It's Great to be Eight!

This is Luke's birthday week. He is turning 8 - and 8 is a big deal because he gets baptised! And he also starts cubscouts. Very exciting. We kicked off the celebrations by inviting him to come with us and grandma to the Cardinals preseason game. On the way there, he begged grandma to give him his b-day present early and was excited to find that she got him a Koby Bryant jersey - something he's been wanting since the Suns playoffs! So he wore his LA lakers jersey to an Arizona Cardinals game, and got a few comments from strangers, but it was a cute memory. He's so sweet.





Friday night daddy and I took him to dinner at Benihana's - the place where they cook in front of you - as he puts it. He loves steak and chicken and all those good veggies - so he was a happy boy! Delicious!



Yesterday we gave him breakfast in bed even though it wasn't his actually birthday - we were pretending it was. He had me set my alarm for 6:45 and said he'd stay in bed pretending to be asleep until 7am. We thought that was nice of him, considering it was a Saturday. But he loved it.
And then daddy took he and his two best buddies Cooper and Devin to the rec center to climb the rock wall, play basketball, run the track and play wall ball. They came home sweaty and worn out as eight year olds should be for donuts and presents. It was a great birthday party on all fronts.






This Saturday is the final big event of his week - his baptism. Nana and Poppi are coming in to town and we are all looking forward to it. Luke is such a sweet, handsome, good boy. We love him!!