What a weekend

Dina had a Creative Memories retreat this weekend, so I was Mr. Mom from Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon. Luckily I had some help from my mom, because Caden and Rohan had a lot of trouble sleeping due to teething issues. Caden, in fact, had another tooth come through, which means that both times Dina's been gone for the entire night, one of the twins has had a tooth pop through. Dina's theory is that they'll do anything to get their mama back. :-)

On Saturday my mom watched Caden and Rohan for a while so I could take Griffin to the Shrine Circus in Minneapolis. It was fun! That was his first circus, and the first I've been to in a long, long time. It was hard to get good pictures since it was so dark, but here are some of the elephants:

From Kids

From Kids

The elephants were almost Griffin's favorite part. For him nothing could top the human cannonball, which had a really loud boom and shot a guy pretty darn far through the air into the net. Griffin thought that was just awesome. He was right. :-)

On Sunday I got some cleaning and such done around the house while my mom watched the boys, and in the afternoon Dina came home. Dina's sister Gretchen and her boys came over (Keefe is staying at our place for a couple days) so we all had pizza. The adults also had beer - Bell's Special Double Cream Stout. Tasty!

Speaking of beer, the final event for the evening was bottling my latest batch, Amarillo Pale Ale. A quick sip of the uncarbonated beerjuice revealed lots and lots and lots of tangy hops goodness. This will be a good one. Rob, a friend who is interested in brewing and was around to help brew this batch, helped me bottle. Good God Almighty, it goes so much faster with two people.

Bring on the week!