Updates from last weekend

Sorry I've been a little behind, but as I'm sitting here recovering from the storm, I decided to catch up. We're okay by the way, it just scared the bejeezus out of me thinking tornadoes were so close. I was seriously planning how we would crowd into the half-bath with the dog and lighting a candle just in case the power went out while Cory hurried to put my car under a neighbors carport (note to self - clean out garage).

Anyway, Ethan was able to fall asleep despite the thunder (unlike his fraidy-cay mommy) so I'm taking some time to share pictures with you all.

This past weekend was Nana's Birthday (my mom), so Ethan joined us at dinner and behaved quite nicely as usual. We're seriously considering making a cd of restaurant noise for his room because he's so relaxed at restaurants. Anyway, no pictures of Ethan there, but here's one of Nana (I know she's thrilled that I'm posting this).
And here's one of my grandparents cracking up at the gag gift they got her:
Too bad the camera batteries ran out at this point because I could have had some more pretty funny pictures. Sorry about that.

On Saturday, we had another family garage sale at my aunt Karen's house. It reminded me of the one we had last fall where we sold soooo much stuff and managed to earn a lot of money for Ethan's room and various supplies. It was not as profitable this time since we didn't have much to sell, but it was fun. Especially fun to see Don get rid of a bunch of stuff that was loooong overdue (we're talking junior high stuff). Anyway, here's a couple of pictures from the day.

Helping Daddy sell

With Great Aunt Paula
Ready for his close up
A family picture (we don't have a lot of these, too bad this isn't a very good one)

Sorry this post is a little lacking, but I'll try to get some more pictures of the monkey to share soon.