January 29

Tonight was Connor's belated birthday night with pizza and cake.  Ryan is home for a few days and his friend Jacob came over too.  After dinner, Mark took the guys and Kelleigh to WWE ... I opted to stay home!  Unfortunately Connor has a terrible cold and barely any voice; hopefully he will enjoy it.

When Connor wasn't looking, Mark added "Go Niners" to the cake when he filled out the order form as Connor has the Ravens in their Super Bowl bet!

At the WWE event where all their favorites are - current World Heavyweight Champion Champion lberto Del Rio, "The Celtic Warrior" Sheamus, "The Viper" Randy Orton, Wade Barrett, The Rhodes Scholars, the WWE Divas and more!

January 26

This morning Mark and I went to see this movie.  While there were clearly some creative liberties taken and things left out, it was a very well done film on how intense the process was to bring down bin Laden.  I have tremendous respect for those who doggedly pursued him and realized early on that I don't do well with interrogations!

Then Kell and I went to the mall as she was insistent I see the prom dress she had tried on with her girlfriends.  Upon seeing it again, she decided she didn't like it as much after all. We chose a few more to try on but nothing was "the one" but fortunately we have time.  I got a pair of jeans, stopped by the grocery store, and home to fix dinner.

We are having a rainy, dismal day here which has kept the attendance down at the Torrey Pines golf tournament.  Such a shame that it couldn't be the glorious weekend we had last week as it's such a beautiful location to spend a day.

January 23

Connor is 16 today!  Hard to believe that 16 years ago we were driving home with him at this time.  He was one of the most precious and sweetest babies you could ever want.

Banner that greeted him this morning ...

We will actually celebrate his birthday early next week as he wanted to see WWE so Mark got tickets to take Connor, Kelleigh, and Jacob then we'll have cake.  He has enjoyed his couple days so far at RBHS.  This is finals week for Kelleigh so she's been hard at work studying each night.

This is also Ryan's last night of his first vet science class and, because he earned a B in the class, he is able to move on to the more advanced one which begins in a couple weeks.  We are so proud of how hard he worked to make this happen. He also got his car back from the shop today so it's been a great day for him!

My dad's doctor appointment wasn't the news I had hoped for.  Mom said he was taken off the medication that the doctor put him on yesterday and is back on what he was given in the hospital.  They told him he is at high risk for a stroke. If this doesn't work, he will have to go in to hospital to have it shocked back.

January 21

Last night Mark and I took Ryan his new car which we had picked up from the dealership earlier in the day. We met him at work in time for his break, drove the short distance to the restaurant (across the parking lot) so I could show him a few things as our time was short, and had dinner.  Got in the car to go back over to his job and the car wouldn't start.  Okay ... maybe some day this will be funny, but at 7:00p on a Sunday night in a place where you know no car repair businesses, it definitely is not.  As Ryan went back to work very disheartened, we attempted to get some roadside assistance which proved to be no easy feat.  In the meantime, fortunately, the car started and we drove it to New Life figuring it was easier to deal with there than in a parking lot.  We chose to stay until Ryan got off work at 9p to ensure he was calm and that we would deal with things.  On the bright side, if this was going to happen, it was a blessing it did while Mark and I were still there rather than when he got off work.  Today the car is in the shop being evaluated and tomorrow we will know what they find.

Talked to Dad for a bit today and, while he sounded more like himself, his heart rate is very high.  He has a doctor appointment tomorrow so hopefully they can figure out why.

This week I have two birthdays - Connor's 16th on Wednesday and my boss' on Thursday.  Here is the card I made for my boss which has AMC movie tickets inside and the matching envelope (can't see Connor's until Wednesday!) ...