My 27th birthday party

Two weekends ago was my birthday, happens every year, and like usual I talked a bunch of my friends into heading up to my mom's house in Ojai for a weekend long celebration of all that is Cole.  Needless to say, it was freakin awesome.

Friday afternoon Steve and Megan showed up early so we headed to a bridge near my house for a quick urban boulder sesh.

yup, those are just rocks glued to the wall 

sweet top out

not much to say about this one

what a gangster

After partying pretty hard Friday night we woke up, ate some breakfast and headed to Wheeler Gorge to do some climbing.  It was a perfect day. 

Jill on her first time climbing made it to the top of a 5.9, nice work!

Mike and matt on a really cool route at Wheeler Gorge that I'd never been on, actually way steeper than it looks like here. We all speculated it was 10b...at home the guidebook called it 11a.  

back at the house we did some slack-lining and got ready for a BBQ put on by my mom and Uncle J.  

chillin on the deck

steph made some delicious b-day cupcakes

After we all loaded up on some fabulous burgers cooked by my uncle it was time to get down to business.  Beer pong tournament!  Long and utterly hilarious story short, Chris and I dominated all night long.  

chris looking very serious

shitty gif i made, i should have made it go slower but im too lazy to go back and change

mike teeing off

Sunday we headed out to Lake Casitas to play disc golf.  The course there is really cool and has been referred to as the Pebble Beach of disc golf, ok I referred it to that, but still, it's true.  It was a really good game.  Mike and Elijah kept it competitive all the way till the end and Matt kept it interesting by randomly throwing discs at everyones' heads.  Elijah, Mike and I were pretty much tied all the way to the 16th, but then I started playing right handed and easily won.  

matt was inebriated and throwing discs at everyone

5th tee box, see what i mean about Pebble Beach?

that was probably the worst day of Clyde's life, frisbees flying everywhere and he couldn't chase after them

All in all it was easily the best birthday of my life.  Thank you so much for everyone coming out, it wouldn't have been the same without you.  And for those of you who weren't there...what the fuck man, I thought we were friends?

my baby!  thanks for making it such a great weekend, though every weekend is great because of you

uncle j, you are the best, always have been, always will.  those burgers were awesome, everyone thought they were amazing and they provided just the base we needed for an all night beer pong tourney!

my momma!  I love you so much, thanks for letting me crash your house every couple of months with a large group of friends! I don't think there's a better mom in the world

In case you were wondering, though I doubt you were, in fact, I'm impressed you're still reading this, all these photos were taken with my new camera, a Canon T2i.  It was a birthday present from my mom and I absolutely love it.  Obviously, some of these pics have been photoshopped.