Happy 14th Birthday, Roen...

Roen's birthday always falls in such a busy time of year. End of the year festivities are in full throttle, along with spring golf, our anniversary, and Mother's Day. And so, I try to make it shine brighter than the anything else, no matter what we have going on! 

This year, he came straight home from school and had to throw on his 'nice' clothes and head back up to school to serve at the Sports Banquet. With me being Booster Club, I also had to be up there early to help host. But, I snuck away from the daytime banquet decorating to make sure my boy had his dirt cake waiting for him when he got home! We were able to sneak in singing him Happy Birthday and making a wish to bring in #14.

We got to end his special day staying up super late, finishing a project due the next day, haha!

But, we survived and celebrated the best we could- it wasn't perfect, but that smile.... that was the best part of the whole day!

Roen at 14...

Roen is as much the leader of the pack as he is a follower! He probably isn't going to be the ring leader of questionable decisions, but he may stick around and giggle before he decides to walk away. 

He loves new clothes, shoes, hair products, cologne, jewelry, bags... you get the idea!

Give him all the steak, Julio's hot sauce, WingStop, Braum's cheeseburgers, cookies-n-cream milkshakes, pretzel sticks, mac-n-cheese, brownies, gummy bears, sour patch watermelons, and Twix, because he will eat it all up!

This boy can talk some golf with you! He is an awesome little coach and can tell you how to fix your swing, advise you on clubs and can help you with your golf attire all at the same time!

He likes to play his music in the car, never leaves the house without being 100% put together and almost always has a buddy by his side. 

9 times out of 10 Roen doesn't know what happened, who was there, or what was said. He lives on another planet and has a serious case of living under the same rock I do. He loves to just do a little shrug of his shoulders and giggle in response to his daily cluelessness. 

These days Roen doesn't hide a single feeling and is about as stubborn as the day is long. Getting him to do ANYTHING he doesn't want, warrants a huff, a puff and an overall pitiful attitude. 

In many ways, Roen is the life of everyone's party. You can always count him in for the going, doing and fun-having. He keeps the friend rotation at our house constant and one friend almost always leads to multiple. The more will always be merrier in his book and why let rain ruin the parade when you can just throw on some rain boots!

Roen is adventure, he is passion and he is quick-wit! He is 90 to nothing from sunup to sundown, and most definitely the most vibrant color of our crayon box!

I love you big, Roen!!!