Ben is Ten!

Yep! Today my second born turned 10 years old! Double digits, it a WAY huge deal. We celebrated by taking the kids and 3 of Ben's friends to Planet X. What is Planet X? You are asking that if you don't live in Omaha, or you are not a pre-teen boy. Planet X is an indoor amusement park - a kind of pre-teen Chuckie Cheese type place with lazer tag, bumper cars, and lots of inflatable toys and the obligatory video games that spit out tickets that you redeem for cheap prizes. The kids, of course had a blast! Ben's theme for the 3rd year in a row (maybe it is 4th! He's pretty loyal to his heros...) was SUPERMAN. He even dressed the part for part of the day in his inflato-super-suit! Ben's dinner of choice was the Superman pizza from Papa Johns (nobody told him it had onions, green peppers and olives on it =o ). Ben is SO loyal to Superman he ate a piece of it anyway only because it was a SUPERMAN pizza! I will have to remember that the next time I serve brocolli or carrots - "They are SUPERMAN veggies Ben!"


Robb turned down a call back this morning for Ben because he knew he couldn't miss his party. Robb got MAJOR wifey bonus points for that! He was blessed to be asked again for the 'last 12' and is now out on a truck for the night! He got the best of both worlds, or he literally got his cake (heehee) and ate it too! He will be back home in the morning and won't have to worry about getting called and missing Church and tomorrow nights baptism service.
ELF is on TV - a family favorite! Nemo and It's A Wonderful Life is also on, so I was outvoted for watching It's A Wonderful Life (I guess the kids haven't discovered the REAL classics yet). I love ELF though.
Happy Birthday Benjamin! We love you little OB-1