Our Cute New 7 Year Old

How can it be? My sweet baby boy is growing up faster and faster than I can handle. We celebrated Wonderful Watson for a week. He got a special breakfast with whipped cream and a little bit of waffle on his birthday and had a fun celebration at Grandma Nettie's with family that night. We gave him his own BMX race bike and a new helmet. He enjoyed a maple bar as his guests ate the rest of the donuts. We also had our annual Hoopes Labor Day campout. Watson literally partied all night long on his birthday. 

Saturday we hosted a dozen boys for a game of baseball and a party of water games and hot dogs. I loved to see Watson be so excited to be with his group of friends. We invited a couple of boys from his old elementary school, one from his new school, and a few from our neighborhood. They got along great and other than one threatening to drench me with water balloons, it was a fun time for all. Wow. 7 year old boys can be stinkers. 

Lovely Lake Mary

Labor Day was the perfect day for a family hike. We made our way up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Snowbird. Daisy and Watson were troopers during the whole hike. Of course Watson wanted to throw rocks in the water for hours on end and Daisy wanted to sit down and play. The water was pretty cold so we just dipped in Daisy's toes. The lake was beautiful and we watched little polliwogs swim around.