My Brother from Another Mother

That's what Aidan and Sam call each other.

No wonder. When I asked Sam's father for permission to blog about Sam and post his picture he said, "Sure why not, he's your son too." In many ways that's how we feel. Actually, that's how many people feel about Sam because he's like the valedictorian of charm school.

So anyway, mostly I just wanted to show you this cute picture of Sam and his new soccer cleats. Are they awesome or what?! Bob said that when they were shopping choices, Sam's eyes found this pair and it was like love at first sight.

For Easter, dear friends from church gave Aidan one of those Mad-Lib books. You know, those stories with blanks where you insert nouns, verbs, adjectives and such to make it extra funny. Sam helped Aidan figure out how to do it (photo) and then it was like another freedom let loose. Aidan learned that he could insert his two favorite words into every blank. For those of you who can stomach second grade humor, his favorite Mad Lib is below.

PLEASE, you must believe me when I tell you that the humor is all Aidan's. Sam humors Aidan like the best big brother in the world. Which is exactly what Sam is to Aidan.

Speaking of friends, how about this pair. Bob and Patrick heading out to the greens. Who wouldn't want these guys to be their pastors? Speaking of, Patrick just stopped by and said that they've got pizza for our kids, why don't Bob and I have a anniversary outting just the two of us. How about that! So, with no further ado, we're heading out to dinner!

Take care, friends. Thank you for coming over to the liver blog. I hope you and all your vital organs are doing well.

With love, T

P.S. Oopsie, almost forgot the Mad Lib which you will surely wish I actually had. Later I'll give you Dave and Linnea's phone number if you want to personally thank them for giving Aidan this book. ;-) Aidan's word choices in bold.

Science Project

This year, everyone in my class had to do a nasty science fair project. For my project, I decided to put an old fart in the refrigerator to see what would happen to it. After a few days, it started to turn nasty and fart. I couldn't believe it -- I'd never seen anything so nasty! After a full week, it started to look like a flattened fart and smelled like a nasty. But all my fart work paid off. At the science fair, I wond a special award for having a really nasty project. I even got a fart ribbon that siad "Super Nasty Science Student" and a big trophy shaped like a fart!

Another P.S.
Congratulations to Sam's mother who is now officially "The Rev. Dr." after last week successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis. Hurrah!!!!!!!!!!