Nathan's Birthday

Today is Nathan's 16th birthday. It has been a full day. We had promised Nathan that he could go and get his permanent license today. The lines at the DMV are always really long. It takes 20 minutes to drive out there. I got off at 3:00 and picked him up. He filled out the paperwork and then we waited. There were several others that were getting their permanent license too. We finally got up to the counter and paid. They took his picture and printed off a paper copy. They don't give out the hard copies there anymore. They send them in the mail in about two weeks. We were not done until about 4:30. I was glad we had gone early.

From the DMV we went to the insurance agent. They had to get his license number and get info from him. Eye opening experience for him to see how much it was going to cost. That was with Several discounts that they applied.

Next we went to Instacare. We waited a while for the doctor to look at his foot. He didn't x-ray it, but didn't think it was broken. He thinks he bruised the planter facia muscle. Speaking from experience that is really painful. The doctor gave him a stiff boot and a PE excuse for the week.

We finally got home about 6:00. I made a quick dinner and it was present time. He had asked for a black silk tie for church that wasn't a clip on, and a real leather wallet.

We couldn't give CJ an iPod and not give Nathan one too. Of course he had to have an iTunes card to go with it. He was really excited about everything. The only problem was our modem died yesterday and he couldn't set anything up.

Nathan wanted strawberry cheesecake for his birthday cake. I found a huge one at Costco for $13, which W's cheaper than I could buy the ingredients for. He and Chris were in cheesecake heaven.