Paul's 17th birthday!!

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Paul is turning 17 this year on July 30, but we celebrated his birthday on Monday (the 28th). We invited Maria, Clark, Rosie, and Will over to have tacos for dinner, then we opened his presents and had ice cream cake. Paul and Josh have been really into fireworks lately, so we did a display of little fireworks on the back porch. Then, once it was dark, we drove way out of town, and did big fireworks like Roman candles and mortars. It was really cool! We had a fun celebration. Paul's favorite bands lately are the Beatles and Pink Floyd, so all his presents were CDs and DVDs of those two groups.



Josh was really sweet and gave Paul one of his fireworks, a Roman candle. This is a picture of Paul holding it:

This is a picture of Paul holding his ice cream cake:


This is a picture of Paul holding one of his Beatles CDs:


This is Paul holding up his Pink Floyd DVD:

Will drew Paul a cute picture for his birthday. This is Paul holding Will and the picture he drew:

This is us eating cake at the table:

Comments

Maria said…
It was good times! Happy Birthday to Paul tomorrow!!
July 29, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Carolyn said…
Happy birthday, Paul! Your hair is getting long, which means it has been awhile since I saw you last! :) I hope you had an awesome day! We've been thinking of you. It looks like quite a fun celebration so far.
July 30, 2008 at 8:23 PM
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