Friday Favorites: The Week We Celebrated Alec Turning 15

We had another great week. By Thursday morning I was feeling so good with all that we had accomplished. I love that kind of week! Alec came home from school Friday with a whole stack of baked goods-- 2 donuts, a few pieces of puff pastry, a slice of carrot cake... I just had to sample each one! While he had been at school Evan, Ian and I got a huge stack of schoolwork done and then cleaned the downstairs. Ian headed off to work on his four wheeler for the afternoon; every now and then I'm just struck by how weird it feels to have a nearly adult son that can just drive where he wants and works with all sorts of tools by himself! We ended our night with some unexpected take out. The Black Dog is one of our favorite restaurants and we had a delicious meal in front of the TV watching The Goldbergs and the latest Last Man Standing. Ian headed off to work on Saturday and the younger two boys went out with my mother in law for breakfast. I worked on making a card for Alec's