentucky to Indiana and back.  Then we hopped in the Jeep and headed towards Cincinnati.  All of the boys were looking forward to getting to the hotel so they could go swimming in the indoor pool.  

We had a great day!