Reed's Birthday

This was the week of birthdays!!!  This was the only picture from the whole week so it's what you get to see.  The young man in the striped shirt is Reed's roommate Grant who had his surprise birthday on Friday.  Anyway, Reed's birthday was on Tuesday and we celebrated over two days.  On Monday we had lunch with his mom and then volunteered at Rochester Primary School.  We worked with the "High Readers" group in kindergarten...each child got to read a book aloud to us and we helped with new words.  When we went back to one classroom a little redhead boy (that had spent a substantial amount of time struggling to pay attention) came running up to Reed and gave him a ginormous hug.  My favorite kid was a little girl with chubby cheeks and glasses perched on her nose.  She knew every single word and was able to sound out the tough ones.   Then on Tuesday we went to my mom's house where we had dinner and I gave him his new George Foreman grill.  He picked it out the other day when we were at Fred Meyer and the grill was sitting there just begging us to get it.  So then when I tried to decide whether it was an appropriate gift he asked if we should call some of his buddies to ask what they thought of me buying a grill for his birthday. I was thoroughly convinced after he said it was an ultimate manly item.  Thursday we made burgers on his new grill!