Busy October

Wow - what a busy month!
October is full of birthdays. Happy Birthday to my brother Bill, nephew Jonny, Joey, me, and now we add a new nephew Brody. Yes, my brother Jerry and wife Heather had a beautiful (can you say beautiful for a boy?) new son born on October 9th. Yep, he got the cool birthdate 10-09-08. We did the combined birthday party for Joey and Jonny at our house this year on the 11th. Had to do it semi early in the afternoon since that evening was Homecoming dance for Wayland and also for Hudsonville, so Joey and Kim both wanted to be going to their respective dances. As you can see in the pictures, Joey and his buddies clean up nicely. :-) It was nice that Mandi was home for her brother's birthday, but I think it was mainly the homecoming game on Friday night that brought her home for the weekend. Who cares, it's always nice to have her home!

I've added more pictures from October to our Picasa Web Album if you'd like to check them out. Here's the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/Benhausen

VIP Day

I was invited by my nephew , Jonny, to VIP day at school. How sweet is that? Of course my sister Kathy (Jonny's mom) was also a VIP, but I can share.

So VIP day was yesterday and I must say that his school sets it up nicely for their visitors. Had a buffet of fresh fruit, donut holes, juice, milk and coffee for us all since we were there at 8:30 in the morning. Jonny took us on a tour of his school and we got to meet his teacher and his art teacher.

Bumped into Stacy (my niece) and her friend Matt since they were her son Mason's VIPs. Also bumped into a former boss of mine that I haven't seen for at least 10 years. That was a pleasant surprise! It was a very nice function and I was glad that Jonny invited me.