Public Menaces?

Sam here... Last week (Or the week before? How time flies...) some of my family came to visit. As soon as they arrived we reloaded the car and went to Common Grounds for coffee and crosswords. Unfortunately, partway through the crossword, a mocha-accident happened... coffee everywhere! On the crossword. On the floor. On my jeans. The employees were very gracious and quickly brought a mop and offered to remake the mocha. In my attempts to help clear the table of stuff so it could be sopped up, I dumped my water cup over, too. The boy mopping gave me a clear "are you serious" look and we quickly (and sheepishly) exited the building. Later we braved Burgers and Brew for lunch without incident.

Later, while Katie held Siena, I took advantage of two free hands to play in the garden with Mom. Aunt Katie is an all-star Siena-sitter.



Mom got busy fast: she planted my hydrangea, pulled out the remaining ivy under the grapefruit tree, and filled the big hole in the back corner.



When Dad was done mowing the lawn AND fixing the door to the garage, he sat down for some QT with his favorite grandbaby.

In other news, Sarah turned 32 on November 14th and requested Sloppy Joes for her birthday dinner. Last year was meatloaf. See "today's meatloaf is tomorrow's sloppy joe." She was loving all the attention!

Uncle Lilo taught Lukey a new trick: sucking in the belly. Luke needed SOME way to get the attention back on him.

Grammy's bundles of joy.

When Bethany is germ-free and Siena is in the room, she's probably holding her...

Shiloh's birthday also happened that week, but he doesn't appreciate birthday attention as much as his "big" sister. He didn't want his own birthday dinner (he got one anyway), so here he just got to blow out the re-lit candle for the big 3-0.

Siena was plain tuckered out from all the festivities. Isn't she cute?

Just this past weekend we participated in UCD's first Team Handball Tournament. It was a blast learning a new sport, and Shiloh's team kicked serious booty.
















Here is Shiloh's team post-championship game...
Standing (L-R): Joe Friis, Ranell Gonzales, Andy Christopher, Benny Burtt, Justin Smith, and Joel Holly.
Squatting (L-R): Sean Holleman, Shiloh, Rob Brunner



Some video action...