Alex's Birthday

Yuumy Cupcakes!

I am not very good at posting the pictures, so bear with me on that. This past weekend Alex turned 12.........hard to believe he is that old already! And that makes me even older (yikes). We had the family over to our house Saturday night for a little get together and here are some pictures from then. The next day, Sunday, Alex had a friend party at the bowling alley in Byron. For Christmas, Alex had gotten a bowling ball and this was only the 4th time he had used it. Some of his friends were using it as well and when one of them threw the ball down and it hit the pins, the ball broke!!!!! The guy working at the bowling alley had to climb in by the pins to get the pieces. It broke in to 3 bigger sized pieces. Noone had ever seen that happen before. Crazy!!!!!

After the bowling we went to an Owatonna Express Jr Hockey game. It is like the Ice Hawks (if anyone is familiar with them) except a lot cleaner hockey. They have a game that you can play between 2nd and 3rd period. You buy a puck and then throw it on the ice towards the 3 buckets they have out there. The 3 closest pucks win some kind of gift certificate. They also have an on-going competition to get a puck INSIDE one of the buckets. The jackpot grows each game until someone gets it. They said noone had gotten it yet this year. Well.............not anymore! As I was helping Jordyn throw her pucks, Alex is jumping up and down telling us that his went in. Me, being the nice mom, didn't believe him at first. But, it did.........Happy Birthday Alex! He decided to save the money and put it away for next summer.

Alex was selected to go to Fort AP Hill in Virginia next summer to be with close to 42,000 other Boy Scouts at the National Jamboree. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for him to be gone for almost 3 weeks. There are 36 kids from all over SE MN that will board a bus and go out East. On the way, they will stop and be tourists! So, Alex has been fundraising and trying to earn extra money to pay for his trip.

I will post some more pictures of the bowling and hockey game. Hope everyone has enjoyed this nice weather. Hopefully this afternoon is nice, too. Jordyn has been wanting to get her bike out, so Shawn is going to take off the training wheels while she is at daycare today and they are going to see how that goes this afternoon. I will see if they are still trying the 2-wheel thing when I get home and get some pictures of it.