Luke turns 7! - Part 1

Of course like any other 7 year old Luke has been counting down the days until his Birthday! He was so excited!
I woke him up singing "Happy Birthday" to him, which put a huge smile on his face! I told him to get up because there was a present downstairs for him. He ran down to see a new bike.

He wanted to open his other gifts too (G doesnt mind not getting to see them open their presents, he thinks it is mean to make them wait all day until he gets home).

We had gotten him a video game he wanted (NHL 2012) and a Neff t-shirt (a popular brand right now). We don't give much for birthdays our gift to our kids is their parties.
We went and picked up donuts for him to bring to school to share with his class.
After school he was excited to go out and ride his new bike!

Of course Blake had to go out and use his lawn mower

We went to dinner at Johnny Rockets, it was his choice, he was so excited to have them sing to him, but we got a bum deal waitress who we told 3 times it was his birthday, and she still managed to forget. It was so sad to see his little face after I went up and talked to her, her response was "I realize it is a big bummer we didn't sing, but I took 20% off your bill" my response to that was "he is 7 and doesn't understand 20%".
 That night was back to school night at the boys school, so G and I had to get out of there to get to the school on time. Brittney brought the boys home and got them all ready for bed so when we got home we could have birthday cake (I made him a cake of his choice) and sing. At that point he had forgotten all about not being sung to at Johnny Rockets.

He was so happy!! And even happier that his Birthday didn't end that day. He still had an entire weekend to celebrate!

Saturday Sept 17, 2011
We celebrated again at Wild Kingdom! Luke loves his parties there and so do we, no fuss, we just bring a cake and they do everything! The kids can run, jump, yell, flip etc. Its fun for all ages! He gets to invite as many kids as he wants so everyone is happy!
This year they started something new by having the Birthday child dress up like a King! He was embarrassed but sure did look cute, he only had to wear down the hall to the first bounce room.

Brittney & Brianna (BFF's)

 Our adorable niece Karlynne