Happy 17th Birthday, Oliver Joel!

Oliver's birthday is always a time for great reflection and thanksgiving in our household and this 17th birthday was no exception!  The evening before the big day, our Wellsville Eagles played in the football sub-state game, which Calvin was able to be home for, which was awesome.  After the game, we had all of the snacks prepared for our movie-watching tradition.

Ty was able to join us, and Oliver had picked out several movies at the library after school.

As it turned out, the first movie was almost 3 hours long, and since we didn't start it until after 10:00, "Interstellar" ended up being the only movie we watched this time.  But it was a very interesting movie!

We did have to take a break from the movie at midnight to toast our new 17-year-old boy!

On his birthday morning, we did the usual muffins and kid wine.  Yay for Calvin being home to celebrate with us!

Singing Happy Birthday and blowing out that candle (he only wanted one)!

His gifts consisted of boring, yet necessary, clothes.  He got lots of new socks, a new belt, a nice jacket, sweatpants and a sweatshirt.  I think he was okay with his boring gifts.

That evening at Grandma and Grandpa's anniversary party, we had his real birthday cake.  We went with a "Viva Las Oliver" + KU Jayhawks theme since he'd be leaving for the KU/Duke game in Vegas a couple days later.

I love this boy SO MUCH and I'm so, so thankful to be his momma.  What a gift he is! Happy, happy birthday to my Oliver Joel!