Will's Birthday

Will wanted bacon AND sausage and waffles for breakfast.  We don't eat bacon and sausage much, so they were all very excited.  

Will's birthday fell on Pack Meeting for the month, so he got to go to pack meeting on his birthday and be awarded his bobcat.  He was just a little excited :)

You got a basketball hoop for your birthday.  You even helped dig the hole without knowing what it was for.  In fact, I had lots of little helpers.

They asked Mom's to come up and paint their faces and to get the pin.  I went up there, and Willie, ever so politely said, "Actually, I think Dad helped most with this pin."  So true.  And so funny.  So I went and sat down so Reed could do the honors of getting the pin and painting Will's face.  It was a fun night.

We also took Will out, just Reed and I, to a restaurant for his birthday.  He chose Olive Garden.  It was a lot of fun being able to go out to eat with just Will.  He's growing up too fast.  He is a pretty sweet and sensitive kid most the time.  He likes just about everything. He is playing soccer and doing wrestling right now, as well as piano and scouts.  It keeps us plenty busy.  He is always thinking of others and how he can help.  Sometimes he is a stinker around the house and he is learning the fun in teasing, but for the most part, he's a pretty darn good kid.

He got baptized the Saturday after his birthday, along with two cute girls from the ward, Layla and Polly.  He got some scriptures for his birthday.  He wanted the large print ones, so that's what he got.  I'm a little jealous of the big ones.  He got some marking pens and a scripture mastery card.  During sacrament meeting now he likes to mark the scripture mastery.  Even for one of his late nights he wanted to mark his scriptures, so we went through some of them and marked and talked about them.  It was a fun night.

We love our Willie and are so proud of the decisions he is making and the person he is becoming.