Ryan's Birthday Part 2 - The Food

To continue Ryan's birthday, we did the Joe tour, sort of . . . we did Liberty for breakfast and then Joe's Farmgrill for dinner.  Ryan opted to have breakfast at home.  So, we went off to lunch and enjoyed ourselves at one of our most favorite places - Liberty Market.

Ryan waiting for lunch at Liberty - playing on
his new iPod Touch

Ryan & Doug

Mmmmm Pizza!

Doug & I split wonderful salad. I wish I could remember
the name something with Thai and chicken.  It was yummy!

They were offering a Tagalong cupcakes - based on the girl
scout cookies.  It really did taste just like the cookie too.

On the way home, Ryan decided he was ready to cut
his hair.

Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Kelly joined us for dinner
at Joe's Farmgrill.

Ryan enjoying his dark chocolate shake.

Ryan's Birthday Part 1 - The Presents

About a week ago, Ryan turned 12.  Since his birthday is during spring break, Doug and I both had the day off and were able to make a fun day of celebrating.  Here is how we began the day.  After breakfast, we let Ryan open the presents from us.

Star Wars wrapping paper



The gifts

Opening up his Lego Ninjago dojo set

An iPod touch!  He opened the new case for it
first and couldn't figure out why we gave him
an iPod touch when he had an older model.
Then he could hardly wait to open the next
gift.

Checking out all the apps.

It's Been A Strange One for Weather

It has been a strange year for weather at our house.  First we got hit with that crazy hail storm - and then it was the strongest winds.  All night one evening you could hear the wind howling and blowing everything all over the place.  And, when we got up the next morning, we found that at least half of the leaves in our two trees by the pool had all been blown off the trees and all over the yard.  It was a quite a sight - and of course a huge cleanup job for the future.  Crazy wind I'm telling you.

Our entryway into the pool  Look at all those
leaves all over the ground.  You can hardly
see the grass.

I think our pool had more leaves in it than water.

His Long Wait is Finally Over

Ryan

Finally, after a year of asking for it, Ryan is playing tackle football.  He had his fourth practice last night and seems to really be enjoying it.  It's tough work - and lots to learn - like the right way to tackle and guard.  He is not the smallest player on his team - and definitely not the largest either.  It's fun watching the practices.  And he really is listening to the coaches when they pull him aside with some pointers.  He just needs to find his inner aggressive Ryan!

This picture was taken the day we got all his equipment.  It took me a couple days to get used to seeing a football helmet and shoulder pads laying around the house.  We got home and he couldn't wait to put everything on all at once.  Oh, and he even cut his hair - pics to come of that later on.  We would push his hair back to put on his helmet (those things are a very tight fit) and next thing you know he's running around in practice with a bunch of hair sticking out of the front of his helmet.  The only downside to no more long hair - it's not as easy to pick him out of the crowd at practice.

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Last year Ryan celebrated his 11th birthday.