June 2, 2008

• Jared turns the Big 10!

  First double digit birthday means double the fun! We had a marvelous day celebrating Jared's 10th birthday Saturday. Believe it or not the cake I made (with some help from Eric when I got a little wimpy with the cutting out the shape part) came out wonderful. Not that I would make my former home ec teacher proud, but hey it was a winner with Jared and that's what counts! I had so many pics to choose from, but as it was it took me several hours to get these done. Enjoy!

  

  Jared picked Lasagna for his birthday meal. Notice he recently just lost two teeth?

  

  Siblings and Best Friends!

  

  The Bowling Lane Cake! I let Jared put the final bowling ball on that was going down the lane. Actually it was his idea! If you look back at the pictures I showed you of what I was planning on doing they didn't put this ball going down the lane. As you see I ended up going with the fruit strips rather than the twizzlers. I tried with the twizzlers but they were too annoying and twisty to work with.

  

  Jared does a practice run on whether he can blow the candles from the beginning of the lane. He had the most fun with this cake!!

  

  Getting ready to make his strike on his birthday candles (aka pins). Can he do it?!

  

  STRIKE!!! He got all ten out in one blow on the first try!!! Even he couldn't believe it. (I'll have to tell his allergist/asthma doc this one! They always have him blow out candles on a computer screen to test his lung function at the time of visit) I have this moment on the other video camera that Eric was operating while I was taking pics. You will have to take my word for it.

  I did ask him do it again for me a couple more times to see if I could get a quick video on the point and shoot for you all, but he wasn't able to get a strike again. Here's the two I captured that way... (I couldn't decide which one I liked better)

  
  

  

  After the candles were blown out Jared played with the gumball (I mean bowling ball) and knocked the candles down for a strike! He thanked me over and over for making him a "special cake." I'm so glad he like it!

  

  Look at all these cards he got!! My kids all love their cards from Grandparents. In this picture he is looking at three photos that Grammy Dena gave him from his piano recital. He ran and got his wallet immediately to hide his money away that was found in some of the cards.

  

  The grand moment when he opened up his favorite gift from Mama and Papa. I thought he was going jump right out his skin! Papa actually got this gift on one of his ministry trips as there was only one left in practically our entire state! We called every Toys R Us there was. It was just fortunate the only Toys R Us that had ONE left was in the very city that Eric had to travel too. We had them hold it for us. Hooray for Papa on this one!!

  

  If only you could hear his reaction at this point!! Unfortunately, all video was taken on my new HD camera and I don't have the software yet to download videos for you.

   

  Here it is! The Lego Technic Cherry Picker and Dump Truck MOTORIZED! This kid flipped when he opened this thing!! Look at that smile!

  

  He was beaming for a LOOONG time! He even came running across the room right after this shot and jumped onto my lap giving me a big hug. I will have to get you a pic of the finished project. He did NOTHING (with the exception of minor necessities like eating meals) all day on Sunday but put this thing together. I have never seen my son so attentive to one thing before. I guess I know what to look for next Christmas as there are more in this series.

  

  Off to candlepin bowling! The kids loved that everything was computerized. Especially the cartoons on the screen above your head to show what you got after hitting the pins. It was great to have the bumpers automatically go up when the computer knew it was a child's turn and then go down for Eric and I. Things certainly have come a long way since I was a child!

  

  The birthday boy working hard to beat us all! He did on the first game, but Mama gave him good competition on the second game. Jared had a blast trying to beat me! He liked that he won one and I won one.

  

  Phoebe always ended up with her hands in the air after throwing her ball at about 1.57 mph. Yup, a long wait to get that thing down to end of the lane! She got better by the end of the night though to really give it a good heave forward. See the yellow ball there? That was the most loved ball of the night with my kids. Of course, there only had to be ONE so who ever was up always wanted to wait until the ball came back. Silly kids!

  

  Caleb giving his all to get that ball rolling!

  

  Then there is Chloe... the oh so dainty one who I believe won the award for the slowest ball. Here, after a bit of coaching, she decides she is just going to throw that thing! lol

  

  My favorite pic of the whole day! Btw, if you look close you can see we were in lane 10 for Jared's 10th birthday.

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