Happy 8th Birthday, Brigham!

Brigham is such a meat lover.  So much so that we went to Beyond Glaze the other day to get some donuts for Family Home Evening and guess what he got?  How does a Bacon Maple donut sound?  That just seems disgusting but not to Brigham.  I can't believe they even sell something like that, but they do and apparently it is their best seller.  So for his birthday, David took Brigham to Tucanos.  They have all you can eat meat along with a salad bar but do you think he even went to the salad bar?  Nope!  I asked David if he went and his reply was, "Why?"  Wow, I seriously can not imagine getting sickening full on meat alone.  

Oh, and Brigham's favorite meat to try was a chicken heart.  Wow.

 Tonight was Brigham's birthday party. We started with water baseball and the kids liked it so much that I really wish I would have gotten more water balloons for it.

 Jasia Liftee came out from Oklahoma to spend a week at BYU but before we take her up there tomorrow we got to spend some time with her at the party tonight.  Ronald and I know her from growing up in the Grove branch and she has such a good teasing spirit so we immediately plotted to act like Ronald was going to pitch to her a water balloon but really.....

 .....he just pelted her!

 Brigham got a lot of great presents but Mario Kart from Nanny and Poppy got the biggest reaction.  Levi and Brigham have been saving up this summer for this game.  They knew it would take all summer (and that was for a used one) so you can imagine the wonderful surprise that he got it for his birthday instead.

 He was not forgotten by his family in Oklahoma (they boys never are, though :) and he was spoiled by family here.  He got this Lego kit from Stephen and Holly and pretty much gave it to Levi.  Levi LOVES Legos!  I wish Brigham would have been more tactful about it when opening up his presents and announcing that Levi was the one who loved Legos but I also loved that he gladly gave the gift to Levi.

The hamburger cake was a huge hit.  Fresh Market did such a good job on it.  They even made "fries" with it that the kids dipped in "ketchup" (frosting).

 Before everyone left, a few of the girls left Brigham some birthday messages.

Last Family Home Evening we focused the lesson on baptism and the importance of names.  All of our names have special meanings behind them and it was fun to go over those things we know about those who went before us and how important that we live up to our names.  Most importantly, Brigham will be taking on the name of Christ soon and we wanted him to know just how important that really is.  It brought such a neat feeling in our house.  I really hope he remembers this birthday of his.