My birthday was last Thursday and I sure did have a good time. I got to go to my favorite mexican food joint Garcia’s to get burritos bigger than my head. We also went bowling, which is becoming my birthday tradition, on Saturday night. I managed to miss only 10 pins in the entire first game ending with a 154 total. It was a blast! Then on Sunday we went and saw Shrek 2, which was great.
The Sweet Smell of Cow Patties
Sara and I finally got a much needed break from the city and took a week long jount to good ol’ PA. We were in one wedding, attended two weddings though, visited 3 Grandmas, fixed 4 deprived family computers, drove through 5 states, and a whole lot more.
We got to see a bunch of family which was great. We both hung out with friends too. Sara and I both got the pleasure of being in our best friends Amanda and Travis’ wedding which was a blast.
The hardest thing about our week besides running around like crazy to see everyone, was leaving to come back here to Chicago. Even though we love Chicago and it has become our home. I’m quite not sure what they put in that well water back home in PA, but it sure did make both of us miss it so. We really aren’t sure if we are going to find another appartment this summer in Chicago or pack it all in and move back home to PA with our loved ones. I guess we will just keep praying about it. We could use some of yours as well too during these next couple of months.
It sure would be nice to move home again, but it’s all easier said than done i suppose. Maybe it’s just my crazy pipe dream. I’ve never had such terrible home sickness.
As a side note, John and Kristie have been working on the possibility of starting up a ministry. Here is the temporary location of the ministry website John and I are working on together: Skybacher Ministries It’ll be changing pretty rapidly over the next week or so and we hope of getting a domain address set up for it soon as well. Pray for them as well during this exciting but scary process!
Home away from Home
Mom and Aunt Bonnie arrived today flying in from Cleveland. Uncle John and Glenn dropped them off at the airport and me, Jim, and Aidan went to pick them up at O’hare. We spent the day hanging out since it was rainy and cold here. We all had a good time.
Down in the Dumps
If I were an interior designer and I had the assignment of doing up the master bathroom for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, I’d make sure there would be two toilets facing eachother. This way I wouldn’t have to keep doing the “spin puke/poop” move with only one toilet. I seemed to get a pretty nasty stomach virus last tuesday that knocked me out cold and cause me to lose 4 days of work, boo-hoo, I know. The real problem was the anal-leakage burning my nether regions and inner thighs. Then having to miraclulously jump off and spin my body around to let my stomach let go all my liquid insides to spite me. As if just standing up to run to the bathroom wouldn’t cause me to feel nausious enough, I have to perform acrobatics to enhance the puke feeling. Well 6 days later, I finally made it back to work. No, the place didn’t fall down without me. Was there a backlog of work building up while I was away? No. I sit here bored, and emotionally confused as to what the heck I am doing here.
If you have never experienced any of the above and would like to know what it’s all about then by all means go here:
http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/yucky/puke.html
Weekend Like No Other
I wisked Sara away this weekend on a much need break from her hectic tax season. We drove about 3 hour out from Chicago to a little place called Sagatuck, MI on the other side of the lake from us. It was a ‘perfect’ weekend, with the average daily temp around 80 degrees. We spent so much time relaxing we don’t know how on earth we will be able to get back to the crazy city grind. We left friday afternoon and arrived at the Parkhouse Bed and Breakfast where we stayed in the Pansy suite. The place was great and the breakfasts were huge. On saturday we woke up and went to the beach, came home and each got a hour massage, jacuzzi, then a nice dinner. We headed back to the beach for sunset where we took our famous ‘praise’ picture for Aunt Bonnie’s collection. Then we got some ice cream at a little stand and then got in the jacuzzi again. Man saturday was rough!
We drove back to the windy city which happened to be super windy on sunday. Ozzie called us up and we went to Evanston for a fun cookout on the beach to top off our relaxing weekend. If only every weekend could be this stress free!
You can see more images from our weekend here:
Ben and Sara’s Photo Gallery