Ryan's Birthday

Wow! What a birthday Ryan had this year. Since his birthday fell on Martin Luther King Day there was no school and mom and dad both got to be home with him. He had a marathon birthday this week, not kidding! It started on Friday before his birthday with treats and a birthday celebration at school. Saturday he played in his basketball game and then Mike got tickets to the University of Utah Basketball game. We let Ryan invite a friend and Mike took them to the game. Not only did they get to see the basketball game, but they got to go to an autograph session with the Football team who just won the Sugar Bowl. Ryan got his jersey signed by Coach Whittingham. Sunday, Ryan was spotlighted on the Baptism poster at church which was fun for him. Monday was his actual birthday. He had been asking to go eat at "The Mayan", a mexican restaurant (don't recommend this restaurant for good food), but the main reason he wanted to go there was because they have divers that put on diving shows why you are eating. They climb on a rock wall and put on a themed diving show kind of like they are in the jungle. The food wasn't very good, even Ryan commented that his chicken taco didn't taste very good. But the boys had fun watching the diving and going down close where they could get splashed. We forgot to take our camera, bummer! Tuesday was Ryan's first pack meeting for cub scouts, he was so excited. He had been stressing about not having a scout uniform yet. So we hurried out and got his uniform ready to go. Has anyone bought a cub scout uniform lately? Wow, I couldn't believe I spent $60 just on the basic uniform.

Wednesday and Thursday must have been a let down after all of the birthday events, but I kept busy getting ready for Ryan's birthday party and baptism. Friday was short day at school. So in the afternoon we had Ryan's birthday party. Imagine 17-7 and 8 year olds, running around my small house. It was an adventure. I was thankful I had opted for a 1 1/2 hour party instead of 2 hours. Enjoy some pictures from the party. I'll post specifically about his baptism in a separate post.

Ryan has always loved pinatas. We had to carefully decide the order of hitting the pinata in order to allow everyone to have a turn.

Here Ryan is telling everyone how this present opening is going to go down.

Sitting around enjoying some cake and ice cream.

Our local dollar store went out of business. Tanner and I went shopping to see if we could find anything that would be good for Ryan's party. Since everything was 50% off of a $1.00 I let Tanner pick something for him. Of all the things he could pick, he choose a bag of party those party favors that you blow and the paper goes in and out. He and Ryan kept themselves entertained.