Football with Friends

If you haven't noticed, not only Denver has Tebow fever, but the entire country!  It's hard not to jump on the Tebow band wagon and root for the Denver Broncos, especially when they are playing just down the road (kind of).  The Ham Fam is no exception.  Their winning streak has us fired up, especially Oliver.  He insists on wearing his Broncos shirts.  Yes, shirts, plural.  He has a long sleeve and a short sleeve which he insists on wearing together.  Unfortunately, he has recently had a growth spurt and the two Broncos shirts are now belly shirts, which are completely inappropriate for anyone, especially a four-year-old boy.  So... he now has a new Broncos shirt with BRONCOS down the sleeve and a horse figure on the front.  Life couldn't get any better, unless he was back to having two shirts to wear.

Meanwhile, the poor second child doesn't have any Broncos shirts.  Instead, he has a World's Best Little Brother shirt in blue and orange.  It works for team spirit and he really must be the World's Best Little Brother since he doesn't seem to mind that he doesn't have a single Broncos shirt to wear on game day and his older brother can't say the same.

During a recent Broncos victory, the one that clinched a seat in the playoffs, we joined the Martin's for the big game.  Their son Cole is only 3 days younger that Kellan and the two of them were not shy to belly up to the snack bar, front and center.

Oliver and Owen have been buddies since nearly day one, literally.  They met (if you want to call it that) when they were infants at Primrose.  They have grown up together since then but this fall, Owen transferred to a school closer to his house.  Fortunately, their two Mom's bonded over maternity leave for son #2 and we get to see the Martin's regularly.  Like Kellan and Cole, Oliver and Owen are nearly the same age as Oliver is only 10 days older than Owen.  Crazy, eh?!

Any party is a good time when there is personal pizzas in the making.  The dialogue probably went something like this.

Oliver: "Owen, this is how you squeeze pizza sauce on the pizza.  You have to squeeze it like this, because this is how you do it.  Ok?"

Owen: "Dude.  You know we're making our own pizzas?  It's so cool.  Can I put sauce on my pizza?  Dude, your sauce is over the edge.  Whoa."

(Ok, maybe I exaggerated Oliver's instructions, kind of.  I may have also exaggerated Owen's Dude talk, kind of.  These two are too funny to listen to)

Owen going for the perfect squirt while Oliver goes for the perfect smear.

Ta Da!

The kitchen was fresh out of pepperoni, but a nice big piece of salami was the perfect topping.

(take note, little brother is moving in on the action, sneaky, sneaky)

We had a GREAT time!

The boys had fun, the adults got to watch the WHOLE game and the Broncos Won!