The Birthday Celebration

With yesterday being our youngest child's birthday and the entrance into his teen years we wanted to make some special family memories together. We started off the celebration by blindfolding him and reading off four different challenges. He was supposed to pick one of them to accomplish to celebrate his entrance into the teen years and "manhood". (They actually were not that difficult.) He choose the making the snow angel in the snow without any snow gear on. For some reason he didn't pick the wading in the creek challenge. After accomplishing his challenge he go to pick from three different choices. The choices were "Family", "Game Play", or "Pleasure". He picked the "Pleasure" card. On the back it told him he that we were going to the Mandarin. (A wonderful Chinese buffet) and that he could rent a movie. Therefore we got in the van and headed off to the Mandarin. We had a great time there and came home VERY full. We gave Titus a board game he really wanted so when we got home we played several games of that with him. We missed Caleb being with us but was glad Kristina and Zachary were able to join us for the celebration.