Happy Birthday Austin

Austin turned 14 on March 7th which means the REAL count down to driver's ed and the day he gets his license is on. At least for him... That is all he talks about! He can not wait till next school year when he gets to take the classroom portion of driver's ed the 4th quarter of his freshman year. (They certainly do things differently than when I was in school!). He's actually been counting down for several years already, but he has amped it up quite a bit lately--picking out what he wants his first car to be, what he wants on his license plates, and on and on and on and on! UGH!!

Austin, Tanner, and Jerrod

The older Austin gets, the harder he is to buy gifts for (I'm not sure if this means he's incredibly spoiled and doesn't need anything or what), but the last couple of years all he's wanted for his birthday is to be able to pick out whatever he wants. So we declared the 7th "All-About-Austin" Day and took him shopping for whatever he wanted. He never goes too crazy, and he got just what he wanted. We kind of kept things low-key after that because we've had enough of the all-out, crazy birthday celebrations. He had a couple friends stay over and they joined us at our family lunch (for 20!) the next day in celebration of his birthday. (Yes, lunch for 20 may not be considered 'low-key' to some people, but technically for our families it is because we had several people missing.)

Austin has become a huge fan of Tapout and UFC fighting (not something I will ever understand!). This was one of his favorite shirts he got for his birthday.