Happy Birthday, Bobo!

Brody's birthday was quite the event. It started a couple of weeks ago when Grammy and Grandpa were here. She made a fancy guitar cake and he got Handy Mandy tools for his "practice birthday." Corey also seems to enjoy the tools.

He had a party with his friends Friday night at Bounce U, which was something ... and another birthday cake. It was pretty crazy with all those kids/boys/hockey players running around, but Brody loved it. He even got his own personalized version of the birthday song.

Today at camp they celebrated his birthday at a water park. Tonight we did the traditional birthday dinner at Organ Stop Pizza. Brody loves the music, lights ... even the food. Brody had fun opening all his gifts (the grandparents got to watch him too through the webcam) and proudly displayed his "My Fourth Birthday" ribbon all night.

Thanks to everyone for making Brody's birthday so special and fun!

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First post with new phone!

First week of summer has been a busy one ... boys are doing a summer camp through the American Cancer Society (lots of games, crafts, swimming ... even saw Shrek), Carrie is on jury duty and I'm spending most of my time in the car (counted 10 hours in four days)! Here are some photos from Amazing Jake's where Brody and I went to Tyler's birthday party.

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Brody's last day of school

Today was Brody's last day of school and they celebrated with a Water Day! He didn't really get in the pool or go down the slide, but he had fun with the water cannon.

He had a great year -- the Christmas program, various songs and field trip to the "Dinosaur bones museum" were my favorites -- and made lots of new friends ... hopefully we'll keep in touch!

Brody's FIRST Snowplow Sam class

Brody is taking skating lessons this summer, and he's on the ice all by himself for the first time (last time was a parent-tot class). After a shaky start, he seemed to have fun. Hopefully it doesn't take as long to warm up to it next time!

Capitals Eliminated from Championship Contention

Corey's hockey team lost their first two round-robin playoff games this week, and were eliminated from reaching the championship game. Their final game of the season is Friday night vs. the Lightning. They were defeated by the Flyers, 4-2, on Tuesday night (a team they beat 11-3 in the regular-season finale). The Capitals gave up two goals on the first three shots, one of which was an unfortunate deflection off of a defense's stick. Corey saved 13 of the next 15 shots, and the Capitals scored two goals, but ultimately lost.

Last night, Corey and the Capitals had their best game of the year. Facing our friends on the Penguins, a team that has lost just THREE TIMES all year, Corey actually had a shutout for 2+ periods. He saved the first 19 shots he faced, but in the end the Penguins were too tough, winning 3-1. Corey finished with 22 saves on 25 shots. After the first two goals against the Flyers, Corey saved an amazing 35 of 40 shots (for a save percentage of .875). His goals-against average for the playoffs in two games is 3.50. For comparison's sake, the other teams' GAA are 3.00 for Penguins, 5.50 for Flyers, and 9.00 for the Lightning.

I'll do more of a season wrap-up after the final game, but was feeling nostalgic, so here is a video of Corey's FIRST hockey skating lesson on Sept. 5, 2007 (note, he was wearing shorts because I was told the first lesson would be off the ice):