Preston's 18th birthday

Tuesday, July 6, we all gathered in our usual places to celebrate Preston's 18th birthday. Now Garth and I can relax a little - all our children are considered adults and we aren't legally responsible for anything stupid they may do! Actually, I was pretty sad, a whole chapter of my life in raising children has come to a close.



At any rate we helped Preston celebrate becoming an adult by having him sit in the present opening spot.

As usual, Preston was very grateful for anything he is given and he loved the movies, book, swimsuit, magazine subscription, Zune passes and especially the snow gloves. Yes, we know it is July but the kid has snowboarding on his mind all year round.

After present opening, we moved into the kitchen for the blowing of the candles and the singing of "Happy Birthday". Preston is not a big cake eater so Raquel made dessert crepes and we had to strategically place the candles in the crepe to keep them upright. In case you don't understand our unique numbering system for candles, the 1 represents 10 and then you have to add the 6 + 2 to get 8 to give you 18. We really don't see any reason to actually buy the numbers of someones age you just improvise with what you have from leftover candles from birthdays in the past.

Preston was able to blow out all three candles in one breath and we were so proud of him.

We also received his AP grades this month and had more reason to be proud of him and all the work he did in high school that lead to a scholarship to ASU for next year. But we are especially proud of the young man he is becoming - hard working, responsible, fun, dependable, caring and strong. We love you Preston!!!