Josiah's 12th Birthday

This is our last year for not having a teen in the house.  Lord help us!!  Not sure if I'm ready for this.


Josiah has had a camp out for the last 3 years at our house.  Of course we have moved and he was upset about not getting to have his regular party like always.  We hadn't sold our house yet so we agreed to go ahead and have his party there anyway.  The house was empty.  We did have running water and electricity so that was good.  The boys decided to sleep in the living room instead of sleeping bags.  Somehow in the move we got rid of our tents.  His birthday wasn't until the following Wednesday so we had his party on Friday, September 15th.  Once again Maynard took most of the pictures and I always forget to get pictures off of him before I work on my blog.  I'm in this funk where I haven't been wanting to take many pictures.  He invited a few of his friends over from school.  He didn't have as big of a turnout as usual, but I tried to explain to him that his friends are growing up and are in to different things now.  He still had a good party with lots of fun.  They of course played in the woods for most of the time.  Then they wrestled.  I HATE wrestling.  Like for real.  It makes me so nervous that they are really going to get into a real fight eventually.  They ate hot dogs and roasted marshmallows over the fire.  When it got dark they played hide and go seek in the dark.  They loved playing that.

We set up an air mattress to sleep on.  It looked so comfortable.  Until the middle of the night.  The air leaked out of it.  I decided it was more comfortable to sleep on the floor and Amelia slept right on on the half deflated air mattress.

The boys finally went to sleep way up in the night.


We woke up pretty early and I fixed pancakes and sausage links on my griddle.  Something about a hot breakfast tastes so good after camping.

All the kiddos headed home and then we headed to the house for a much needed nap.


On Josiah's actual birthday we went to King's Donuts and brought donuts to share with his class.  Then after school he wanted to have his Birthday dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings.  After that we had church.  My kids are not fans of having birthdays on church nights.  Ha Ha

We ordered him shoes for his birthday online and they ended up being fakes.  He was so disappointed, but we made it up to him later so stay tuned for that!!!!


Now the countdown was on for Titus' birthday!!!!!