At the end of March, Riley turned 8 years old. I can't believe my kids are growing up so fast!! He got to have a party with friends. We went to the park and the kids had an Easter Egg hunt, and played a little golf (it was a little hard to hit the ball with long grass), and some baseball. They ate pizza and had cupcakes. Riley seemed to have a great time. I forgot to bring my camera so I didn't have it until the end when Stefan brought it to me.
We had to light the cupcake in the box because the wind was so strong and kept blowing the candles out. I was just hoping that the flames weren't going to catch the whole box on fire.
The boys all seemed to have a good time!
The next day, on his birthday, we had to run some errands. We wanted to get Riley a Cub Scout shirt for his birthday so we had to go up to north Mesa to the Scout Shop to get what he needed. We tried to make it seem like this was a fun trip for him, even though we realized that why we were way up in that part of Mesa that there were several stores that we needed to go to. Luckily there was the Bass Pro Shop right there so Stefan took the kids in there so they could see the fish and other neat things in there. Riley also got to practice shooting a gun - a fake one at their shooting range. He thought that was a lot of fun. Then we went to Chik-fil-a for lunch. We chose a place to eat that had a play area for the kids so Riley would think this trip was all for him. :)
That evening we had foil dinners and roasted marshmallows. I put 8 candles in a marshmallow for him to blow out.
We are so grateful to have Riley in our family. He brings a lot of joy to us, and I love his smile and laugh. He is a good worker too!
*I wanted to post a baby picture on here, but I don't have one on my computer since I didn't have a digital camera when he was a baby, and we don't have a scanner.
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