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Last week was my last full week of work and I spent a good portion of it working on a report. I have more reports to do and my Performance summary. I hate writing the summary. It feels really lame to talk yourself up about what you did for the year. Eh, gotta get er done.

Friday night we hosted the old gaming group for a board/card game night. It was the first time we'd had the whole crewe over since I think November or December last year. Wow. It was good to see everyone and now we have kids. Inara and Benton played for a bit before their bedtimes and Mason/Linnet played Lego Batman for a fun evening. We ended up playing Clue since

meowandbark had never played it. We then moved on to a few rounds of Zombie Dice and Cthulhu Dice and then finally played "give me the brain" but we didn't finish that cause it was late and Miss Inara was awake.

Saturday morning Benton was up kinda early and then fell asleep right after breakfast. I snuggled with him for about an hour before I really needed coffee and breakfast. I was going to put him in bed with mel to snuggle with but mel finally got up. We had waffles for breakfast and that made us all happy. Benton had a good time eating those. Since the boys didn't get up till late we changed plans for the street fair until Sunday. I talked with

fibergeek for quite a while and then finally got out of the house for errands before rushing home to head to Elgin for Mons's Yule. It was a really nice event and the food was FABULOUS! OMG! Mr. Benton ate the entire first course with gusto and then was uber full. Had a good time chatting with folks and then we headed home and got in just about 10pm. Needless to say after some beer mel and I headed to bed shortly thereafter.

Sunday morning Benton was up just before 8am. We had plans to be at the street fair by 10am and had to rush through things. Mel was really tired and I'm sure part of that was he got up with the boy once when he was awake and needed socks, blankets and a binky. We got to the fair just after 10am and met up with

meowandbark, Andrew and their niece Devon. We had a really nice time and had a nice lunch at Bumsted's. Benton did great and crashed out after lunch in his stoller. I'm really glad I bought the Rayshade for the stroller. Its a life saver in the AZ sun. We bought a few things and then it was home. Mel napped and the boy played while I worked on the tree. I had gotten the lights on it in the morning and then managed to get it decorated in the afternoon. I then got the front room cleaned and got the piano all decorated and the christmas village up and when I really got on a roll I went out side and started in on the outside lights but quickly realized (after mel told me I was being dumb) that I really needed daylight and a ladder to finish the job. But i did get the lights tested and strung together so getting them up shouldn't be too bad once we have the right equipment. Hopefully, even with the rain today we can get that done. I'm very happy with how the house turned out though...just a bit more cleaning and some prep and we should be good for the household Yule on Sunday.

I have some baking to do for it and another surprise in mind as well for everyone and just need to finish making things.