What a Day!

Before I go back I must speak about today.  Michael received the priesthood today.  I can not believe my little boy is 12 years old.  It's so crazy.  I couldn't be more proud.  Michael is an amazing young man.  Life has not been very easy for him lately, but he is doing a great job.  Michael had family surrounding him, Mark was even able to come up.  It was a very emotional moment.  I don't know if there was a dry eye.  The spirit was very strong.  The best part was seeing Michael pass the sacrament.  Last night he was so cute, he said "Mom I don't want to pass the sacrament tomorrow.  I'm not ready."   But after his ordination he saw some of his friends from the other ward, they where so cool they asked Michael, do you know what number you are, and talking about how you pass the sacrament.  He seemed fine once he started to do it.  I asked him after he sat down, "where you nervous?"  He said no.  I'm sure he was a little more than he'll admit.

Michael has had a week long birthday celebration.  He had his birthday and we celebrated with Mark's parents for some yummy taco's.  He was really excited to get Settlers of Cantan from them, that is his new favorite game.   After we came home and I gave him my presents and my parents gave him theirs.

Friday was a basketball game and off to his first scout camp.  After he got home he took off with Mark's Mom to go get his Dad at the airport.  Later he picked up his friends for pizza and than off to Boondocks.  Mark and I took the kids up there.  The boys seemed to have a lot of fun.  They froze riding the go-karts out in the cold.  They had a blast playing laser tag.  I mainly sat around visiting with Mark and reading my book.  It was fun to see him "hanging out" with his friends.  They had a lot of fun.   He has some great friends.

Than today, he was ordained a Deacon and after church we had my family over to celebrate his birthday and he got a couple more presents, blew out another birthday cake.  I forgot to mention that Diane has sparkler candles on his cake and my parents had bought trick candles too. So that was fun.

Michael is such a cutie.  He really is, I love his sweet shy smile, when you give him a compliment.  He really was happy this week.  It's hard to believe it was only 12 years ago that I brought home this 8 lbs and 10 once baby!  Did I mention he was 22 1/4 inches long.  He keeps asking why is he so short if he was so long when he was born?  Who knows.  How grateful I am to have this young man in my life.  He brings me a lot of joy.  He is so sweet to give me hugs when I am sad, pat me on the back and say, "it's okay mom."