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A teenager is born!

Isn't he the CUTEST at thirteen? Seriously, I can't stop staring.
What a milestone for Adren! Actually, this is the year that everyone has a milestone birthday: Adren becomes a teenager; Eli turns 12, receives the Priesthood, leaves Primary and enters Young Men; Paisley turns double digits; Zeke turns 8 and gets baptized! And I thought when they were ages 2-4-6 & 8 it was cool!
With Adren now in big Junior High I no longer send a birthday bag of blow-pop suckers with him to hand out. I was going to put a little sum'-sum' in his locker at school, but he never opens it. The kids decided they would get up extra early on his big day to watch him open gifts and see him off, which I thought was so sweet.

 The Cake!

He told some friends to meet at our house after school and I took them to Blaster Tag up in Orem. Afterwards we grabbed some Pizza's and came back here for some hang-out time. He's got a real great group of friends.
That evening after his guitar practice and grandparents were kind enough to come over we cut into that ginormous peanut butter and chocolate cake and celebrated our Adren.



After a LOT of feeding and watering, we've grown a teenager! ❤️ And he's the sweetest one around. Sure love you, "Little A!"

He's doing great in school, all A's and a couple B's, which is surprising to me because at that age I would have been thrilled with all C's. He still can cause some trouble with his younger brothers and sister, we're still working on that. He loves friend time, video games, playing soccer and football and needs to practice that guitar more. He's currently the secretary in his Deacon quorum, which I like because he can come to BYC with me. I love being available for him when he comes home from school because he tells me all about his classes and friends and I just gobble it all up. He's making good choices and watching him grow up has been some of the best parts of my life. We LOVE Adren!!!

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