Nice weekend

In many ways, it was a really nice weekend. We got in some good family time, beautiful weather...etc If you live around here and didn't make it outside, you really missed out! Kaci and Big Justin came down for a visit and we had a really nice time visiting - and playing phase 10. I have to know, has anyone actually made it all the way through that game? We did have a lot of players - it actually kind of felt like Thanksgiving or something b/c all three Wittmer kids and their spouses were present, plus all the grandkids. Yes, to date we are the only grandchild contributors, hopefully that will change soonish....? Ok, I'm not the one who's supposed to be applying that sort of pressure, so I'll leave that to the grandparents.

That was our Saturday. Sunday the FOP hosted a family day out at the camp. We all enjoyed it, especially Justin and Kendrick. After we got there, we halfway wished we had brought Gabe, since it was a beautiful day and not too crowded, but it is probably better that we resisted temptation. He looks so good and is doing so well by appearances that it makes it hard to remember sometimes we still need to be cautious. While we were there, we were talking about Gabe's first birthday. We are tentatively thinking this occasion would make a great "coming out" opportunity. Blog allows the option to "poll" your viewers, but we never had anything we particularly cared to poll everybody on. Gabe's birthday falls on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, and we know this would be a good weekend for some and a bad one for others. If I can figure it out, I am going to poll everybody on what weekend would work out better for them. We are thinking this will be an open invitation event - if you want to come, then come - even if we have never met face-to-face, even if you are not local, if you can manage it and want to celebrate with us, come celebrate with us. Ofcourse, we don't know what Josh's schedule will be and won't until January, so that may trump the poll decisions!!

Ok, I don't have time to figure out the polling thing just now, but watch for it!! We really want to stress that EVERYONE is invited - family, friends, health care folks - EVERYONE!!