We got our half a cow Friday. Seems like the cow was bigger this year. So once again, the freezer is crammed full of meat for the next year. Saturday was date night, first of 2010. Beth and I went out to see "Up in the Air" which was good, but not really earning the incredible raves I've been hearing. Today we all went to the mall in Fort Wayne, hit the B&N and the Disney Store, bought some pants, let the kids ride the carousel. Alex also tried out the super jumping thing, where you're strapped onto big rubber bands and bounce on a trampoline kind of thing. He didn't quite get the technique, but he seemed to enjoy it a lot. Bouncing is the thing of the weekend because Saturday morning we took the kids to Toni's daughter's birthday party at a neat place called Bremen Bounce; it's a formerly empty warehouse building where someone has put up a bunch of the inflatable bouncy-jumpy things for kids. It's noisy as heck inside but cool. The kids had a great time, too, except Missy didn't have much of anyone to play with, and the kids begged for candy or pop or video games pretty much from the time we got there. But there was cake and ice cream so it was all good.