Birthday party Part II

Catie really enjoyed the cake.



Miranda is very concerned that Uncle Mark is not giving back the coveted fish shirt quickly enough.


The bubble puppy was hit.


And presents from family far away.

Birthday Party for Catie and Miranda

It's hard to believe but the twins are three years old. Today we celebrated their birthday with a Wetzel family party.



Getting ready to blow out the candles.


Catie's excited about the chocolate cake.


Miranda spent a good part of the party making sure that the balloons were safely gathered.

Erika vacuums

This is the first time Erika has done legitimate housework. She even asked to do it.
Afterwards commenting, "That was hard work."

Typical night at the Wetzels

Jason takes a creative writing class

Jackie found a continuing education class called "creative writing:Sci Fi/fantasy" and signed me up. It meets 6 Tuesdays in a row for 3 hours. The instructor's name is Cat Rambo and we had our first session last week.
A couple things:
1) It was unusual for me, but I was the only person in the room with a job
2) I was the only student who did not use the character of "dungeon-master" in a particular exercise.

In class, we had a list of characters, and a list of conflicts....
Students must pick two characters and one conflict and then in a 5-minute timed exercise write a story. Then we all read our stories out loud. Next week we are to have these stories polished up.
Inexplicably, I chose the following:
* A chess player
* An omniscient entity
* A terminal illness.

And now I'm stuck with these.

Although the title of any story involving these three things practically writes itself: "checkmate, I know you are dying" We'll see what happens from there. Suggestions welcome.