Shaw is 11 years old!

We hired a mobile video arcade to come to our house for Shaw's 11th birthday.  

If you have one of these pull up at your house, you are the coolest kid in the neighborhood.  The only thing that could have made it cooler is if they could have picked him up from school in that. 

Lesa made a candy cake with all of Shaw's favorite candies.  The picture doesn't do it any justice but it's a feat of engineering! 

 Here's Shaw and several of his mates in the game truck. 

Lesa is giving instructions on what will be a pinata style distribution of the cake.  We intented for everybody to take turns grabbing a couple of packages of candy from the cake in an orderly fashion but it became a free-for-all with some hurt feelers and everything.  Everybody got free candy in the end but some got more than others and it damaged the sense that all is right with the universe...

Shaw opened a few gifts aftereverybody had a slice of pizza and went home.  He got about $50 in cash and gift cards!  SCORE!  Happy 11th Birthday to Shaw.