John's feast...

This is our fifth son, John. He is 14 and a bundle of incorrigible creativity. You know those movies where some precocious kid is constantly inventing these amazing contraptions? That's John. Full of confidence. Of course, things don't always turn out the way he plans, but he is never discouraged by past failures- just takes it in stride and tries again. I am certain that his mind never, ever rests. Sometimes I get a little freaked out by his inventions and we have to reign him back in (the blow darts come to mind.) He is happy and smiling 99% of the time. He has big dreams and big plans and with his winning attitude, I just can't imagine him not attaining them. Oh, I just love him to pieces.

His feast was awesome. No, really. It had the theme of "Awesome." He even wrote that word in duct tape across a table runner. He found every extra strand of twinkle lights he could find and strung them up all over the ceiling. Swags everywhere. He has a great sense of humor and pretended that his gift to the other children were little coupons. "Free Hug" was written on them, but for his older brothers, it was "Free Handshake" and "Free Wave." They all got a kick out of that. The real gifts were whistles for the girls and a dinasaur for Abe. The older brothers got whoopie cushions and something called Flarp- which I am sure if you use your imagination, you can figure out what it does. Bill read about 20 verses stating that our God is an awesome God. He'd point to a different child each time that the word "awesome' came up and they would say it for him. John served coffee drinks- containing icecream, topped with whipped cream and chocolate syrup and caramel- with his appetizer of jerky, honey roasted peanuts, and dried pineapple. His main course he changed at the last minute to please his sibling. Fetticine alfredo with garlic bread. They each got their own bottle of root beer. John had a sundae bar for dessert. Paul said, "John, you have no idea how happy you have made me!" It was unanimous.