My Baby Turned 13!

This weekend Grant turned 13. Now both of my kids are teenagers! Life goes by so quickly! For Grant's birthday this year he wanted to take a few friends to Fiddlesticks, an amusement park in Tempe. Afterwards, his buddies came to our house for video games and to spend the night. The first thing all the boys wanted to do was drive the go-carts. I lost track of how many times they decided to ride on them. Later the did several rounds of miniature golf and then soaked each other on the bumper boats.

Right before we were going to leave, Grant and his friends chose to ride the "kiddie" rides. Yes, I had four teenage boys riding in dragons.

Watch the boys enjoy the Dragon Ride!

After the dizzying Dragon Ride was over, they jumped onto the train roller coaster. This one may make you throw up!

Take a look at the death defying train roller coaster!

Back at home we had ice cream and Grant's favorite cake, Jello Cake. Then the boys were off playing a variety of video games as late as their eyes would possibly let them!

As shocking as it may seem, the boys eventually stopped playing video games and went to sleep. This is the group right before the smell of pancakes woke them up!

After a hearty breakfast, Grant opened up all of his gifts. He received money and gift cards from his friends and relatives.

He received PSP games from his mom...

...as well as a PSP gaming case to house some of his fun.