Ryan's Birthday

Monday we celebrated Ryan's birthday. A tradition in our family is for the birthday person to chose a restaurant to eat at. Ryan's choice was Benihanas. It is a Japanese restaurant were they cook the food right at your table. The restaurant was a good experience for my boys. I do have a couple of extremely picky eaters. I warned them ahead of time that no matter what they had to try the food. If their dad asked them if they liked it they had to say, Yes. I didn't want Ryan to feel bad about his choice of restaurant.





I must say that I was very proud of my boys! We all enjoyed watching the chef cook our food right at our table. He was very talented. He would throw the ingredients up into the air and he would juggle different utensils, it was entertaining to watch him. The boys especially loved eating with chop sticks. The boys all did extremely well in trying the new food. They must of liked it because two of the boys whose birthday's are next month are wanting to go back.


The boys and I SPOILED Ryan with our presents this year. We were so excited to see his reaction that we couldn't wait until we got home, so Ryan opened his presents at Benihanas.


Ryan is such an INCREDIBLE husband and father. The boys and I are richly BLESSED to have him in our lives.


Ryan's sister sent him a newspaper article about his birth. Click on the image to read.

Movin' On Up

Last Saturday was our yearly Blue & Gold Banquet. Matthew earned his Bear Award, along with one gold arrow and two silver arrows. He will move on up to Webelos next month. He is very EXCITED!