Andrew and Freddy's 16th Birthday Party!!!

We couldn't have it the week of their birthday, November 30th, because we had 7 concerts that week. Then it was the Christmas season and every weekend was packed and over winter break we were busy with family and a lot of their friends were out of town. So we finally found a day that worked almost 2 months later! It was worth the wait. 

We had a great crowd of awesome kids here to celebrate with them. My last count was 38 kids at our house. I always love to have my house full of such sweet, talented, kind and amazing teens. What a dream!

Daniel and Brandon Mounteer

Laney, Branden Strong and Lilli

Sarah MaGill, Brianna Watkins, Rachel Mounteer

Karlee and Kyler

Emma and Makenna

Sara, Brynn and Lilly

Such great friends!

Dad, Leigh and Josh

Silly Dad!!!!

Claudia, Blake Allen, Andrew, Noah

Meagan, Lydia, Trevor

Kara and Micah Sasaki, Josh's future sister and brother in law

Andrew and Patrick

Rachel Mounteer, Leann ?, Lilly, Lilli, Sara, Tommy, Brynn, Brandon and Daniel

These 3 sweet guys drove over an hour to get here from Gilbert. We love our choir friends!

Daniel, Freddy, Ethan, Andrew, Miles and Josh

We had homemade salsa and chips, Takis, 3 kinds of  cake, coconut, almond and Texas sheet cake, veggies and lots and lots of Italian cream sodas!!!

Andrew and Josh  Jordan's special dance they do together, such goofballs.

The missionaries dropped by just in time for the big group pictures. We were missing a few kids around in other parts of the house and some that came later, but this was most of them.

Sabrina, Andrew, Morgan, Noah Fechter

Daniel, Lilly, Tommy, Sara, Isabelle Hunsaker, Andrew, Brynn, Patrick and Ethan

Laney and Josh Jensen invented a fun balloon game. They got a big group playing and laughing in the hall.

Lydia, Emma Hutchinson and Morgan Muth

Left to Right:

Claudia ?, Makenna Zepp, Patrick Wrubleski, Trevor Watkins, Meagan Ballew,  Ethan and Miles

Starting front left of center and going clockwise:

Karlee Greason, Josh Jordan, Sarah MaGill, Karen ?, Freddy, Kyler Johnson, Lilli Young, Mya Hall

Leigh, Josh, Kara and Micah all hid up stairs playing Smash Bros.

Freddy and Nathan sharing his Freddy's uniform

We had a lot of musicians! At one point both guitars, 3 ukuleles and the piano were all being played and lots of them were singing. However, I don't think any of them were playing the same song. It was pretty loud and hilariously awesome!

Left to Right

Makenna Zepp, Nathan Tanner, Emma Hutchinson, Ethan ?, Miles ? (hiding in the back), Josh Jensen, Tommy Lundquist, Brynn Wilde and Lilly Jensen

Josh Jensen and Laney had a great time making up games together and playing. 

He's such a sweet guy!

Andrew, Nathan Tanner, Freddy

Freddy said it exceeded his expectations and that everyone had a wonderful time. Both, Freddy and Andrew, were sad to be missing a few of their friends, but other than that, it was AWESOME!!!

Feeling better

Still sore, but doing much better and off of narcotics and on Tylenol. It's so great to be able to stay awake and think again. Life did not slow down much for our family, but everyone pitched in and took great care of me while keeping everything going.

We had Sara's friend Hannah and the missionaries over for family home evening on Monday night. It was lots of fun as always. I just sat in my chair and enjoyed it all!

Tuesday afternoon, we had a visit from a missionary who had previously been in our area, Elder Towle. We love him and were so happy to get to see him for a little bit! He said to send his love to Tim in Korea.

He arm wrestled with Freddy.

Things were looking good for Freddy until Elder Towle actually turned on the muscle and whipped his arm to the table. It was pretty hilarious! Freddy laughed it off.

Gram and Papa came by for a visit and Leigh was over too. She's here more days than not now. 

We sure love her!

Dad was being silly and sticking out his Superman chest, so then he showed us his muscles. 

He so adorable!

Josh was pretty wiped out from a long day at work. He needed some love.

Wednesday, my sweet Momma and I went to lunch at Cha Da Thai and then to my follow up appointment with the doc. The curries were heavenly!!! She got the Panang Curry and I got the Pumpkin Curry.  I really could eat Thai food everyday!!!!

Daniel was playing a piece he's been working on for me and Freddy had to hug him mid song. It was pretty adorable. I love that my teenage boys love each other so much.

Wednesday, Leigh made an early birthday dinner for Josh. They had Indian food; Tandoori chicken, naan, green curry and tumeric rice. The camera flash was a little much for him. LOL!

And a yummy birthday cake!

Thursday was Josh's birthday, so since I am not up to cooking yet, we took them out to celebrate at Nick's Diner. They serve delicious Greek food. Rich had the lamb shank, Leigh and I had the Greek chicken and Josh had a huge gyro and onion rings. It was all wonderful!

Meanwhile, the kids at home had hurried to do Josh's chores and to make sweet notes for him.

Friday evening we had the twins 16th birthday party. It will be it's own post to follow.

Saturday, Sara and I did a little shopping together. I have lost 42 pounds this last year and really needed some new clothes. It was a lot of fun to just be girls together.