Garrett's 14th Birthday Friends Party

Today is Garrett's 14th birthday and we did some celebrating over the weekend. We started out with a friends birthday party on Saturday. He invited 3 friends: Austin, Sadie and Kayla. All 3 are in our ward at church. After our ward breakfast social we came home and cleaned up the house to get ready for friends to come around 1:30pm. We were debating on whether to eat right at the beginning or do it at the end since he was ending the party at 5:00pm. Finally we decided it would be best to do it at the beginning. We had pizza (Garrett's favorite), salad and soda pop. Austin and Sadie showed up first at the scheduled time but Kayla came late. While waiting for Kayla the other kids played some foosball in our family room and then went outside to the play house where they took turns on the swings and hammocks. 

After Kayla finally arrived we did the birthday singing and gifts. Garrett doesn't really like cake so he had donuts for his "cake". For years now I have been telling the kids that they can choose their own dessert item for their birthday. No sense in making cake if they don't want to eat it! 

They then went to the family room to play some Mario Kart on the video game system (the Switch). The original idea was to watch a movie next but they didn't have time so they just hung out and went back outside to the play set for awhile. Sadie had to leave early and after hanging out a little while more we got the donut eating game set up. We did this last because they were so full from eating pizza and donuts earlier. Garrett really likes donuts! At the very end they watched Garrett play his new Zelda game. I wish they would have played a card game or something together because it would be boring to me to sit there and watch someone else play at a birthday party. Oh well. They still all had a good time.

Sadie getting pushed on the swing by Charlotte.

Now Alice joined Sadie and Austin got on the other swing. They love the swings!

Jack wrapped his gift to Garrett in the biggest box and titled it the Ogre box because he wrapped it in layers. You'll understand if you've seen the movie "Shrek" where ogres are like onions, they have layers, lol.

Charlotte picked out this game for Garrett and we made it from both of the girls. It's called Quick Pucks.

Jack earned money by working at my grandma's house and saved enough money to buy Garrett this game, which was wrapped in the ogre box. That is amazing to me considering how expensive video games are. This one was around $50!

Playing Mario Kart

Charlotte and Alice are ready for the donut eating game.

Jack, Austin, Garrett, Kayla all ready for the donut eating game. Garrett was the one who planned his party so he really wanted to play this game even though he was already having donuts for his "cake".

I will post about our family birthday celebration that we had on Sunday in the next post.