Weekend Wrap-Up

On Friday after work I headed to Emporia to pick Miles up. It's been a few weeks since we have seen him so we were all excited to spend some time with him this weekend and celebrate his birthday. We timed our trip perfectly because we got back to Wichita just in time to pick Jeff up at the airport. He had been in St. Louis all week.

Miles used his Christmas money to buy a laptop and suddenly last week the laptop locked up on him. He tried several times to restart the computer and do a hard reset (??? I think that's what it is called) but nothing worked. So we called Sam's Club Friday on the way back home and they said as long as he had the receipt and it was within 6 months of the purchase date they would take it back. Of course Gateway is no longer making that same model so he used some of his birthday money and upgraded to a really nice HP desktop. I think this will probably be better for him in the long run because kids can be pretty rough on laptops. So Friday night was kind of like Christmas all over again. He and Jeff spent hours getting it all set up.

On Saturday we worked in the yard all morning. While Jeff mowed the yard I taught Miles how to edge. It wasn't perfect when he finished up but I had to remind myself that it was his first time and most importantly I didn't have to do it. When he came inside he said "That job sucks! It's so hard." I told him not to worry about it because by the end of the summer he would be a pro at it. He definetely didn't like the sound of that.

Saturday evening all of our family came over for dinner and to celebrate Miles birthday. We let the birthday boy chose the meal and he wanted steak, baked potatoes and salad. He also requested Boston Cream Pie. I hadn't made one in a long time but it turned out pretty yummy. I'm not a huge fan of Boston Cream Pie so I also made a Cherry Chocolate cake!!!

Here's a few pictures of the birthday boy!!! It's so hard for me to believe that he is 15 years old.

Miles being silly as usual. He always has to try and pose like a model just for laughs when someone gets out the camera.

Grant and Miles

We even had some special visitors during the party. Last night was Nick (Jeff's stepbrother) prom so he and his date along with another couple stopped by after dinner so we could take a few pictures. It of course started to rain right after they got here so we didn't really get the shots in the yard with all the flowers in the background like we had planned.

Megan looked absolutely gorgeous in her dress. I loved the bright green accents.
















Nick and Megan

Here's Grant with the girls. He was so embarrased about taking this picture.

Grant with Uncle Nick