Brian's Birthday

It is late Thursday night - minutes away from Brian's birthday. We have a surprise place we are taking him for dinner but other than that, it is pretty low-key this year.

I talked to Blake on Saturday when the Beavers were knocking USC into 9th place in the Bowl Standings and he didn't know that his email was on the fritz again. He was still getting spam and unimportant mail and he thought we had all just collectively stopped writing to him and he wondered why we were all mad at him. So he is going to look into getting it to be a more stable server. He said he would send out an email letting everyone know - but he hasn't yet - or he sent it and it didn't get out of his server.

anyway - they are fine and he isn't being anti-social, he really thought his email was working and we were the ones being anti-social. So don't count him out of the holidays - he wants to take part.

Quiet Halloween - we had 2 trick or treaters. Margaret's kids came over. Joshie doesn't like chocolate, so we always make sure to have skittles for him, and we give him extra because you know when he gets home his older siblings sort out everything that is chocolate, or nuts, or spicy. He told his mom that he thinks Alicia knows he only likes vanilla things because she didn't give him chocolate and she gave him THREE packages. We just laughed. He is the cutest kid. Anything that is not chocolate or nuts or cinnamon is vanilla to him. I like to practice speaking German with him - he is the only one in their family who isn't fluid in German and so we are trying to help her get him used to hearing German. He is 6 - he got to go to Germany this summer for the first time since he was 2, so he is picking up a little of the language, but needs to hear it more often.

We spent today working on scrap book projects. Brian went up toward Cooper Landing for his big fishing trip of the year - he went with a guy from Church. they had a good time. they were out in a boat on a lake, so didn't see any bear prints to report. I forgot to ask what fish they found. I'll have to report later.
That's all for now, I guess. Oh, he got his CDL license on Tuesday, so all he has to do now is get fingerprinted - new homeland security rules.....truckdrivers have to be cleared thru TSA and be fingerprinted and background checked. So getting his license is a good step toward future employment. Have to resend all the applications .
Thinking of you all ---- Charlotte