Cole turns 10!

Sunday was Cole's birthday. Saturday night he got to pick what he wanted to go do as a family. He chose Bowling. Okay, I'm a good sport, so I participated, but understand one thing, I am NOT a bowler. Never have been and probably never will be. We had a lot of fun though! Final scores, Nick-107, Me-88, Cole-86 and Jacob-77, and that was with the bumpers up. Yes, you read that right. My 10 year old son only scored 2 points less than me. I'm not a bowler, remember. After bowling we headed to Red Robin for dinner. Again, Cole's choice. He picked that place cause they go all out on the singing when it's your birthday. So, when it was time to sing to him, they sang LOUD! Wow, not kidding! Cole gets embarrassed quite easily and his face turned about 5 shades of red. He loved it though and we had such a good time.

Here are the three of them in their stylin' bowling shoes. Don't you love those shoes? :)

They would get down on their knees to watch the ball go down the lane. I guess they had a better view of it that way. :)

Jacob was a bit excited cause he got a spare. :)

Birthday boy!

Here is Nick and Cole at Red Robin. Okay, I think I know who Jacob takes after when he makes those funny faces. ;)

Here is Jacob and I at Red Robin. I think I posed with the wrong kid, haha.

Here is the birthday kid enjoying his ice cream that they gave him when they sang Happy Birthday.

After dinner we went to the Temple to see the Christmas lights. Every year they outdo themselves by adding more lights. It's awesome to see! We've been trying to go for a couple of weeks, but we had rain and then Jacob was sick so finally we had a chance after Christmas to go. We love the Nativity displays from all over the world that they have there inside the visitors center. I did get pictures, but they don't show the true beauty of it at all.

Here are the boys at the Temple in front of the Christmas tree outside the visitors center. It was COLD!

Here is Jacob in front of the big nativity display outside. It's hard to tell what it is, but it really is beautiful!

Then here is Jacob making another goofy face in front of the Joseph and Mary on the donkey.

Here are the 3 boys in front of the 3 wise men crossing on the front lawn.

On Sunday they sang to him in Primary, and again, the red face showed up. I made his favorite meal for dinner and we opened presents. He is really into Legos right now, so he got some Legos for his birthday and some rollerblades. Now him and Jacob can go rollerblading together. On Monday his grandma took him shopping for his birthday to let him pick out exactly what he wanted. They went, yep you guessed it, to the Lego Store in the Chandler mall where he picked out another Star Wars Lego set. I swear that kid is starting up a collection of Star Wars Legos. He has a ton! He's fast at putting them together too.

Here he is right after waking up on Sunday. He still looks a bit tired.

Here is Cole in all his glory opening up presents. He made sure to read the cards before opening any presents. :)

He was excited to get rollerblades, especially since Jacob got some for Christmas. In the picture on the right I caught him making a weird face, but really he was excited that he got Star Wars Legos. :)

He got some Indiana Jones Legos too and apparently they were ones that he really wanted, so he stood up and started doing a little dance from excitement, haha. I wish I would have recorded it. He was hilarious! :)

We took family pictures on Sunday right after church cause I wanted a good picture of us dressed up since Jacob was sick the Sunday before. I don't like my legs in the picture at all. They look weird. These were taken using the self timer on the camera, so I had no way of knowing how they looked before snapping the picture. In the 2nd picture Jacob was mad and so he is crying, but trying to smile at the same time. They didn't turn out as good as I'd hoped. We need someone to take some good family pictures of us!

Here are the two boys. Jacob was still mad so this is the best smile I could get out of him. :)

New Years Eve is his friend party. We are having a birthday/New Years Eve slumber party. He has invited 3 close friends. That is all I can handle, haha. It will be his first slumber party and he is VERY excited about it. I imagine a lot of Wii playing will be going on and other fun boy activities. I will post more about it when it's over.