Nathaniel's Birthday

It's birthday season in our family and we started it off with Birthday "Sunday" at my brother's house.  Back in the day, Nathaniel was the only birthday in July.  Then we got two more six years later with Dallin and Brigham.  Then we got two more with Bodie and Blake so July has turned out to be quite the month for birthdays.

We always start with the youngest so after Bodie and Blake it was Brigham's turn.

 I thought to grab my camera just after he blew out his candle and Dallin was just about to blow his out.  I'm glad I remembered.

Then it was Nathaniel's turn.  He seemed a little amused at the attention.  That's Bodie on Scott's lap.  We already sang to him.

It was a great party.  We had to do it on a Saturday a week early because my parents were going to be out of town and so we were a little more rowdy than usual.

A week later we celebrated Nathaniel's actual birthday.  His activity of choice is to go see a movie.  Since Pixar did not release a movie this year we decided to see How to Train Your Dragon.  I was a little worried that I wouldn't like it but ended up being surprised at how much I did like it.

We came home and I made his favorite dinner: Chicken Broccoli and Rice casserole and we had brownies and opened presents.

 So many candles!

Tasty treats!

His presents.  He specifically asked for the animation book, he said it was the one everyone talks about.  I decided to get him the Avatar comics on my own since we enjoyed the series so much.  He also got his own copy of Portal.  It's a download so it's not easy to wrap or show off so you'll just have to take my word for it.  He was the most excited for that one so I was happy to get it for him.

Happy Birthday, Nathaniel!  I love you!