Eighteen

My Noah turned EIGHTEEN on Friday. Eighteen.

Since he had class and his brothers did also (plus karate), we ended up celebrating yesterday instead...picked him up while brothers were at karate, breakfast and then home to fill out our ballots* before going back to pick up boys, family games at home for the afternoon, dinner out, and more games at home before taking Noah back to campus. Just a nice quiet day. :) 

(*Yes. Noah registered to vote on Friday. Because he wasn't able to register until so close to election day, though, he wasn't eligible for a mail in ballot this time around and will need to go to a polling place on Tuesday. Nathan and I held onto our own mail in ballots and filled them out with Noah, so that he could ask any questions if he wanted and because we like to discuss the candidates and issues as we each make our choices.)

We also took our traditional birthday pictures. It was quite windy and chilly so we weren't outside long. And I realized that that was unusual for us because almost all of the other birthday pictures we've taken of Noah have been lovely weather, even though it's November. Technically, though, if we'd taken the pictures on his actual birthday, the weather would have been sunny and nice. 

In any case, here are the shots over time since he became a teenager...

Is it just me or does it seem like Noah might be gaining on Nathan? :)

And I managed just this one shot of the birthday boy alone:

I'm realizing this may have been the last year I get shots like these, but I'll be happy about it...because at least I got these. :) Thankful that my boy is just down the road at college and that he still enjoys coming home and spending time with all of us. He appears to be doing just fine at CSU, registered a couple weeks ago for his spring classes and seems to be doing his laundry, lol. Happy.