We had a big birthday around here. Nate turned 12! We couldn't celebrate on his actual birthday because he had football so we did it the next day. Nate likes what he likes so we had his favorite cinnamon rolls, roast beef, and pie for dessert. He got some fun things:
This one cracks me up:
He also got a slingshot that he's been having a lot of fun with since then. I took this screenshot from a video of him blowing his candles out:
A couple of days later on Sunday we finally got to give him his birthday wish of a family game of football in the backyard. It got a bit heated and competitive (in typical our family fashion) but Lizzie, Nate and I just barely pulled out the win. It was pretty fun.
This was a big year for Nate with receiving the priesthood and being able to go to the temple, surviving school during Covid, and just barely starting middle school here in Jerome and playing football. Unfortunately, since he started a bit late and then got Covid, he hasn't gotten much playing time but he finally did just after his birthday on defense and did great. Nate also started playing the saxophone this past year and has gotten really good just in one year. He's taking band at the middle school and although he's frustrated to be playing easy songs I think he enjoys it.
Nate is the best. He's athletic and loves all things sports. I'm excited for him to have more opportunities to play different sports here in Jerome. While I think he liked his after school flag football class in Clovis, playing in masks in the heat was not ideal, and we were sad he missed a year and a half of baseball after it was canceled during Covid. He's super smart and just did really well on the gifted and talented test here. Academic things tend to come pretty easily for him. He's also pretty mechanically minded and did a great job helping to set up our furniture here at our new house. He's also taken on the role of mowing our lawn o the riding mower and does a great job with that. He's also gotten more into reading in the past year and read all of the Percy Jackson books and the Hunger Games books. He's also become quite the chef and can make really good artisan bread and crispy hashbrowns. He also had a scary incident this year where he was jumping onto our pull up bar and ended up falling and hitting his head on the tile floor. He was acting weird and we were so worried so we took him in to the ER. There ended up being a huge wait (thanks, Covid) and so he was barely looked over and given a pill to stop the nausea he was feeling and then we were waiting for a CT scan. We waited there in the middle of the night with him sleeping on me off and on for a couple hours and finally decided to go home since he was doing much better. He was fine after that, too, just had some lingering headaches for a bit. That was the first concussion we experienced in our family.
Nate adds so much to our family we couldn't imagine life without him. We love you, Nate!
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