Ethan's 10th Birthday

Ethan was able to have another fun birthday weekend.  The kids didn’t have school on Friday and we had cousins spending the weekend with us. Ethan is always excited to have more kids to play with and the kids all loved the multi-day cousin sleep over and had so much fun.  We went hiking and adventured around the town.  Friday we rode the bus to the dollar store for a budgeting activity as part of a Faith in God project Ethan was working on.  Then walked to the library to pick up books that were on hold for Ethan’s California Mission project.  That afternoon we hiked up to deer flats and went out to Cafe Rio for dinner.

Ethan ran a 5k the morning of his birthday with Gramma and Papa Finlay. Margaret signed him up on Wednesday so he hadn’t trained at all and hadn’t felt great the day before so wasn’t sure he could run that morning.  He enjoyed walking and talking with Gramma and Papa for the first little bit, but then his competitive side came out and he decided to run.  He took 5th in his age group and is sure he could win next year. 

The other kids and I joined at the finish line for “Ethan’s birthday party” in which there were all kinds of bounce houses that the kids were thrilled about and we told Ethan we had invited the whole city to his party.  He chose all the food for meals on Saturday, but we had his official family birthday dinner party on Sunday for which he requested ribs that he and James started cooking Saturday morning by sous-viding them for 36 hours.  

Ethan has become very involved in James’ new cooking hobby with the sous vide and also wanted to make his own birthday cake-a peach cobbler.