Another Year Older

Cooper is now one year away from adulthood. He turned seventeen! His birthday dinner request was Red Robin, so we obliged.

After dinner came gift opening. Cooper recently joined the track team at school and his afternoons are much busier than they used to be. It was well after Topher's bedtime when we got home from dinner, so Cooper kindly agreed to push his cake to the next day.

Also, I had run out of time to make his cake on his actual birthday. That probably influenced his decision to move that part of the celebration.

He had asked for an ice cream cake or a chocolate cake. How about a chocolate (and vanilla) ice cream cake?! I didn't make this, but I did buy it. That counts at least a little.

That was a lot of candles for what turned out to be a surprisingly small cake.

It's been a while since we had a birthday interview...

FAVORITE FOOD: sushi

FAVORITE ANIMAL: cheetah

FAVORITE CANDY: Twix

FAVORITE BOOK: The Book of Mormon

FAVORITE COLORS: blue and teal

FAVORITE SHOWS: Stranger Things

FAVORITE MOVIE: Spiderman: Across the Spider-verse

FAVORITE SONG: I can't pick.

FAVORITE BOARD GAME: Monopoly

FAVORITE CARD GAME: Uno

FAVORITE VIDEO GAME: Minecraft

FAVORITE THING TO DO: Be outside, having fun.

FAVORITE MEMORY FROM BEING 16: Going to High Adventure. (Young Men summer camp)

FAVORITE PLACE: The Temple

FAVORITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL: music classes (concert choir and guitar)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP: Either an engineer or I want to work in sales and marketing.