Kory turned 9!

How quickly the years are going.  Kory is officially 9!  He was super excited for his birthday this year.  This year was no exception.  He had to go to school on his birthday, but he had a 4 day weekend so, he was still pretty lucky.  His birthday fell on a Wednesday this year so it was kinda a mad rush as Tyler and I had mutual that night.  Kory LOVES Potatoes!  So, his dinner included mashed potatoes and tator tots.  We were all so full afterward that we had to save dessert for after Ty and I got home.  For weeks Kory had asked to have beignets instead of cake.  I must say...they were rather enjoyable. 


Kory enjoying his beignet!

Kory really wanted to have friends over this year for his birthday, so since he didn't have school Friday we decided to have a little get together.  He invited two of his best friends from school and they each made their own pizzas.  I've decided you can learn a lot about a person by what they put on their pizza.  I had to laugh when some kids only wanted cheese.  Some wanted everything....  Very telling. 

Kory, Nash and Seth!

Kory is a pretty amazing kid.  He is very easy going most of the time.  He is really into the Percy Jackson series as well as the Michael Vey series.  He loves to read.  He was pretty easy to shop for this year because the told me what he wanted.  That worked out well for him!  He asked for a leather jacket and a Halo Lego set.  He also got a Bronco hoodie with Bronco slippers, a new Bear book for scouts and I forget what else at the moment. 
Kory also has some talents.  He still loves and wants to be a chef(hence the make your own pizza party).  He makes the best lemonade in the house.  We all ask him how to make it if we try to make it.  He is the best finder in the house.  If something is lost I usually ask Kory to look for it and he almost always finds it(except my iPod...that is still missing!)  However, he isn't perfect...he does still like to stuff his clothes.  In fact, this is sometimes a major point of contention between us when I find his fresh pile stuffed in his closet, but you know...we all have our weaknesses!:)  He is doing really well in school this year.  He is the easiest to get up in the morning.  Although I know he hates it he does it without griping.  I have noticed he is really maturing this year.  I am so thankful he is my son!  He is a sweetheart.  Oh, and he LOVES video games.  I did get him a shirt that says, "I'm tired of playing video games. ~said NO ONE EVER!!"  He likes it and wears it often.  He still prefers wearing athletic pants over anything else, but is a trooper and wears jeans to school.  I love Kory with all my heart!  His smile is contagious!     

Aquarium

Monty's boss gave him a day off and passes to the Denver Aquarium as a reward for meeting all his goals for the year.  He did an awesome job actually blowing his goals out of the water.  He might not LOVE what he does, but he is good at it.  We decided to just take the kids out of school one day and go.  With the boys in two different districts they just don't have the same days off.  All our boys love nature, and love being taken out of school, so they were all smiles! 

I seriously think we have the best five boys in the world!

Not sure who taught Makai how to smile and look like his eyes are going to pop out of his head, but this is how he is smiling for pictures right now.  Can't fault the kid for being happy!

Maybe Kory taught him!:)

 

Kyle was so excited about this shark!

One of the highlights of the day was getting to feed crickets to the spitting fish.  These fish are pretty accurate and spit rather hard.  Of course, for a group of boys spitting fish would be a highlight.  They would spit water right at the cricket and out of your hand.  The funniest moment of the day was when Monty put his hand over the water thinking the fish could tell food from 'non-food' and they spit right on his hand.  Fast and HARD. At this moment I thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head!

If you know Tyler, you know this is totally his cup of tea!  He loves hands on things like this.  I was glad he had something to do as the rest of the time he looked kind of well...not so impressed!

Makai couldn't get enough of this fake Orangutan.  He kept wandering back to it.  You could tell he was trying to figure out if it was real, or fake.  He loved it.  The next day when I was asking him about the Orangutan I asked him if he knew what it was and he said, "Yeah, it's like a monkey thing."

 

 I think they are ready to go!
Thanks for a fun day Dad.  On the way home we stopped by and had dinner at Cinzetti's.  An Italian all you can eat place.  Lets just say...these boys can seriously EAT!