Noah's 13th Birthday

Noah turned 13 this year.  I can't believe he is getting so old and is officially a teenager now.  He wanted to invite a few friends to Planet Play.  They have a pizza buffet and then some games, laser tag and cars to ride.  The kids all seemed to have a fun night.  On Sunday, we had the family come over for pizza and cake.

Noah with his presents

Ready for church on his birthday

Video game and movie

The boys who came to his party from left to right, Matthew Hansen, Zac Mccleve, Nolan Dewolf, Josh and Noah

His birthday cake.  He loves the chocolate chip oatmeal cake that my mom always used to make us growing up.

Christmas

I'm so behind on posting on this blog.  Sometimes I think I will just let it go but it's like my scrapbook so I hate to just quit doing it.  We had another great Christmas.  We had our family Christmas party in Logan at Kelly's house on the Saturday before Christmas.  It was a lot of fun.  We had dinner, games, white elephants, talent show and just enjoying being together.  We really missed Raleigh and Tara this year.  They weren't able to come down since Christmas was in the middle of the week and Raleigh had to work.  Sad times.  On Christmas Eve, we went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and to see Christmas lights.  Then we came home and watched Christmas Vacation.  We have to watch that every year.  It's such a classic and has so many good quotes.  I had Noah for Christmas Eve and morning this year and then he went to Kent's.  This year, Noah got a Gordon Hayward jersey, movies, books and Jazz stuff.  He didn't really ask for anything specific this year but he seemed to be happy with what he got. 

The kids in Kelly's hot tub

Playing games

Christmas Eve dinner at the Cheesecake Factory

Christmas Eve....looks like Santa came

Thanksgiving

We had a nice Thanksgiving this year.  Once again, all my siblings came to my moms but Noah was with Kent.  We are hoping to get things on track somehow so that we are on the same schedule.  Of course we all ate a ton and then hung out and played games and just enjoyed each others company.   I thought I had taken some pics but didn't get any this time.

School Basketball

Noah made it on the jr. high basketball team.  He is so excited.  I didn't have much hope for him to make it, not because I didn't think he was good enough but because there was 100 kids trying out and they were only going to choose 3-4 7th graders.  He loves basketball and tried his heart out.  He made it along with Cody Meza  and Nick Yingling so that is pretty exciting.  His first game is next Wednesday.

Halloween

It's kinda weird and sad not to do the whole Halloween thing like going to the school parties and parades.  Noah actually ended up trick or treating with Josh and some of his friends from school.  He wasn't going to go at all until they invited him at the last minute.  He dressed up as a basketball player.  Pretty original right?  lol  This will probably be his last year going.  Sad that he is growing up so fast and getting too old for some of these kiddie things.

We also went to the Scarecrow Festival

Carving pumpkins

Wicked in Vegas

This past weekend we went to Vegas and went and saw the musical "Wicked."  I didn't really know the music or story before we went so I wasn't sure if I would like it but it was awesome.  It's probably my new favorite Broadway play.   I loved the music and story.  We stayed at Tara's.  It was my parents, Tara and Kenny and Mel that went.  Noah came to Vegas with us but he just stayed with Raleigh while we were at the play.

Tara was my date for the play...lol

SBO

Noah tried out and made it for SBO (Student Body Officer) at Matheson.  He is so excited.  He campaigned really hard.  We had fun making his posters and figuring out each day what he could hand out to help him get elected.  He was one of the 4 chosen out of about 30 students to go to the finals.  I was so proud that he even wanted to try out.  He has to wear a shirt that says SBO Matheson every Monday and Wednesday.  He also gets to help do the school announcements and news, help at school events and assemblies.