Nate's 14th Birthday

 Nate turned 14.  He opted not to have a party, but we made him a very special German Sweet Chocolate three layer cake and frosted it.

He got a ghillie suit so he could hide in the bushes and scare us.  Later in the summer, one evening when we were coming home, we walked past the bushes and he jumped out and scared us!  He also used it to hide in the bushes to scare kids at Halloween!

Nate is a hard worker.  He is also very helpful.  He will notice things that need doing and do them to be helpful. He is always helpful in the kitchen.  If I ask him to cook something, he is more that willing to cook it.  He often strays from recipes adding his own seasoning or making it how he feels it would taste better, and most of the time it does, but we  do appreciate his efforts.  He likes to think about things and come up with solutions to them. He loves to fight-wrestle mostly, but punching is fun for him too.  He likes to learn about new things and is constantly watching videos and reading things that are new and interesting to him.  He likes biology and science and physics and can fix things without a lot of directions because it is just intuitive to him how to fix it. He loves to work with his dad and help his dad.  He loves one on one attention with anyone.  He is doing great in school and learning new things all the time. He is growing so fast, some months it is as much as an inch, most months it is at least half an inch.  We are glad he is part of our lives!