What a week we had celebrating Aliza and Josiah--and a few days later--Jeremy!
Aliza is 16! I had all of the feelings. I can't believe we are at 16. I also don't want to hold her back for even a second.
Aliza wanted a friend birthday party. This is such a good group of teenagers. I think the world of each of them. Even the boys had handmade birthday cards for her.
It was a really cold evening so I grilled the hotdogs inside and they ate inside.
But they went outside before supper to play Spud.
And headed back out right after presents. Later we did s'mores and biscuit cups over the fire. They stayed outside all evening, coming in for hot chocolate at one point.
This year's party was in our NEW living room where there was PLENTY of room.
Aliza had the best happy faces.
Josiah was very happy too.
Joel gave him Pokemon cards and there was a good one. And he was very excited.
Since we had lots of leftovers from Aliza's party--and it was a warmer day--Van restarted the fire and we introduced our families to biscuit cups. Everyone approved. Jeremy was, by far, the best biscuit cooker because he is, by far, the most patient human. He had a full time job.
These cousins growing up together warms my heart every time.
As usual, Isaiah roasted and consumed an unreasonable number of marshmallows. At this moment, when Isaiah tripped as he pulled flaming marshmallows out of the fire, Joel and I both gasped and Joel got the picture.
There was tree climbing.
And then soccer, of course. They played for a long, long time.
Joel and Amanda were recruited to be referees which led to Joel giving us commentary on the game that had me laughing. It appears that Isaiah was tired.
That evening my parents stayed for supper along with Jeremy's family. We sat long around the table talking and laughing. And when Amanda made my Dad laugh, the evening was complete.
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