william's 14th birthday

w celebrated his birthday recently. we did a lot of fun things to celebrate. first, we had his friend party at a nickel arcade. as part of that we had pizza, pop, and lots of arcade games. here we have (on the left and then on the right and from front to back): hibiki, nathan, neal, lilly, sierra, b, eli, kyle, and w. 

the next day, we had our family party with mom; ross, cyleste, leah, corbin, and paige; and whitney, matt, kirsten, and reagan. 

 w opening a gift with grandma.

 w with a neat soccer ball electronic game thing that he got as a present. i can't really explain it, but it's fun.

 then on his actual bday, he got more presents and some good food! here he is opening the cool wolf card emily gave him.

 w getting a check and letter from grandma and grandpa.

 a cool buckskin pouch!

 bird call sounds on tape.

for dinner, we had pumelo in the foreground and taco casserole in the background.

 there's the taco casserole up close.

 and for dessert we had terang bulan. we weren't sure how it would turn out, but it was delicious! 

 and it had all of our favorite indonesian terang bulan ingredients--keju (cheese), kacang (peanuts), coklat, and susu (sweet and condensed milk). so good.