BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02818 Allison and I attended the Marriage Prep program today at Saint Mary's Church. We went to the dinner last night to meet all of the engaged couples. It was a full house with a lot of laughter and discussion. Today was the actual day of the program. We have been doing a dinner the night before so that everyone can feel comfortable with the team on the second day. I got their later because I had to sleep after work.  Towards the end of the program we went outside to see a newly married couple exit the church. This couple had been part of our Spring marriage prep program. They were so thrilled to see everyone there clapping for them as they exited. I should have caught a photo of them but didn't have my phone out at the time.

Photo-A-Day #02817 I had seen some photos from another Philly Pretzel factory where they made some pumpkin and jack-o-lantern pretzels. I showed my boss and suggested that he run a special on them with the new seasonal  pumpkin dip. Like 3 pretzels and pumpkin dip for $3 or something like that. Not sure if he will do it but he did make a bunch and I took three home today.

Photo-A-Day #02816 James now spend a lot of time with Allison and me. I got him some cat stairs so that he could easily get up on the bed and he uses that to his advantage every night and sleeps with us. I hope that when Eva returns for visits he'll go back and sleep in their bed. He does tend to take off when it is just me sleeping in the bed. That is after he's licked my arm a few times. But if I try and pet him he's gone.

Photo-A-Day #02815 Special dark pretzels or my boss has wicked ADHD and so he often forgets to hit the button on the timer and we know the pretzels are DONE when we can smell them. These weren't burnt, burnt they were very very dark and still tasty inside. I had one of them and it had some decent crunch.

Photo-A-Day #02814 I went to the new Phoenix theaters at Patriot Place this morning to see Avengers: Endgame: Encore. With avengers Doomsday coming to theaters in a couple of months Marvel re-released Avengers: Endgame because apparently it sets up Avengers: Doomsday and the encore of Endgame even has additional footage that leads directly to the new movie. It was great to see this movie on the big screen again. The phoenix theaters are great, too. Less expensive all around but a way better seating experience. You can feel the movie as you watch it. Each seat is hooked into the bass sound so that explosions and stuff can be felt as you watch the movie. It was really cool.

Photo-A-Day #02813 I took Andy to the orthodontist today to get things started with Invisalign. Andy has express that they want braces to correct a few things with their teeth. We've put it off because of cost and also trying to get Andy to be more responsible for their own teeth. And andy has been more responsible. However, they still get cavities. But the thing that really made us say, we have to do this was andy's school photo. We looked at the photo and Andy wasn't smiling, just a smirk. When asked about it andy got upset that they hated their teeth and I could feel how upset Andy was about ti. So, we decided to look into it. Yes, it is a cost but insurance does help (a bit). So today we got the ball rolling. Maybe by Senior year Andy will be smiling in their photos like they are in the second photo of these intake shots.