Tucanos Birthday Dinner

Since we did Bradley's birthday party so early in the month, we wanted to make sure he felt special on his actual birthday. We decided to take him to dinner some place he chose.

So my son chose the place with the pineapple on the stick (translation Tucanos Brazillian Grill). Bradley loves this place. They bring different types of meat to your table (and grilled pineapple). Then they also have a salad and entree bar. Bradley also loves there lobster bisque soup, and shrimp cocktail. Yep not your average 8 year old. Want to know what else is not average. Richard and him were eating chicken hearts (yuck), but Bradley is very proud of this.

We asked our waitress to sing Happy Birthday to Bradley. He was so surprised. They came out with drums and tambourines and sang in Portuguese. Bradley got to dance and shake the tambourines with them. They also gave both the kids a hot fudge sundae. It was a nice night.

Bradley's Birthday Party

Bradley had his party at Classic Fun Center. There was skating, bouncing, blasting and climbing. The kids did much better on scooters than they did on skates. Still we let Bradley and Olivia try skates. It was pretty funny. Bradley fell and almost took me down with him, even though I wasn't wearing skates. Olivia just let Richard push her around.





I believe this was the only time we had all the kids together . They were all off having fun and doing their own thing. Most of them didn't even eat the cake and ice cream because they wanted to play.

HMMM?? Did Bradley get what he wished for????

Yeah, he is pretty spoiled.

School Pictures

Bradley's 2nd grade picture! Say CHEESE!

Wow time has flown by. In just a few short weeks Bradley will be 8. He already wants a cell phone, a laptop and he is already counting down the years until he can drive. Time is sure changing, I am pretty sure at 8 I was still playing with Barbie, and driving was far out of my mind. And cell phones???? Nope it was probably a Walkman on my wish list. I didn't even get a CD player until I was 13. Wow that makes me sound old!

But I do love technology, when it benefits me. Say school pictures, now instead of ordering too many or not enough pictures, I just buy a CD that gives me full copyrights and I can order what I want. It is much cheaper too! Did I mention safer? I didn't do this for Bradley's kindergarten pictures and half of them came home bent. Lesson learned!

For right now Bradley has to take it slow. NO cell phones! NO laptops! And yes 8 more years until he can drive, if he is lucky :)

Halloween Cruise

We took a drive down to Provo the river for a Halloween boat cruise. The kids were very excited to ride the boat, hear scary ghost stories and see all the jack-o-lanterns. CLAS Halloween Cruise is centered around little kids, so we knew there would be no gore and nothing too scary, just some family fun.

The boat ride and the jack-o-lanterns were really fun, the scary story bored everyone on board, even the littlest kids. Bradley and Olivia thought the pirate attack was a little lame, until they gave out candy. Then it was Olivia's favorite part.

By far the best part of the night was the rock wall that the kids and Richard climbed. Ever since Bradley and Olivia saw it while we were waiting for our boat, that is all they wanted to do. Bradley said he didn't even want to go on the boat, he just wanted to climb!

Olivia all geared up. I didn't think they would have gear small enough to fit her.

Of course Richard made it to the top, what a guy?!?

Olivia, my little daredevil monkey made it about 3/4 the way up after several attempts of going up a little and coming back down. Each time she said she was scared when she was at the top, then when she came down she would go right back up and go higher than before. She probably would have made it all the way up if we had more time.

Bradley made it about 1/2 way up the wall. Bradley was struggling a little with coordinating moving his feet before out stretching his hands the further he got up the wall when the spacing of the pegs got further and further a part.

Now both kids want a rock wall at the house, but I don't think so!

Happy October!