I HAVE A 12 YEAR OLD????

 It is hard to believe that it has been 12 years.  On one hand these past 12 years have gone by so fast but on the other hand I just can't believe that it has been that long ago that I became a Mommy!  What an incredible young man my son is growing up to be.  He is so handsome, smart, funny, dorky, silly, tall...yes very tall!  He is taller than me, I know this doesn't sound tall since I am only a towering 5'3 but when your child grows taller than you, it seems REALLY tall.  

Austin has to share his Birthday month with 2 younger siblings, Sebastian and Abby.  This year we had a joint family party for Abby and Austin since their birthdays are only a week apart.

This was the first extended family birthday party he has had in years, I think since he was 4 or 5.  So it was really fun for him to celebrate with cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great grandparents, and of course siblings and Mom & Dad.

On his actual Birthday he was with his other side of the family, the Conrad's.  His Dad brought him home that evening.  Vinnie was out of town so I made plans to take Austin out to dinner,  Grandma was going to come over and watch the little kiddos but it snowed and snowed and snowed that night, the roads were not safe for travel.  Austin and I ordered some pizza and then I handed him his birthday gift from us (Mom & Dad).....an iPod!!  He was so excited, this will have been his 3rd iPod in a year.  His first one froze so we sent it in and they sent him a new one, the 2nd one he dropped in the toilet and it never worked after that and since water is not covered under the warranty he was out of luck. So now, 6 months later he has a new one.  The upside of this is the iPod's are much better now and have more features than before.  He had a great 12th Birthday!  It didn't end there, the snow storm had stopped by the next day so Grandma came over and watched the little ones and Austin and I went to Texas Roadhouse for his Birthday dinner.

Happy 12th Birthday Austin!