Birthday Activities

Since we have neglected the kids with all of their requests for fun things this simmer because of the house project, we decided to take Zak's birthday and spend the whole day doing things that the kids have wanted to do.

They have been asking for quite a while to go to the skate & bike park, so we loaded up their bikes, scooters, and skateboards, and went for a morning of fun.

After only a few minutes, they all had flat tires.
These are the goat heads that we pulled out of Les and Zak's bike tires.

And there were more in Amber's tires than in both of the boys combined.

So, they played at the skate park, and had lots of fun.

Zak tried his new scooter on the ramp.

And Les did every skateboard trick he knows. He was so excited that the park had rails when we pulled in, but he didn't know how to do anything with them.

And we only had one minor injury.

Then, for the afternoon, we went to the state capitol for some activities. All of the activities were centered around the building of the capitol building, or the recent restoration of it. There were also games that would have been played at the time the Capitol was first dedicated.

There was jump rope.

Parachute.

And each child could build a Capitol building with gum drops and toothpicks.

The kids were sad that Brian missed our trip to Salt Lake a few weeks ago, so we revisited some of the places we went that day too. We played in the fountain at the Gateway, went to the Church History Museum, and to Temple Square.

I think that Zak had a fun birthday. He had this smile the whole day

And then on Sunday, we had Grammy and Gramps over for a barbecue.
I think this was his favorite gift yet!