Jack's 16th Birthday!

 For Jack's 16th birthday we decided we'd do 16 things!  This was harder than I thought it would be when I first came up with the idea.  It was like a logic puzzle trying to figure out what was open, when things opened, and drive times to get to certain places at certain times.  We started out a little before 8:00 after opening presents at home!

 Stop 1:  Birthday Donuts!

 Blowing out his candles!

 Stop 2:  Visiting our old next door neighbors

 Stop 3:  Visiting my parents

 Stop 4:  Coffee House on Cherry Street

 Stop 5:  Woodward Park with friends

 Stop 6:  Lunch with Dad at Smittys

 Stop 7:  Vintage Toy Mall

Stop 8:  Sugar Booger

 Stop 9:  Andy Bs

 They pooled their tickets to get us this great sign...

 Stop 10:  Barnes & Noble for a new minifigure

 Stop 11:  Rocket Fizz for some new fun sodas to try

4:30:  Officially 16!!  (Pic in the parking lot of Jay's clinic because we were on the way home.)

 Stop 12:  Picking out his "birthday cake"--because I didn't know if we'd have any time to go home and I didn't want to make something only to have it melt in the heat, I didn't make him a regular cake.

 Stop 13:  Eggroll Express for dinner

Stop 14:  Haikey Creek with friends

 Opening presents

 His candles barely fit on his cake!

 They hiked until it was almost dark

Stop 15:  Fountains with friends

 It's always a good time for a game of Concentration!

Stop 16:  M&M McFlurry!


It was an exhausting day, but we had such a fun time!  I can't believe my little baby is 16 already!  Happy birthday, Jackabooter!  We love you so much!

Alice's 11th Birthday

 Alice really wanted to go to Robbers Cave for her birthday, so we got up bright and early and after opening presents with Jay before work, we hit the road! 

 A few pictures when we got there...

 Alice decorated her own cupcakes.  We ate them first thing because I knew they would be a disgusting melted mess if we waited!

 I told her that if she wanted to make this trip instead of a regular party it would be small because there aren't a lot of people I would ask to drive two hours in crazy heat for a birthday.  Thankfully we have some awesome friends!

 After the cupcakes we hiked!

 It's so beautiful there!

 In the cave!

 We had lunch and opened presents.

 Then it was time to swim!

 Sno cones!

 3:31:  An official 11 year old

 They had a great time swimming to the dock and jumping off.

It was such a great day!  We were worn out when we got home, but it was worth it!

School's Out!

 Friday was our last official day of school for the 2019-2020 school year!  As always, there are some things that we'll continue through the summer, but once we have officially declared the year over, we can take the day to do something fun and not feel at all guilty about it!

 We had our traditional food flags--sorry I am not sure how to put these all in one pic on the desktop!

We've been doing these a long time!

This summer is going to look quite a bit different than recent years.  Camps have been postponed and the fair is not going to happen as planned.  Alice isn't signed up for any kinds of classes at all!  Jack is going to be swimming again and hopefully will be working some, too.  We're definitely disappointed to miss out on some of these things, but on the bright side, we're hoping that we'll have more time for the pool and some day trips, too!