Kason is 8

Kason had a great birthday. It started out with me volunteering for the PTA to mark laps as the kids ran @ lunch recess. Kason loves this, and was completely excited that the day I was assigned happened to fall on his birthday. Then I brought treats to his class (doughnuts), and he got a card and notes from him classmates.

After school we took 8 friends to a trampoline arena called AntiGravity. They have wall to wall trampolines, as well as some other inflatable things. The kids had a blast jumping, and then we headed to a park for pizza and ice cream. Kason's birthday falls after the weekend of the time change, and his planning his parties, I always forget that it's suddenly going to get dark around 5:30. When he doesn't get out of school til 3:30, that doesn't leave us a lot of daylight. But after the kids ate pizza, they played and ran around until dark and we took them all home.

Lance, Ashton, Brock, Paige, Dad, Cami, Kason, Nathan, Taye, & Caileb

After dropping everybody off we came home and Kason opened his presents from us (a coat, some clothes, a book about shark anatomy, and a sparking scooter). Then we enjoyed some cake. He requested a lizard cake, but that just isn't in my cake repertoire. I'm not a cake decorater and never professed to be. It's just one of those things that comes with motherhood. Anyway, his 2nd request was a snake cake, which I thought I could maybe pull off. We all enjoyed it, especially Taylor who always manages to make an enormous cake mess!

We waited for many years to get this boy, and I can't believe he is now 8 years old. We love him so much and he is such a special, kind-hearted and enthusiastic boy. We are looking forward to his baptism in a few weeks.