Eight is Great!

Happy Birthday Breakfast

After the belt test

So it was a very busy birthday weekend in the Nobles household.  Friday evening several of the neighborhood kiddos came over to bounce on the trampoline after school which ended in an improptu pizza night with their family.  The kids bounced and the adults played the giant Jenga game that Heath and I (and Home Depot) made last weekend.  If you don't know what giant Jenga is, just picture regular Jenga, only with 2x4s sawed to about 12 inches long.  It's a lot of fun, and makes a terrific party game. 

Saturday was the belt test for Taekwondo, about 25 kids participated.  Jackson did an outstanding job and earned his yellow belt.  You can see that several of his good friends have been doing this for a while!  He really loves Taekwondo and it's been great not only physically, but mentally too.  Lot's of good discipline reinforced! 

Sunday morning Jackson woke up to a floor filled with blown up balloons, a Happy Birthday Banner across the doorway, and streamers everywhere.  He had his requested cinnamon roll breakfast and proceeded to open his gifts.  Grant was very proud of the gift he gave Jack, the newest "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" book.  Jackson loves those books.  Sunday night we went out to dinner at Jackson's request to Collina's.  He devoured an enormous plate of ravioli and have a loaf of bread before we went to Marble Slab for his favorite "Vanilla Ice Cream with Oreos and Gummy Bears."  Yes, that's right...gummy bears!  They are disgustingly hard in ice cream, but he loves them.  Anyway, he had a great weekend, and of course the fun doesn't stop there.  Next weekend is the family "combined" party for all the kids born Dec-February and then the weekend after that is his laser-tag party with several friends from school.  Then two weeks later is Grant's birthday.  Thankfully, the festivities end after February 21st!