The day has arrived that I can say, "I have a teenager." I don't feel like I should be old enough to say that at the ripe old age of 34, but alas it is true.
On Saturday, March 23, Gabe and four of his friends (Kyler, Porter, Noah, and Adrian) plus Caleb all went and did an "Escape Room" here in Rexburg. This was something that Josh and I had done with two other couples about a year ago, so we knew it wasn't scary in any way. It basically just involved being "locked" into a little room with some clues and they had to try and figure out all the clues to get out.
The theme of the room was "prison break" so the story behind it was that they were breaking out of a jail cell. The room is equipped with cameras and microphones so there's someone that sits in a separate little room and monitors them the whole time. At one point they were totally stumped and had to yell out "we need a hint!" and then the voice comes over the loud speaker and says something like, "Look again at the green rag that you found in the bed... there's something on that rag you need to look closer at."
It was pretty funny to try and watch this group of 11-13 year old boys try and figure all these things out. They did pretty good! But after the hour was up, they weren't QUITE out of the room. They got to the final step though and with probably another 15 minutes they would have bee free. When we did the room with our group of friends, we were out in 45 minutes and only one hint, which the workers said was really impressive (maybe they tell everyone that. lol)
So they did that from about 2:45-4:00 and then we came back to our house for about another hour and did cake and ice cream and they played basketball in the driveway for a little bit. There was only one boy that didn't live in our neighborhood, so they boys mostly just walked back home and then when our family was ready to go to dinner we took Adrian home on the way.
We ate dinner at Freddy's and then came home and watched a movie called "Rampage" that we had rented. It was a pretty laid back birthday! Nothing compared to Avery's big birthday parties! Gabe is also VERY hard to buy for. My mom sent him a check with a card, my dad sent him an Amazon gift card, and grandparents also sent money. He bought one thing with the gift card (a Captain Marvel character to use for the XBOX game) and had me just deposit the rest in the bank because, "there's nothing he really needs." Pretty crazy if you ask me. Caleb is the exact opposites! haha I think he has a list prepared of everything he wants for his birthday in June.
On Friday, the day before his birthday, I took Gabe to Idaho Falls with me shopping and he did pick out one shirt, a phone charger (for the "phone" we gave him as a hand me down that he just uses for games), socks, and a bag of Lindt chocolates (not a bad choice!) So he's pretty low-key in they things he wants/asks for. The number one thing that he wanted (which he told us over and over again for the past three years) was his own room. We always said, "When you're a teenager," so here it was... a couple weeks before his 13th birthday, and he's like, "so, when's Caleb moving out?" But Caleb wasn't as excited. Caleb jokingly said, "For my birthday in June, I'm going to ask to share rooms again." HAHA Nope! I spent too much time on that project!
So here are some pictures of Gabe's birthday party at the escape room with his friends!
Also, quick funny story... Gabe never tells me anything about girls he likes or if he has a "girlfriend" but when he was blowing out his birthday candles, there was one that didn't go out and I jokingly said, "One girlfriend!!" and he said, "I guess I'll just leave that right there then...." Wait.... was he just acknowledging that he has a GIRLFRIEND?! Hm....
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