Happy Birthday Aaron!!!!

Wednesday, Jan. 14Th, was Aaron's 15Th birthday. The years have just flown by and I can't believe my first baby has grown into a wonderful young man!!! It seems he should be toddling around under my feet still.....not towering above me!! Aaron is a great teenager and really makes our job as his parents easy. I am so very proud of what he has become and I can't wait to see what is yet to come.
To start his day off in a special way, Kristen, Morgan and Ian got up early and made pancakes for Aaron's breakfast in bed.

They tiptoed upstairs with breakfast in hand...complete with a candle!! Here they are about to go into Aaron's room.

WAKE UP BROTHER!!! They flipped the light on and sang Happy Birthday to wake him up.

AAHHHHHH....he was trying to open his eyes in the bright light!

After he blew out his candle, they set the plate down and then they all attacked him!

Happy Birthday to the BEST big brother in the whole world!! (even if he was having a hard time keeping his eyes open)

After breakfast, we got the books out to do a bit of school work for the day. Everyone worked hard and was finished by noon. Here is Kristen working on her history lesson.

Momo started working on a new pocket book called Healthy Me, Happy Me.

Ian worked on some pages in his workbook.

Here is Aaron doing some reading......can you guess what he was reading? The driver's test book of course!!!

Here is Grandpa after he had his coffee and breakfast.

Aaron did his favorite thing for his birthday....he played music!! The band was playing for the youth group at church that night. Some of his friends also surprised him with a pie in the face and silly string before he played!!! After church, he went out to eat with a group. That is a weekly activity they do after Wed. night church.

Once he finally made it home, we had a cake for him. Kristen had made the cake before church. We were out of candles so he only had one to blow out.

Here he is!!! The birthday boy getting a big hug from his little sister who absolutely adores her big brother. His hair is not wet in the picture....it is just a big sticky mess from the pie he encountered earlier that night!!

Thursday was just a quiet school day at home. Morgan made a neat diorama for her LLATL lesson. Here she is working on that.

Ian just being cute!

I also babysat Kayden again. Look at these gorgeous blue eyes!!

Momo with her finished diorama.

Aaron did some more in his art lesson book. These are "scribble figures". He was to make several figures using a small scribble motion but the trick was he couldn't pick his pencil up off the paper until it was complete.

I think this drawing is really neat. He had to fill in each area with a different pattern. He used instructions from a drawing book for the sea creature and then colored it in with the patterns.

Here is Momo typing her first post in her new blog!! She is loving having her own blog. Thank you to everyone who has been by and left comments on all of the kids blogs. They really love it!