I had a nice 3-day work week last week, between Memorial Day and taking Friday off to watch the kids while Beth went to a Christian women's thing in Indianapolis. I took the kids to the nature walk in town Friday and shot some good video of Alex running around on our new camcorder. In the evening Jim came over and we ordered pizza and watched "North by Northwest." Saturday I got a call from Judy before Beth got home, saying they were on the way to Michigan, traffic was very heavy, and could they stop overnight at our house and go with us to Sam's birthday party Sunday? Sure, I said, but we didn't know about the party. They got here a few hours after Beth did. Jim gave Alex a whole can of yellow tennis balls so Alex loved Uncle Jim. Sunday Judy and Jim watched the kids while Beth and I went to church, then we all headed north for the party. We stayed for dinner with everyone, which was probably too long for the kids because Alex cried almost the whole way home. Too tired to go to sleep.