Twenty!

My Asher turned 20 today! Fortunately, he doesn't work on Fridays and Nathan had the day off for the long weekend. So. We had a quiet morning then I tried to take some pictures...

(he used to be more cooperative, lol)...and I got one with all three brothers...

...and then we went to brunch at The Original Pancake House since Asher's favorite foods tends to be breakfast foods. It was yummy and, while we were there, one of Asher's teachers from high school came over to our table. She'd seen Asher and had to come say hi because (as she said, herself) he was one of her favorite students. (Entertainingly, she also had Micah in her classes and did acknowledge that she liked him, too, lol.)

Then we headed home and I remembered to get a picture with the birthday boy...

He opened his gifts (the bigger items from brothers and us were flight simulator related...software and the hardware to accompany it), and we had some downtime getting individual things done before coming back together to watch the last two episodes of Stranger Things. We're doing dinner momentarily and then will finish this season of Stranger Things. 

Before I get called away for that...here's my Asher over the last 20 years (pictures are from each year on or around his birthday)...

As I've mentioned already, he's going to take a year off from UNO and stay here and pursue his private pilot license and get a little more life under his belt as he contemplates the future. He's learning all sorts of things about kids in his summer job teaching ninja classes and summer camp. (At the moment, 5-8 year olds are not his favorite age group, lol.) He's happy to be back at Karate West's demo team now that he's in town again. He lets me hug him still, is fairly musical (Noah got him a strange Legends of Zelda instrument for his birthday and he's already learning songs on it), and still has a sweet tooth (Micah got him some Swedish Fish, which was a hit). That's my Asher. 

And now back to our plan for the day...not overly exciting but happily together. :)