We are the parents of a TEENAGER!!

It's hard to believe that it has been 13 years since we became parents. I can remember with vivid detail the day Hannah was born. Now she is officially a teenager! It was a busy week for our family, so she opened her gifts from the family in the morning before school.

What's in the big box?

Newspaper?? What another box??

What? Another box? Well at least this one is wrapped!

It's a cell phone! Are her parents CRAZY!!!!!!

Yes! Hannah got a prepaid cell phone for Christmas 2008 with the first prepaid card. The deal was she would learn how to manage her minutes and earn her own money to purchase them in the future. With her running all over the county for soccer & basketball we decided it was time. She did ok with it for about 6 months. Then she would "text" herself out of 200 minutes (400 texts) in a weeks time. It became a constant battle over the phone and we began to reqret getting the thing.

In early October SCN began switching people's phones over to AT&T iphones. And SCN employees could get a discount if they signed up with AT&T. So Brian started doing some research, talked to the SCN IT manager and the manager of the AT&T store here in town. And thus we signed up for a family plan and Hannah got an unlimited texting, full keyboard & touch screen phone for her birthday. She is on cloud nine! (Of course that will only last until she messes up and gets it taken away.)

What's Brian doing in all the pictures? The plan was for him to call the phone while she was unwrapping it. Some plans work, this one didn't. But her face was still great when she realized what she had opened.

HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY, HANNAH! Love Mom & Dad