Saturday, April 30, 2011

Welcome To Adulthood

We hit a big milestone in the Leingang family this week! There are now THREE ADULTS living in the house! I am not sure how or when this happened, but Zack is now 18 years old!!!

We celebrated his big day by doing school and chores, going to kung fu, opening presents and eating out at the Mongolian grill! YUM!!!

birthday party 01 Guitar Praise for the PC

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Airman’s Bible

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A chin-up bar (now that he’s an old man, he’s gonna have to start working out) LOL

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A phone of his very own!

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He wasn’t quite sure what it was at first, but every man needs to fill out their Selective Service form. :o)

Then on Friday after co-op, we had Zack and Hobo’s (Elijah) birthday party. Thankfully God held off the rain so we could have the picnic in the park after all!

The kids (and Chris) all had a BLAST tossing the football, playing Ultimate Frisbee and a bit of soccer! I had fun visiting with my mom friends (oh, and Hobo’s dad)… :o)

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Oh, and we also ate some good food, too! Thanks to everyone who contributed to the potluck supper!

birthday party 15When we were done at the park, we trucked all of the boys to our place for the sleepover. We had 19 boys hanging out at our place! They are 19 of the GREATEST guys ever! We are so blessed to have such super friends!

birthday party 16The pile actually got BIGGER as the evening went on!

One thing I have to say about that much testosterone is that testosterone is loud, smelly and hungry!!! LOL I didn’t get many pictures because I was too busy cooking, watching them have fun, chatting with some of the boys, laughing at YouTube videos, or enjoying my alone time. :o)

birthday party 17birthday party 18They got a lot of good gifts (especially candy)

birthday party 19But every gift exchange HAS to have the duck-tape gift!!!

Happy Birthday Zack! We are so proud of you and the MAN that you have become! May God richly bless you in the upcoming year as you seek to do what He is calling you to!  

1 comment:

Leanne said...

Wow, 18!!! That is truly a milestone! Happy Birthday to Zack from the Gilchrists! Russell turned 16 last month, and we feel that's a milestone too.....he'll be starting his driving course next week!! PRAY for us!!

We have the opposite at our house: a TON of estrogen!! Hmmm....I think I'd rather have tons of estrogen that testosterone!!

Take care and have a great day!!