Forever Young: John's 12th Birthday Party

After a looooooooong break from posting, I'm going to attempt to get back to documenting our life on the blog! Instead of trying to catch up, I'm just going to jump in where we are today, which is celebrating John's 12th birthday. His actual birthday is this upcoming Saturday, July 6th, but since we will be on the road to our Young family vacation in Virginia Beach we had his family party this past Tuesday night. He requested to have his party that night because he wanted to go the "midnight" showing of the Lone Ranger, which opened that night (I guess that's not too late for a 12 year old, huh?). The first showing that night was actually at 10:30, which felt "midnight-ish" enough to me! It's been raining at some point practically every day these last few weeks, so I was glad we had a nice evening to hang out on the deck and celebrate my not-so-little man turning 12.

That afternoon I made his annual jersey birthday cake. This year he requested a Kentucky jersey, which I'm sort of surprised we hadn't already done. He didn't love having the number 12 on it, because that was Kentucky's not so great point guard last year, Ryan Harrow, but it was also worn by former Wildcat and NBA player Brandon Knight, so that made it a bit better!

May be my best yet (easy letters to cut out!)

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Like I said, the weather was perfect so we spent most of the evening playing in the back yard. My parents were in Bowling Green for my second cousin Eric Wallace's funeral visitation, so they were missed, but the rest of us enjoyed hanging out and catching up.