Conrad's 9th Birthday

Conrad is now nine and he's growing up fast!  The kids were out of school for Spring Break for his birthday.  It worked out nice to have him home.  He was a bit bummed that he could be the birthday kid on his real birthday.  But, we had a fun day.

Conrad's favorite holiday is Easter because he loves dying eggs.  We ended up dying eggs after breakfast.  He wanted to go to the park in the afternoon.  The weather wasn't super nice, but nice enough if we wore coats we could endure the wind. ;)  Con really wanted to go to Leo's place to get pizza and play in the arcade.  We met up with my parents for dinner that night.  All of the kids had a blast and we had a fun time chatting with my parents.

 Here he is opening some gifts:

 Here's what he got:

 He wanted a "Chipper Jones" cake (no, he is not ten that's Chipper's number. :))

I had to get a picture of the inside just because I went to the effort of coloring his cake blue and red for the braves also.

It was a fun day!

At 9 Conrad loves

• baseball
• basketball
• riding his bike and rip stick
• fishing with Bo (which he got to do the Monday before his birthday as an early gift because the weather was best that day)
• Playing Kinect Sports 1 & 2 on the xbox 360
• playing with friends and his siblings

We love:

• how he is always trying to make us laugh
• how well he does in school
• how he listens pretty well 
• he's responsible
• that he will still give me hugs even in public
• how his younger brothers look up to him
• having him in our family

Happy Birthday!!!  We love you!!!