Monday, August 12, 2013

Jake's 16th Birthday

Our traditional picture by the "Happy Birthday" sign! This is his birthday morning. Then on to tennis for "two-a-days" at Permian High School. He ended the day with the #4 rank on the team.
 
We took a cake and cookie cake to Youth Group that evening, his actual birthday - here they are beginning to sing Happy Birthday!


 We are so blessed to have this wonderful youth group!
Tonight (Aug. 12), 17 members of the Permian Tennis Team came over, including Coach Bullard, and WE GOT HIM!
Since I didn't have a sister here, I asked one of the players to video while Lane lit the candles and I got my camera. Luke was with Jake in the playroom playing a video game - he made a big deal asking Jake to play a particular game after he got off work.

Lots of fun in the playroom waiting for Lane to return with the Chik-Fil-A party platter! That is Coach Bullard on the left in the gray shirt hitting the ball.

 Being silly, of course! The girl next to him, Megan, is a wonderful Christian young lady, and she and Jake have become good friends.
We were so blessed to have his classmates/teammates in our home. We told Coach he was welcome to host team events here, and we really hope he takes us up on it. Oh - almost forgot. We had home movies running in the background, and the group was in hysterics over some of the diaper/dancing video. I asked Jake if he wanted me to turn it off at one point, and he said no, that they were having fun watching.

2 comments:

  1. What a great night! I'm so glad that you were able to surprise him! Love that you were playing home videos.

    K

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  2. This looks like so much fun!!!! You are such a good example of a great mom- doing these things for your boys- great hospitality and just loving life and celebrating your kids!
    Cheri

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