FAMILY TIME

We have certainly had an emotional up and down weekend. The loss of Shelby on Friday was hard, but the gathering of family on Saturday night for Scott's birthday was perfect:) Thanks everyone for coming....we even got to have Lori "join in" on speaker phone...that was hilarious! I think we should do that for all family gatherings.....then you can always say you were "there":) The flowers Jenny brought were so thoughtful.....thank you:)

Here are a few photos from the evening. The scope will forever be an "inside" family joke....leave it to mom! And I'm thankful that Scott was able to blow out ALL those candles in one breath.....yes.....40 would have probably had the fire department out here!!

Owen got the stomach flu on Friday night and spent that entire night and all day Saturday throwing up:( He stayed in his pj's all day, and only ate a small handful of grapes and drank orange soda. Here is the orange soda theory........

I couldn't get him to eat or drink anything, and when I finally did, he agreed to orange soda....which he said after throwing it up, "hey, that didn't taste so bad coming through my nose".......eeewwww.....but at least he was drinking SOMETHING!!

We weren't sure if he would feel well enough for his wrestling tournament today, but he surprised us all by waking up feeling fine! So we headed up to Chantilly, and he ended up having a pretty awesome day. He was able to get 2 pins, and lost one match by points. YEA OWEN!!! It makes me so happy to see him proud of himself after a good match. On the flip side, it breaks my heart to see his disappointment when he losses:( At least he hasn't cried yet, that seems to be pretty common in his age group....so sad to see:( He doesn't have another tournament for 3 weeks. They're having one next Saturday, but that's the day after Scott's big surprise party, and I KNOW we aren't going to make that one

(it starts at 8:00 in the morning)!!

This was the best picture I got of his win.........yes....that's really him behind the arms!!


HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!!!!