Sweet 16

 Caitlyn turned 16. Happy Birthday Caitlyn!

Caitlyn only had school for a couple of hours online today. Grandpa Terry and Marian came for her birthday luncheon. We had to wait until Christian was done with his classes at 12:30 though.

She chose skillet potatoes for breakfast and carne asada fries for lunch. She went with a carrot cake this year.

We had lunch and opened presents. She got a very generous Amazon gift card from Grandpa.

A strange selection of gifts from Marian.

We got her some camera accessories that she has been heavily hinting at. 

Plus a little something for Grandpa's birthday as well. His birthday is about a week before Caitlyn's.

Afterwards, Christian took his dad home because he was leaving his Trooper here again for more repairs. This time Christian is replacing his entire air conditioning system. 

Marian took us out for Boba. We tried to get her to think of something else she wanted to do but she couldn't think of anything so we returned home again. We chatted for a while and then Caitlyn decided that she wanted to go out for a walk to try out her new zoom lens. Marian decided to head home but we ended up chatting in the driveway some more until there was no light left for poor Caitlyn to take pictures.

Emily tried to get a hold of Caitlyn several times to wish her a Happy Birthday but they kept missing each other. She finally got a hold of her late that evening before bed. Before Emily left for school, she made a duvet for Caitlyn's weighted blanket that we got her for Christmas out of a sheet. She also got this cute candy making kit for her.

I think it was overall more fun and cute than tasty. The "salmon roe" was super neat though and quite tasty. It was the strangest thing watching them being made and having them pop in your mouth.

She was supposed to get chicken flautas for dinner but nobody was hungry still as our lunch was to filling. She will have to wait for another night soon to get it.