My boy just turned 11!!! He is getting so big! This is his final year in elementary, yikes! He has made some good friends. I was able to eat lunch with him on his birthday and he was able to invite some friends to eat with us so I could meet them. It's a group of 4 of them, 2 boys and 2 girls and they seem to all get along really well together. He's at that age now were he'd rather be with them than have his mom there at school eating with him. But I don't care, I'm gonna go eat with him anyways cause I love him (even if it embarrasses him.)
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| Look at this boy-he's huge. I can wear his shoes! |
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| Danny presented him with a nice pocket knife. It was his gift for earning the arrow of light but we're just slow like that. |
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| He was excited to get this 20 question game cube that he really wanted. |
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| He is a book nerd just like his mom. So he got a couple of books. |
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| And of course what could be more perfect than combining legos and minecraft. |
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| Birthdays are a family event around here. Everyone likes to be involved. |
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| I promise I really wasn't choking Nate, it just looks that way. I just wanted to give him a hug and he was pulling away from me. |
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| He spend most of his birthday evening doing lego's and minecraft origami. |
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| Nate with his cake. I know this doesn't look that great but it tasted great. He chose a cheesecake this year. I added some decorative cool whip to it to spruce it up but by the time I got some pictures it was all melted away. Oh, well. It was a delicious oreo cheesecake with a lego chima to top it off. |
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| I wonder if his wish came true. |
We're so glad to have Nate in our family. We expect a lot from that boy because we know we can do it. He's a very smart boy. He is growing up and gaining a testimony of the gospel. He gave a talk in primary on how families are strengthened when they work together and he wrote it all himself. Danny and I came in to hear him give it and I was so impressed with the talk that he gave. It was a beautiful talk. He loves to be a leader and I know kids look up to him especially at church. He's involved with a lot of church activities but also school activities. He's getting ready to participate in a lego robotics competition with SAGE, he's on the student council at his elementary and participates in other activities that they have. He started piano lessons with Melissa this year and is picking up on it rather quickly. He started working on primary songs and he frequently goes over and starts playing those songs all the time. He's growing into a great young man but he's still my boy because.even though he was pulling away from me for a hug, we can always count on at least 2 hugs from him before he goes to sleep each night. We're glad we have our Nathan.
