Brent Food Fest

 There were tons of food tables set up outside and more in the cafeteria.  We found a place to sit and made our rounds sampling food.  It was fun and delicious-some of the tables had REALLY long lines!  We saw many of the children's friends-Scott and one of his friends sampled something from every table outside! 

 Then we went out to the track for games.  Scott was quickly scooped up and carried off to jail by an upper school student.  They use the games for fundraising for end of the school year activities.  Scott snuck out of jail once and then had fun spending his tickets getting older kids to jail some of his friends!

 Here is Ryan doing the Hammer King.  He also enjoyed bowling and fishing

 Here is Ashley on the blow up slide!  Having a blast

 Here is Ashley and a classmate!

 Here is Ashley fishing with a friend whose name is Georgia!  Her sister's name is Scarlett and yes I did ask their mom if she was a Gone With the Wind lover-one is a family name and the other they just liked!

 Ashley leaned over a little too far trying to catch one fish!

 She also got a butterfly painted on her hand!

 Crazy glasses!

 A friend who teaches upper school science taking a turn in the dunking booth!  His first grade son kept bringing his friends over to dunk his dad!

 all in their crazy glasses

 There is a talent show and fireworks to close out the evening but we decided to skip those, since we had all been up late the night before with Ryan's sleepover!

Ryan's birthday celebration

 Friday afternoon I picked up Ryan and 2 of his friends at school.  We came home, played some wii, and then met up with Greg for lasertag and dinner.

 Proud of his time in the laser maze!

 On the left:  Wyatt, Ryan, Daniel, and Scott

 A HUGE group of waiters/waitresses came out to sing for Ryan and though it is not captured in the pictures, he loved it!

 Then we came back home for cookie cake,

 Night swimming

 presents

 hero factory guys and pokemon cards

 Both friends spent the night-I think they all got a little sleep!

On Saturday, Daniel stayed with us until time to go to Food Fest at school.  He and Scott played chess, we had picnic lunch by the pool, and did some more swimming!

 Ryan is showing me his 9 jump!

 This is the twisting crazy 9 dive!

 Ryan got to open family gifts on Sunday afternoon!  Greg is laughing at my wrapping job and expressions of frustration that it is rare to find an actual roll of wrapping paper here.  Oh well,  he knew they were all Legos anyway!

 I love these pictures of Ryan because it is a great genuine authentic smile.  We tease him that sometimes his smile looks like he is about to be hit by a bus-more of a grimace than smile!

 How could he not be happy with this many new things to build

 and he didn't waste any time getting started!  The one on his head can be a forklift or bulldozer.  That one and the airplane are from Grammy.  The firetruck and police truck are from the Gross and Gregorys.  Greg and I are letting him spend his birthday money from us on our Easter trip to Singapore when we are going to also visit Legoland-I am a little worried that we won't be able to get him to leave there!

 This is on March 10th-we said that his hair was excited it was his birthday!  So FUN celebrating with Ryan!