We started out our morning by having breakfast at our favorite joint, The Antique Kitchen. And it turns out that when you go on your birthday, you get a discount off your meal! It was wonderful.
Then we opened up a few presents and had some alone time together before we headed out to Paw Paw for Sean's party. I had been planning his party for a few weeks, because Sean has never really had a birthday party with his friends before... or at least not that Sean could really remember. And me, being a person who loves to plan fun get-togethers just had to plan something.
We found out on December 15th that Sean was officially hired with Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (in other words he is going to be both a police officer and a fire fighter). We also found out that I got accepted to Western Michigan University for graduate school... it was a very exciting day, and the Lord blessed us greatly.
So back to planning Sean's party. I was able to convince him to have a few other people besides his family there if we celebrated his being hired with the city as well. We were able to have the Szekely, Skinner, Osbon, and Quantz families over to Sean's parents' home, as well as the Ulman family and most of the Koontz family. It was a wonderful celebration of Sean turning a quarter of a century old, and he and Ben being hired with the city.
Sean's party was Chicago Cubs themed since we were unable to make it to a game this summer, and Sean LOVES the Cubs. Katie Koontz made the most delicious cake I have ever had, and it looked like the old kiosk at Wrigley Stadium with a baseball that stuck out as if had been thrown into the cake!
Scott gave a toast to congratulate Sean and Ben for their accomplishments and looking forward to the kick off of an awesome career. Scott said some wonderful things, and gave advice that the boys will hopefully remember.
Happy birthday, Seanie! Hope this coming year will be full of as much love and exciting changes as this previous year has brought!
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