Andrew Turns 12!!!

This amazing young man turned 12.  I can't believe how quickly 12 years has gone by.  Andrew is so creative, inventive, loving, and smart.  I love watching all the creative things he comes up with and his inventions.  This kid is going to do great things in this world.

Andrew's gifts this year included throwing knives, sharping stone, gaming headset, butterfly knife, video games, bamboo sticks, books from his favorite author, and lots of twine and hanging wire.  

He also got nunkucks!  He had us dying laughing trying to use them.  He hit himself so many times and would yell ouch!  I have so many videos of him attempting to use these.  We finally put on youtube how to use them.  Kallie turned out to be a ninja master...who knew!?!?

We started the day off with a delicious breakfast Christopher made.  Andrew's request was his favorite french toast bake.  Of course we had to put our firecracker candles in them!  Andrew, of course, wanted to light his own candles and did so the flame almost singed his eyebrows!  Oh this kid...

Andrew spent his day doing whatever he wanted.  I'm sure it would have been more outside stuff...but today was very rainy so it was lots of video games, the Office, and iPad time.  His birthday....his choice!

He requested chicken pot pie for dinner.

Of course we had to light it up!  Making fun of Andrew's lighting attempt from this morning....

This kid is such a pyro....

You see this match?  He was so proud he re-lit it with the smoke of the extinguished candle.  Ben is very impressed. 

After dinner clean up we decided to surprise Andrew with a little silly string fight.  He didn't get a can....opps...

Then it was time for the pinata!!  We decided to put our new nunchcks to use.....His face kills me....

Everyone was too lazy to get the sleeping mask.....so we used the hammock.  Chris also used the hammock frame to hang the pinata.  It was an interesting choice...but it worked.

Seriously the time it took to put this hammock on we could've gotten the mask 10x over.

Oh these boys are so mean to Kal.  They had her swinging those things around and no pinata hanging.

They were loving it.....

After we broke one of his new nunchucks we decided to get out the cricket bat.  The poor things died quickly after that.  Poor Nick was so confused....

Cake time!  Kallie made his favorite, Texas sheet cake, with oreos and oreo ice cream.  See the 12?!

And of course....more fire.....

Then the highlight of every birthday....the TREASURE HUNT!!!  This years theme was Show me the Money and he got showed!  I asked him if he wanted me to put it in his bank account and he told me he really loves to just have lots of money in his wallet.  15 minutes later he is frantically looking around the house.....for his money.  ugh.

Happy Birthday Andrew!!!!