Zach is 8!

Zach's birthday was on Thursday. He turned 8 years old! Zach will be baptized for our church on January 8. In the morning before school he got to open one present. He chose the heavy one. It turned out to be his own set of scriptures for church. Our birthday traditions include no chores or homework and picking whatever you want for all of your meals. When I asked what he wanted in his lunch he said "I want milk with my food!" (Usually he just has a water bottle or a juice box.) It was nice that he was so easy to please. For dinner we had pizza.Then it was time for presents. He got a Webkinz that he named "Frazil." (Pronounced like Frazzle)

A while back he had told me that he wanted a wallet to keep his money in. I passed the information on to Grandma LeSueur and she came through. From the LeSueurs he got a new wallet with $8 in it!

Our only other gift for him was this box. He was very confused when he opened it and just found a bunch of papers...

...until we explained that the papers were tickets for our entire family to go to Sea World on Tuesday for his birthday. He was so excited. For about the last year Zach has been really into ocean creatures. He has said that he wants to be an oceanographer when he grows up, so we thought this would be the perfect gift for him.

Zach requested a chocolate cake covered with Kit Kat bars. A "Kit Kat Cake." This is what I came up with...

We love you Zach!