Spencer turns E-L-E-V-E-N !!!!

Wow, I'm really getting old.  I have an eleven year-old now!  On Spencer's birthday, his grandparents came over to help him celebrate.  I never thought it would happen, but my Mom played some Wii!  What a hip granny!  She's over 60 and she's got mad skills!  Seriously it was so fun to watch my own Mom play video games.

Spencer LOVES Transformers and everything about them.  So, this is his cake....

I'm definitely not skilled enough to make a cake in the shape of a Transformer...I think I tried last year and failed MISERABLY; so this year I got smart and printed some pictures to stick to the cake.  Spencer loved it!

So what's the best gift for an eleven year old?  Yep, you guessed it.  Cold, hard CASH.  The kid was beaming ear to ear after opening card after card filled with the green stuff!  Thank you Grandma's and Grandpa's for the mulah!  You sure made Spencer smile!!

Every other year, we allow the kids to have a friend party.  This was the year.  Since eleven year-olds are too cool for party games, it was a pizza and movie night...here's the invite:

Of course it was a Transformer's theme.  Pizza and the viewing of Transformers 2.  (the edited ClearPlay version of course!)

I was beginning to wonder what I had got myself into.  Fifteen eleven year-old boys pretending to be Transformers...wow.

I thought I was being a pretty cool Mom because I took the boys pictures as they arrived at the party.  Then while they watched the movie I edited their pictures to be in a Transformer's scene, then emailed the images to the printer and went and picked them up so they could take home their picture that night.  I thought it was cool anyway.

The boys were actually really well behaved.  I was so glad.  They all enjoyed the movie.  It was so great!

Thank you parents of eleven year-old boys for teaching them manners!  THANK YOU!  They were all so great!

All in all Spencer had a SUPER great birthday.  Still can't believe my baby is eleven, but I'm actually liking the fact that I can have a decent conversation with him.  Love you Spencer!  Happy Birthday!