We had a new experience last night as we traveled down to Chandler for "Tool Time" for Benjamin. I guess you could call it a bridal shower only for the groom to be. Everyone that came was from either Caitlin's family or from Ben's. You brought a gift that Ben could use to help fix up around the house, hence the title "Tool Time". Ben is opening some of the great gifts he received and Caitlin is writing down who gave them.
When we started Ben and Caitlin had to introduce each others family members that were there. Unfortunaltely Ben did not have as many from his family there, but they will be there for the wedding. David, me, Katie, Kevin, Ryley, Ben, Olivia and Aaron were Ben's support. Caitlin on the other hand had probably thiry plus people there. Ben named at least 90 percent of them. He has truly found a great family to belong to.
As the night progressed Ben had to show how good of a handy man he could really be in a pinch. So they had him nail ten nails into a 4x4 piece of wood as fast as he could. Everyone wrote down how long they thought it would take him. The winners were his dad, David, and Cailtin's mom, Jeanette. It took him 2 minutes and 34 seconds. Take a look at the video. It was my first time doing a video so I hope to get better each time. When Ben was doing this he was actually making sparks fly, even though you can not see it on the video. ENJOY!!
The next video shows how much Caitlin's family has excepted him. How many guys do you know that have their own song or ballad sung to them by the mother, aunt and sister of Caitlin. Ben has truly found the love of his life and we are so very happy for him and Caitlin!!!!
Ryley, Ben and Olivia had a great time and fit right in with the rest of the children. At the end before everyone left we played a game called the hat game. It is like musical chairs only you stay standing and everyone has on a hat but one and when the music starts you walk in a circle and take off the hat of the person in front of you when your hat is taken. When the music stops the person without a hat is out of the game. Of course this is a not contact game, right, it becomes a knock down, drag out fight to make sure that you have a hat, at any cost, when the music stops. These are some of the pictures.
As you can see we had a very enjoyable evening.
