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Today our Young Adult group held its 3rd Annual Field Day. It's all about reliving games from your elementary days. This year's game lineup included: dizzy bat layup, tricycle races, egg spoon relay, three legged race, sack race, toilet seat horseshoes, water balloon launch, jumbo golf, tug o war, and tiki thunder hockey.

Here's Eric kicking off the dizzy bat layup relay.

Pete shows us how to ride the tricycle.

Don't drop that egg, Amy!

Apparently, the most efficient way to transfer the potato sack to the next person in the relay was for the person finishing their leg to dive on the ground and the next person to pull the sack off their legs.

Surprisingly, tricycles can be used by toddlers as well as adults. Molly and Owen had a great time on them.

Yes, we had an event where we tossed toilet seats at a stake in the ground, similar to horseshoes. Gabe had very good form.

Here's Susan about to launch the water balloon for Andrew to catch.

Owen is ready to help his dad with his giant golf chip shot.

And finally, here's the whole gang.

Friday night we celebrated Caroline's graduation/18th birthday with a very large party (mostly teenagers, only a few of us old fogies).

We spent much of our time on the back porch, where Chad and I got a break as Molly was entertained by Aunt EA and lots of jumping.

Molly was happy to see Aunt Caroline, but she of course didn't stop eating cake. Nothing's better than cake.

Molly made sure that she was at the center of attention, and the circle, as much as possible.

Another fun activity was to run around the house with Aunt EA.

Chad and I took an early anniversary trip to Stonewall Resort in WV. I wasn't really up for a car ride at the end of July while 8 months pregnant, so we celebrated early.

It was a nice, relaxing weekend. We treated ourselves to massages (a first for Chad), and only left the resort once to check out this glass blowing shop. We got to see them making these glass "kisses."

The weather was perfect for sitting and enjoying the view of the lake,

and taking a boat cruise on the lake.

Click here to see a few more pictures of our exploration of the grounds and the boat cruise.

My youngest sister, Caroline, graduated from high school this past week. She even was selected (along with 3 of her friends) to sing at the ceremony. This is some video from the graduation, primarily including their song.

Easter morning was a lot of fun, especially due to the jelly beans, as Jen previously wrote about.

Here's a video with some of the best clips from Molly's second birthday party a couple of months ago, which Jen already talked about.

We celebrated my 29th birthday last weekend. Sunday, Molly and Chad treated me to dinner at Eggspectations. Molly was in a very cuddly mood before we left.

On Monday, we celebrated again with more family. As you can see, I was very excited about my Cheesecake Factory birthday cake - half banana cream, half white chocolate raspberry!

Chad likes to say now I'm in my 30th year, but I kindly remind him that I'm only 29 and not "old" like him!

We had a follow-up ultrasound yesterday. The main reason was to do an in-utero Echo due to our family history of heart murmurs. We got good news all around. The baby's heart looks great, and as far as the doctor could tell, the baby did not inherit Chad's heart murmur. I am also no longer at risk due to a low-lying placenta. We'll go back again in July for another follow-up to check on some fluids and measure the baby's growth. Currently, she's measuring in the 66% on growth.

Here's her newest portrait. Yes, it is the same pose she showed us in April. It looks like she's got her hand on her forehead, stressing about all this growing she's got to do!

Yesterday we celebrated Chad's 30th birthday! It was a low-key celebration, as requested by the birthday boy, with dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse, then back to his parent's house for presents and an ice cream cake.

Molly couldn't wait to help Daddy open his presents.

The big gift of the night was this new Weber grill. Our current grill has been on the outs for way too long, so Chad's looking forward to setting this up and getting to grilling.

Molly enjoyed eating her first ice cream cake!