It’s Great to Be 8!

Jason had the big birthday last week!  He turned 8 years old!  He has been looking forward to this day all year!  I really can’t believe it is here already and we will have another child baptized in the house.  Jason is such a sweet boy.  He really desires to Choose the Right.  He loves to play on the Wii, build legos and really likes the Star Wars Legos right now.  He loves to be active outside riding his electric scooter or roller blading.  He has a lot of friends that he is constantly playing with in the neighborhood.  He loves sports and can be very intense and competitive.  He also gets embarrassed very easily and does not like attention drawn to him.  He is excelling in his Chinese program.  He is a good student and loves to participate in class.  His favorite thing to do at recess is the monkey bars, skipping as far as he can reach.  He is the first one in the morning to get his room picked up and chores done.  I am so grateful for this boy in our home! 

For his birthday he got $25 from Grandma and Grandpa McGary, A BYU football and Pocket knife with his name on it from Grandma and Grandpa Lee, a scout uniform, Star Wars Legos, Roller Blades and the new 2013 edition of the scriptures with a scripture case and marking pencils from Mom and Dad.  He was so excited to be the only one in the family with the newest scriptures!  He had a grin on his face the whole time at church holding those.  He was pretty excited!

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For his family birthday party this year we went to Classic Fun Center.  The kids brought their roller blades and scooters.  The kids also played on the bounce houses and games there also.  It was a fun 2 hours!  Grandma and Grandpa Lee were with us and Andrea came with Addysin, Caden and Jocelyn. 

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We came back to our house for dinner and cake and ice cream.  Jason chose a chocolate cake and we invited our new neighbors over the, Boyers, to help us eat all the cake and ice cream!

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