What Justin got for his birthday

Our other milestone this in the last couple months was Justin turning 15 on May 14. That's right, he can get his driving permit. I'm really not sure if I'm ready to go through another student driver or not. I'm still getting over Chris.

Justin's birthday wasn't going to be very exciting here as Kurt and I were both working until late, so we let him go over to a friend's house who was also having a birthday that weekend. This particular friend is in Justin's quorum at church and his dad is our home teacher and the Priest Quorum adviser, so I felt pretty safe sending Justin over there for a party and to then spend the night.

At 1:30 in the morning, I got a call from Justin saying that I needed to come get him because they got in trouble. He then called back to say that I should pick them up at the park and not at his friend's house. It was 1:30, so I was too tired to really think about it while I was on the phone, but it kicked in after I got off--they're at the park at 1:30 in the morning and in trouble. Yep, I was betting the cops were there.

I got to the park and was met by the scene of four police cars with their lights going and probably 12-15 boys. They were at the park having an Air Soft war and apparently a couple kids decided to go ring doorbells and run not to mention that they were out way past curfew.

I found Justin getting his police paperwork done and asked him if his friend's dad knew where they were. His answer? "His dad drove us here." Ok, so was his mom home? No. It turns out she was in Utah. For all you mothers out there, this whole thing is now explained. It turns out they had already broken something at the house and I'm guessing the chance to get them out of the house was just too tempting to turn down. I suppose that if the kids had to go to court or we had to pay a fine, I might be more upset, but the kids were just issued warnings, so no real harm came out of it. I really, really feel for the dad, though, as he is a really good guy that made a mistake, but there were a lot of kids there and several from our church, so it made the gossip rounds pretty fast.

So, what did Justin get for his 15th birthday? Yes, a police record.