8 is great

Jack, I am amazed at how quickly the years have added up and that you are 8, that snuck up on me! I swear Madison just turned 8 but if I think about it she is closer to 10 than 8. Time really does just go by so fast. It almost seems like yesterday you came into our family.

And then before I knew it you were having your 

1st birthday
baseball cake

And then your 2nd
Thomas the train cake

3rd

Race car

 And it's even crazier to think that we moved to Utah and you celebrated your 4th birthday when we were living at Grammies.  the Dump Truck Cake.

  And then we had our Luigi cake for # 5.

 

6th birthday 

alien cake

 And then 7 we had a  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles party

For 8 this year, I have to apologize we ate so much cake in March that I didn't even think about Jack's cake until the day before his party. I thought a mustache party would be awesome, Jack thought a mine craft party would be even cooler. I know nothing about mine-craft except that you can only play it on the Xbox and we don't have an Xbox--guess what Jack asked for his birthday. Ya not gonna happen!

Any how somehow I stumbled upon this cake! We both decided it was perfect for his 8th birthday. 

We celebrated his birthday all week really but for sure with dinner on Sunday when we could have local family over for dinner and icecream and cake. I told Jack he was welcome to open the presents mom and dad gave him but that would mean he wouldn't have any presents to open on his real birthday. He opted to open one!

 He was pretty excited about it. Pokemon Cards. 

 And then a card from Grandma & Grandpa Loveridge

 And a basketball or two or three! I suggested to Stephanie that he could use a new basketball for our new hoop and because his had a hole in it. Well I sent the same text to Julie, she didn't know what size ball to get so she bought 2 also. So he opened 3 balls!

 And then he opened a card full of cash! His face is priceless. 

 After presents we sang and ate cake. Lilly sang so cute to Jack. Her birthday wasn't that long ago and she was excited to have someone else get to celebrate.

 Jack is the best big brother he didn't mind that his little sister helped him blow out his candles.

 And then on his real birthday we had to have something yummy to eat. Jack also requested to have chicken and rice for dinner. What?? This kid doesn't even like rice. I was going to buy a pizza on the way to baseball games but decided I should make him what he asked for for dinner.  Although, it is hard to be hungry to eat dinner at 4:30, so really I should have just bought a pizza! Oh well, his cake was gone so I made a cookie bar from Our Best Bites and then we served it with ice cream on top. Wow the cookie bars were rich!

Jack woke up and went to school on his big 8th birthday. How boring! He wanted school lunch-he said the spaghetti is really good! I offered to bring him lunch but he wanted that. He did ask several times when "we" were going to buy his school class treat. I bought them and snuck over to school only to have just missed his class heading to lunch. He had a sub that day--but said everyone sang to him all day long!

After school and homework, ate dinner, and then we rushed to Jack's game. And then during Jack's game, I rushed to Madison's game. Double Header that night!

Jack finally got to open his presents! And then it was bed time!