Holy lack of posts, Blogman!

Sorry about the drought there folks! It's been a while, so I'll try to catch you up on what's happening.

We had a great weekend this weekend. We headed out to Brandon again on Saturday on the way to Deloraine to celebrate Carrie's Uncle Dennis' 60th birthday party (more on that later). On our way out of town we bought Ben a wagon from Toys 'R' Expensive. They had a $90 2 child wagon on sale for $50! We got there early and were in a large crowd of people snapping them up. (This is what I tell Carrie to justify running in the store and punching that old lady.)

After that we headed out to Brandon. We had a nice visit with the Teneys and Grandma Lil - Aunt Nancy gave Carrie her prized meatball recipe so that we would have a dish to bring to the potluck that night. We also found out that Mitchell placed 4th out of 96 players at one of the local poker tournaments. He's turning into a regular Phil Gordon (but way less geeky).

We then picked up Chris and headed out to Deloraine. It was a great party with TONS of good home-cooked food and lots of family and friends out to share the day with Dennis. The life of the party (in our opinion) had to be Ben - he ripped every balloon he could reach off the tables, ran amok with his Great-Grandfather's cane and gave each and every guest "The Eye". He also loved watching the other older kids play. He didn't eat much dinner, but he DID eat 2 pieces of cake and had some punch. He also learned to drink apple juice out of a juice box (and root beer out of a used glass). Needless to say for half of the ride back to Brandon he was quite wiggy in his car seat. He kept laughing hysterically whenever Carrie or Chris or I would chuckle. What a ham.

For the past two days Ben has gone for walks in his new wagon and he LOVES it. He talks, points, kicks his feet and has a great time as we walk around.

Tonight was Ben's first swimming lesson of his second class. He was able to participate quite a bit more this time as opposed to being dragged around the pool for half an hour. He also BLEW BUBBLES! Very, very cute. I would take pictures but people are not supposed to take pictures anymore at public pools (to avoid child porn). Isn't this a wonderful, happy world we live in?

I am back at school - feels like I was away for a long weekend. Oh well. My job still kicks butt.

I'll sign off - I'll try and blog more often!

Gordo