Cody's Birthday

20 birthday candles.

Sister Hill from Kinston 2nd Ward sent me these photos that they took of Cody's birthday.  They had him and his companion and 2 other missionaries over for dinner that night and had a party for him.  She made him a snow tunnel cake with the recipe I sent her.  He has had a snow tunnel cake for his birthday for as long as we can remember.  They also had steak and cheesy potatoes-another recipe I sent her.  I sent his birthday package to their house because things are taking so long to get to him with having to go to mission home first and then to him.  They held it for him and she even wrapped it up so he could have something to open.  We sent him a GPS, a tie for his Tie of the Month club, some vitamins, tea tree oil and a chocolate orange. She sent me a great email with the link to all these pictures and said that he had a great time and they were so glad that they could feed the missionaries that day.  This is what she put at the end of her email.

"I just got your email saying you have seen the pictures so disregard the above paragraph!! But...NO, I didn't hug him...Jeff did it for me! HE is WAY too obedient to have a female hug him...and that is a great thing! For example...all of a sudden my kitchen emptied out tonight...all four missionaries ran outside...I walked to see where they were going...they had all rushed out of the house because my husband had gone to get something out of his car...THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE IN THE HOUSE WITHOUT A PRIESTHOOD HOLDER BECAUSE ONLY ME AND MY DAUGHTER WERE IN THERE! It was hilarious because she and I were both busy doing something else...we didn't even know Jeff had gone out!

 

Anyway...what a great group of elders we have! Thanks so much for sharing him with us...and if it is any reassurance there is not an unhappy bone in that boy's body! They are gone to an appointment with an investigator now. They are really rocking and rolling this area! Have a great night!"

I told her to give him a great big birthday hug from his momma and so that is what the hugging part is about.  All of her emails say how happy he is and how funny he is.  It sounds like from his letters and the Hill's emails that really is happy and doing well.