Jack's 13th Birthday

Jack's 13th birthday was on Saturday the 5th. It was a perfect day of the week to have a party or at least a hang out with a couple of friends. We started the day out with French toast for breakfast. Then did some cleaning up and a little shopping. Jack's two friends Porter and Rhett came over at 2:00. Curtis took Jack and his friends and Porter's dad to Jeremy's Arcade in downtown Nampa to play games for a few hours. It's cool because you pay $4 per person and can play as many games as you want all day. You can also leave and come back later in the same day. 

Porter and Jack

So they came back around 5pm and had pizza and pop for dinner. We sang the birthday song and ate donuts and ice cream and Jack opened half of his presents. The rest we saved for the next day to open with the family and grandparents. 

He lit his own candles using a match. We haven't used matches for that in a long time.

Nikki picked out this Pac Man shirt for him. Alice got him to fidget spinner that's sitting on the table.

A comfy folding chair to sit and read or watch movies in or play video games in.

A light projector just like what Nikki got for her birthday.

Afterwards the boys played more video games in our office while the adults visited. The adults later watched a Marvel movie on Disney Plus called Shang Chi. It was kind of good. I don't know why they think they need to have bad language in movies to think it will make it better though. 

On Sunday we had grandparents come over at 5pm. It was nice to have it a little earlier than usual, except we did cut it close with getting our dinner eaten right before they showed up. We had some extra donuts leftover from his party the previous day so we lit up another donut. The first time he had 13 regular candles and the second time we did number candles. 

He got the new Lion King movie and some money from Gma Vernie and Gpa Tony.

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He got a 12 in 1 tool with a sheath and I think also some money from the Butterfield grandparents.

We gave him this wooden marble run that he can build and a case of his favorite soda pop.

Nikki also picked out this shirt for him.

My in laws left after we ate dessert and then the remaining adults played a round of the card game Golf. 

Cocoa hopped up in Grandma's lap. 

While we played Golf, Jack started building his marble run.

The next day he spent all evening working on the marble run. I think we did good. He loves it!

At one point Curtis had to jump in and help. They had to tear it apart and redo it to fix some things. 

It was a good birthday and once I finally figured out what to get him everything else went pretty smoothly. And he's to the age now where the friends' party is not a big thing. It's just a hang out with friends, nice and simple.