Nate the Great



Nate at the State TSA Competition

 Nate kind of flies under the radar around here so maybe he doesn't always get his share of recognition, so here's a post just for him. He turned 14 last month, which is just insane by the way. I mean we are registering for High School!! What!? We are having conversations about colleges and missions and careers and stuff. He wants to be a science fiction author or a video game creator. Maybe he'll be both. He's currently working on a book idea. He is also studying to be a video game creator by playing lots and lots of video games.
For his 14th birthday we went to Red Robbin and had cake and presents of course. He got a model airplane, a rocked and a paintball gun which we will use when we go paint balling (is that how you would say that?) soon. Last week he was ordained to the office of a Teacher in the Priesthood.
He is part of the TSA club at school, which stands for Technology Student Association not Transportation Security Administration. They had their State Competition a couple of weeks ago.They stayed two nights at the Marriott. They didn't win anything but he had fun.
I was looking through old videos and found one from 2 years ago when we got our bird. I heard Nate talking on the video and was shocked by how much his voice has changed. He sounds like a man and I have to say it freaks me out a little sometimes. He's a great kid. He helps out around the house a lot and is always willing to take care of Leah when I need help. He isn't always so willing to get his homework done but he's working on that. He has so much potential. He loves science and understands things that I have never heard of and could never hope to understand.
He has taught me things about myself and about life that I couldn't have learned without him. I'm so grateful that he is in our family. It can't be easy being the oldest of 6 kids. He has a lot of responsibility and he handles it beautifully, most of the time :)