Over the weekend

Mike, Melissa, Nick and Ben came up from Sioux City to visit us this weekend. We had a great time with them. Brayden was really excited to hang out with Nick. We took them to Nickelodeon Universe and the MOA on Sunday. Brayden rode a lot more rides this time because Nick rode with him. We also took them to the zoo on Monday, the boys had a blast feeding the goats by hand at the zoo's family farm.

Nick Universe

Cal Ripken Jr.

On Sunday, Mike and I went to the MOA to get Cal Ripken Jr.'s new book autographed. We had to be there by 9:30 to get wristbands just to stand in line, then he was there at 1:00 for the signing. Man, was it worth the wait. Meeting Cal was about as cool as it gets (since I haven't met Favre yet).

T-Rex

Today Brayden and I built a scale model of a T-Rex. It turned out pretty cool.

All Pro Dads

Yesterday Brayden and I went to Winter Park (yes, the training facility of the Vikings) to participate in an All Pro Dads workshop. It was pretty fun. Coaches Childress and Frasier talked to the group about the importance of fathers in their kids lives, then we went through different football drills. Brayden was pretty young for most of them, but he liked running around with the other kids. They also had beanbag and football toss games for him to play. It lasted about three hours, but it was very informative, and something you don't get to do everyday. There were a bunch of Viking players there too, but we didn't go out of our way to meet them. I was pretty excited to be able to meet Paul Allen though (he's the voice of the Vikings and has a radio show we listen to every day). We split up into about six different group and he and his son were in ours. His son wasn't too much older than Brayden, so I didn't feel totally out of place bringing him, most kids were ages six and up. I didn't bring the camera, I forgot it, so I'll just paste the website of All Pro Dads if anyone is interested.
http://www.allprodad.com/

By the way, scroll down to see my tribute to Favre's retirement.

Snowman

Wow, three posts in one day!

Anyway, it was warm enough all day that we had perfect snowman snow tonight. Brayden and I worked for a while on it, even though it won't be here tomorrow. Oh well, he had fun. Oh yeah, he named him "Snowman Nose".

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