Hang on to your hats, Aaron is 16!

We started the celebration of Aaron's 16th birthday at Panda Express~his favorite.Aaron is the only one who uses chopsticks and he is dang good at it too.

The evening before his birthday Richard and I took him to get his present. He tried several bikes and chose this "Mongoose". The dirt bike will work well for him on the dirt and gravel roads up north.

Richard and Aaron

Jimmy eat World?????

James, Kaila and of course Jordan.

Brothers

This is a sweet story. Aaron loves to swim (as you will see) and the neighbor has been so good to let us use their pool. They have 2 grandsons that adore Aaron. They would come over and ask if he could swim! They found out it was his birthday and Bridget and the boys made Aaron this funfetti cake.

Yes! Presents.

Aaron asked for a Tres Leches Cake (3 milk cake). I told him I would try. I called Abish for the recipe (Thanks Abish) and did my best to recreate what he was wanting. To my amazement it was delicious! I couldn't have asked for it to turn out better. Lighting the candles though was a little difficult until we turned off the ceiling fan.

Make a wish.

Time to open the wrapped presents. Here is a knife from Dad and I.

You just have to get your favorite breakfast cereal!

After dinner, cake and presents we all went swimming. Here are the brothers~we were missing Dustin :(
Kyle, Aaron, James and Tyler

We sure didn't leave Jordan out of the fun. She loved it until it got a little cold.

Now she is warm.

All in all we had a great time. Congratulations Aaron. Not only will you be driving on your own soon. . . . . BUT now you can DATE!!
Holy Cow~watch out girls!