We officially gained a third teenager in December! Liam is currently looking hard at joining the Air Force and requested a fighter jet for his birthday cake. He has way too much confidence in me.
However, with my trusty 2-liter of caffeine and a lot of prayers, I think I did a pretty decent job.
It was at the point of this drawing that I realized the cake was going to need to be larger and then things just escalated.
To this!
And this. Five boxes of cake later. Mark did the piping details. Ya’ll. I breathed a sigh of relief when this was done.
Now to birthday gifts:
Liam has requested role-playing games. This kid loves games. We found a Christian RPG game and Papa and Grandmere ordered it for him. They have already enjoyed the quests in it! From there, we found out that one of the guys over this game is an author also AND is a former fighter pilot. Absolutely crazy coincidences!
Thirteenth birthdays are a big deal in our family. Starting with Zoe, we developed the tradition that 13th birthday gifts would be a trip. The birthday kid gets to choose somewhere to go. Zoe got Ukraine because we were going there and she had learned the language. Subsequent trips, unless they choose a mission trip, will be in the lower 48. Ace chose St. Louis for the arch and general architecture. Liam was a little iffy. Mark was supposed to go to training in San Francisco and after much discussion had chosen there. Then the trip got cancelled and he went back to his number one choice…we’ll share about that in a few weeks.
