March - Happy 8th birthday, Gabe!

I am really struggling here! I WANT to have a blog, I just don't have TIME to keep one! :(
So here are the highlights for March….

Gabe turned 8! Gabe's birthday was March 23rd and we decided to let him invite a few friends to the local gymnastics center and just run crazy for a couple of hours. It seems like in the past, I have tried to always plan these wonderfully detailed parties with games and structured activities, and then they just want to plant anyways! So this time, I decided not to knock myself out and just took them to the gymnastics center! It was Gabe, Carter and Jordan (friends from school), Michael (a neighbor) and Caleb. Then afterwards, we came back to our house and had pizza and cake. Gabe is all into BeyBlades right now (basically a spinning metal top thing that you "launch" with a rip-cord) so he got lots of those and his cake was shaped like a beyblade.
ALSO! I should note, at the last minute, we decided to baptize him in Wisconsin when we visit in June instead of doing it in our ward. There are just so many kids out here and they do the baptisms all on one Saturday each month and it's just totally not personal or special, so we decided to be snobs and say "No thank you, we are doing in elsewhere." haha No, the Bishop and Primary President both totally said, "We understand, it will be more special for him out there in Wisconsin," (translation: "We know it sucks doing it out here but there are so many friggin' kids we have to do assembly-line baptisms or else we'd never get them all done.") haha

What else in March?? I am trying to remember because it is now May as I am writing thing…. oops. I THINK Gabe also had his basketball in March - which was a little Saturday morning league that he played it. It was his first experience playing basketball and he did pretty well! A lot of the boys he played against were in third grade (he is in second) so that got a little discouraging, but still won a few games! Here is one picture of his little team!

Oh! I also forgot to mention! In February, we went down to Utah around Valentine's Day to visit Stacey and Kamrie! It was just a weekend trip, but it was really fun! I got to go shopping with the girls and Josh visited a friend and took the kids to the movies. (Don't mind how I look at big as Josh in this picture - I think I was standing closer to the camera or on a hill or something!!)

Well we will leave it at that! Now I need to find some pictures!