Emery's "party"

Since Emery is a teenager now, and practically all grown up, we opted not to have a party for him this year.  Instead, he decided to invite a bunch of friends to come over and just "hang out."  Somehow, we ended up doing this ...

with them ...

Hmmm.  Sort of sounds like a party to me.  :)

(And, yes, girls came!)

After bowling, we had to stop at the dollar store to pick up a few items.  The receipt is pretty self-explanatory ...

24 rolls of toilet paper, 6 cans of silly string, and 2 air horns.  They "decorated" a neighbor's yard very nicely, then enjoyed blaring the air horns.  (And, thankfully, unlike the last time they tried to TP somebody, no policemen showed up this time!  We certainly don't want another "notation" on my son's police record!)

And, a "party" wouldn't be complete without an injury, so Emery took care of that.  Apparently, he was running away from the silly string war and went down hard in the street.  Ouch.  He should have had three stitches on his knee, but since we couldn't really take him to the Dr. in the middle of all the festivities, we waited until the next day to take him in, and they just glued it back together!