Kade's 10th Birthday!

Kade's Birthday was on February 1st. We always celebrate with the Hadley family on the Sunday closest to the birthday. He will still get to celebrate with the Southwicks later this month when we have a combined February Birthday party! This year Kade wanted either a wii game or a "big" soccer goal for our back yard. Chris and I are both big succers for anything that will encourage our kids to be outside doing something constructive rather than getting more thumb exercise! So even though the price was a little higher, we went for the soccer goal.

Kade has a great Dad. He got online and researched, went to Soccer connection in Ogden and talked to the people there, and then went to Home Depot to talk to some more people. He came up with a great plan to order a net and have him and Kade build the goal together out of PVC when the weather gets a little better. We bought the net and that was what he opened for his Birthday. We started out looking at medium sized goals...but you know how a Man's project gets bigger and bigger...Kade ended up with a soccer goal that will be 20 feet wide by 7 feet tall. That's a big goal. Add that to the full sized volleyball net, tetherball pole, basketball hoop, swingset, fire pit, and sandpile and we should have quite a yard full! Kade didn't know which of the two he would get, so he was pretty anxious to get the present open and see! He said that he had hoped it would be the soccer goal.

Chris got out the tape measure and showed him how big it will be.

These are some of the things that Kade enjoys at the age of 10!!

* Playing Soccer - Indoor and Outdoor

*Playing wii with his friends

*Watching sports with his Dad

* Eating chicken noodle soup, pizza braid, and chocolate chip bundt cake

* Building igoos in the back yard with the neighbor boys

* Playing "moshi monsters" and "roller coaster tycoon" on the computer

* Wearing his new Heely's to Wal-mart (1st time in his life he begs to go shopping with me)

* Math - he dazzles his 4th grade teacher with his math skills!

* Still loves to tease all of those sisters!