As a follow up to visiting Dwayne and Dorothy on Saturday, we had everyone over to our house for a Rock band Party on Sunday!

We had a full blown rock out with everybody trying everything!

I really enjoyed helping Serena learn how to play the guitar, before we knew it she was rocking the bass all by herself!

Max has become so good that he’s working more on his Rock moves than his playing. We’re mastering the back to back guitar technique. Soon we’ll move to jumping splits and lighting guitars on fire

Liam played Drums and also played ‘Band Manager’. He let us know how many tickets we sold, how much the crowd liked us, and how much harder we have to work to get more famous. He’s going to make a great supervisor someday.

I have more of Max coming up in the next blog…. stay tuned!

We celebrated Dwayne and Dorothy’s anniversary and housewarming as one giant happy family. Samuel and Serena are Dorothy’s, and Ben is Dwayne’s. Combine them with Myself, Melissa and our kids Max and Liam and what a party it was!

I was amazed how quickly Serena took to Melissa. They had a great time together decorating her room with fairy stickers and coloring. Melissa was Serena’s pick to take all the kids to the park and immediately all the kids were competing for her attention, “Melissa watch me!” was being called out from everywhere!

At the end of the night she insisted on giving both of us big hugs. AAwww…

Samuel actually reminds me quite a bit of myself at that age. Very quick witted, intelligent, and always ready with a snappy one-liner or TV quote. He’s obviously very skilled in the realm of video games as well, so maybe one day I’ll have to sit down with him, power up the PS3 and see if I’ve still ‘got it’.

Ben is the powerhouse of the crew. I had already had the pleasure of meeting him when Dwayne was nice enough to help us move some stuff. He’s very helpful, always taking care of everyone else before himself. Liam and Ben got along great and before long they were shooting hoops with the mini-basketball net we brought for his housewarming present.

Dwayne cooked up a storm on the BBQ, I played soccer with all the kids, and we all had ice cream for dessert and played Wii . A perfect day. Congratulations to the Bzdels!

Cat Cake!

Wow did we ever do it up right for Max’s 9th Birthday! Melissa baked a cake shaped like a cat from “The Warriors”, one of Max’s favorite books

Everything done on the 4th was Max’s call. Breakfast of ‘Egg McMurrays”, Max’s favorite restaurant, and a BBQ in the backyard with family. Toss in a visit from Grandma and Grandpa, a trip to Ruckers and the rock climbing wall and that’s a full day!

I was so proud of both Max and Liam through the whole day. Never once did they forget table manners, and all I heard was please and thank you. Liam was so excited for Max he was thanking everybody as well. ‘thanks for buying Max such awesome presents everybody’.

When Max opened the present that Liam had bought for him with his own money, the hug Max gave was instant, honest and heartfelt. A moment I’ll never forget.

Happy birthday Son.

OK So I have changed my day job and the learning curve has been STEEP! I’m just getting above water so the daily blog resumes tomorrow with updates!