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22!

On Thursday, my second son turned 22!  He was gone on his mission to Latvia for the last two birthdays but this year we got to have him over for his birthday dinner.  He wanted beef stroganoff and "Too Much Chocolate" cake for dessert.  He blew all his candles out in one blow.  The picture is a bit hazy thanks to all that smoke.



He just finished a semester at BYU and is majoring in computer engineering.  We actually didn't have his birthday dinner on Thursday because he went "trumpet caroling" on that night.  They rang our doorbell about 8pm and 10 trumpet players stood on our lawn and played a couple of Christmas carols.  It was pretty cool.  I wish I could share a picture of that but it was too dark outside and the picture doesn't show anything.

We gave him his birthday presents back in August--it's just so much easier on me when we do birthday presents at a different time than Christmas--and he likes his presents being a little more spread out too.

He is staying at our house for the next two weeks over Christmas and we look forward to seeing him around a bit more.




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