Evan's 11th Birthday

Evan's 11th Birthday Interview:

1.  Who is your favorite person in the whole world?
My brother Brody.

2.  What is your favorite color?
Green

3.  What's your favorite television show?
"How to train your dragon"

4.  What's your favorite outfit?
My sailboat shirt (the one he is wearing in the picture above so that is probably why he wrote that...haha!)

5.  What sport do you like best? 
Soccer

6.  What song do you love?
"Where you are" by Hillsong Young & Free from church camp
  
7.  What's your favorite cereal?
Cinnamon Toast Crunch

8.  Who is your best friend?
Lee

9.  What do you want to be when you grow up?
An Engineer

10.  What is your favorite book?
Percy Jackson

11.  What are you really good at?
Math
Mommy will add with bragging rights that he has also continued to prove that he is an excellent academician and an outstanding reader.  His reading Lexile scores have continued to be off the school age level charts above those of average 12th graders, and he scored in the high 98th and 99th percentiles in his first Georgia Milestones test scores which included an intensive writing test.  He is an honor roll student although no school he has attended to date gives awards for that, and he will be entering middle school continuing in the advanced content curriculum.  

12.  Where do you wish you could go on vacation?
Italy

13.  What is your best memory?
The day my brother Mattox was born.

14.  What would you buy if you had $1000? 
A PS4

15.  What vegetable do you hate the most?
The ones I haven't eaten.  (At least he didn't say lettuce again.) 

16.  What food do you like best?
Steak

17.  What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Mint

18.  What do you love most about yourself?
I'm smart.

19.  What do you like to do with your best friends?
Play outside

20.  What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday?
Go to Mexico

This year's birthday celebration was a bit of a milestone celebration.  At 11, he was excited to receive his invitation to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.  Hmmm, do you think he should attend all the way in England or maybe go to Ilvermorny here in the US?  Decisions, decisions. Haha!  Evan also received a special birthday cake from Hagrid who borrowed my kitchen for the task.  That night, our family enjoyed dinner out at one of our favorite local seafood restaurants and then came home to eat cake and open presents.  For one final birthday surprise, Grandma came and delivered his big milestone birthday gift...

An owl woke us up fairly early to deliver Evan's Hogwarts letter to his room.  It was complete with tea stained parchment and wax seal.  

When Evan arrived home from school, he found his letter and the cake Hagrid made complete with misspellings. 

After Daddy got home from work, we went out for dinner at one of Evan's favorite places called Fish Tales. 

Daddy was getting extra special love from Mattox. 

Evan was "pretending" to slap his mama because of this spicy seasoning on the table.  Ha!  He knows better.   He loves the big peel and eat shrimp now that he can peel them himself. 

Grayson was trying to hit him. 

The birthday boy with his special cake.  I just hoped there was no beard hair in it.  Haha! 

Blowing out his candles. 

Our big boy is 11! 

Brody couldn't wait to see what was in the present.  It was his very own laser tag set so he and his friends can play together.  

And then Grandma showed up with his first....GUN!  Yep, a real one.  Sigh.  Daddy felt he needed his own shotgun for hunting that would be easier for him to handle.  It still looks really long to me, but it isn't supposed to kick as hard.