No longer in his mid 20s

Earlier this month Eben turned 27 and since we weren't able to celebrate on his actual birthday (he had a wedding to attend), we celebrated a week later.

What he really wanted was to spend the day with his family and friends at his parents' house in Orange playing wiffleball. Somehow he ended up on both winning teams while I unfortunately did not get to celebrate a win after either game. Julian had a complete blast playing with all the big kids. Baseball is his latest obsession and once he got over the fact that wiffleball is not played with a baseball he got into it. He even struck Henry out while pitching; a very difficult task in wiffleball (Henry was not quite as impressed as the rest of us).

In addition to the 2 intense games of wiffleball some of the boys played soccer which turned into who can peg someone the hardest with the soccer ball.

We tossed around the frisbee as well. It was a great day of backyard games! The weather cooperated too with only very slight sprinkles here and there.

It wouldn't be a birthday without a cake! Apparently Candy used to make Eben a train cake each year, and this year was no different with elaborate decorating done by Heather and Melissa. There was also a strawberry rhubarb pie so that everyone had lots of yummy desserts.


There were guests from throughout Eben's life; high school, college, childhood, and family friends. He has lots of friends who really care about him, so it was really nice to have such a large group of them together at once to celebrate his birthday. I unfortunately didn't get a picture of the whole group but it was close to 30 I think. He was really happy that everyone was able to come celebrate with him!

Happy Birthday Eben!