Em's Family Celebration.

Yesterday was Em's 13th birthday. Thankfully, we had her party last weekend. She has been sick almost all week. She missed 3 days of school with a fever and sore throat. She went back to school on Friday, but now she seems to have a head cold or whatever she had has morphed into something else!

However, she was well enough to want to go to the Cheesecake Factory for her birthday dinner. We got our cheesecake to go and came home and watched Wall-e.

The picture of Pepper is her watching Em open her gift. She always looks so annoyed in pictures!

Em's 13th birthday party!

Emily doesn't officially turn 13 until next week, but we went ahead and had her party tonight. She wanted to have a "big" party since she hadn't had one in a couple of years.

Her party was at church in "The Station". She wanted to have a pajama party. We had Guitar Hero, Wii karaoke and music, plus 3 awesome girls that came and did hair, nails and makeup. It lasted 2 1/2 hours, although Kevin will tell you it was more like 6 hours! It seems like everyone had a good time and Emily said it was one of her best birthdays, so mission accomplised!

Balloon in the Hood.

This afternoon I got a call from a friend who asked if we were home, which we were. She told us to look out the front door and this is what we saw...

The last football game of the season

Today was the last day for football this Fall. I think Michael has enjoyed playing. We've learned a lot about quarterbacks and their dads being the coach! I'm thinking we'll be requesting a different coach in the Spring. All in all, it was a good time. I can't even tell you if they won today. I think they lost, but not by much.

A boy and his first guitar!

Michael has been taking guitar lessons since this summer using his sister's guitar. We told him that he had wait a couple of months so we could see how dedicated he was. He bugged us the first couple of months wanting his own guitar, but we told him he had to wait. Well, the waiting is over. He loves playing, practicing and going to lessons. Today he got his Cherry Sunburst Les Paul Epiphone 100. I think that's what it is, anyway. Needless to say, he is one happy boy! Oh AND the Titans won again. 8-0 baby!