Wow! I can’t believe my youngest turned 8 yrs old today. He is the sweetest 8 yr old I know. He gets to celebrate all week because he had football tonight so we couldn’t do our traditional family dinner.

Here are his festivities:

• Waffles for dinner tonight with his brothers, Bryan and me.
• Longhorn steakhouse tomorrow night  with family
• Sunday afternoon skating party with family and friends

It gets confusing as when to give him his gifts. Today he opened a cool hoodie from Papa and Nana, Bryan’s parents.  He opened his gift from my parents while on the phone with my Mom. It was so cool to hear his excitement while she was listening. It was a Wii game he wanted.

When do you give your kids their birthday gifts?

Tonight we celebrated Don’s birthday. He is a wonderful guy married to my sister in law Abbye. He is a huge football fan and played for Cornell.

Noah, Adam, Don and Reagan (Don and Abbye’s son)  played football in our ginormous backyard. It was hilarious. Noah sent Adam inside to get a helmet and shoulder pads that are Noah’s. Adam put on all the gear and went head to head with his brother.  Anytime Adam would get the ball he would pass it to Don because he didn’t want to get tackled. This strategy didn’t work too well for the backyard game. There was no referee to call penalties, so it  was every man and child for himself.

These boys are tired and dirty.