The big 8!

Nathan turned 8 a couple weeks ago.  Eight is a big birthday, because that's when you're old enough to be baptized in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (more on the baptism later).  The morning of his birthday was a little disappointing, besides the bacon, eggs, and pancakes for breakfast.  Alex and Weston were still out of town on Nathan's birthday, so we didn't do all the presents right away.  He was pretty disappointed to see "only 3 presents" on the table in the morning.  I told him more were coming later.  It was even more disappointing when 2 of them were clothes.  He opened up the football later with Alex watching via Skype.  He was excited to use a gift card to pick out a lego set.  We had McDonald's for dinner, but his favorite part of the day was getting to watch the National Championship football game.  The only problem was he was rooting for LSU.  Not a great game for them.  (Nathan has always really liked LSU.  Originally I think he really liked their mascot, the tiger, but then jumped on the band wagon when he realized they were a really good team.  Nathan loves to watch college sports.  He begs to get on-line and watch games or check scores.) 

Alex brought home a big lego set that Nathan loves.  (We have legos everywhere now!)

Here's a picture of Nathan's party invite from the computer screen (can't figure out how to make a jpg out of the word document and the color cartridge is printing blue for the green).

We had Nathan's friend party on Saturday morning the 14th.  He requested a football party, so we invited about 10 kids to play flag football at the park.  Alex and my dad organized the game (thankfully).  I made a football cake, which eventually came out (I ended up using a whole thing of chocolate frosting on the ball.  The sides kept crumbling off, so I kept adding more frosting "mortar" until it stuck.  It was a late night/early morning project.)   We had "half time snacks" - orange slices, gatorade, chips, and cake.  I made chocolate Rice Krispie footballs with white chocolate decorating for gift favors (these may be out there somewhere on-line, but as far as I know these were my own creation).  I don't know if everyone loved playing football, but Nathan had a great time!  We may have to get these boys together more often to play sports.  

Here's one short little clip - It's hard to see who's who, but Nathan is there at the end, pulling the flag.  He was pretty good at snatching the flags.