Murder.

I know I talk about them a lot but they are my family so... deal wit it. Ann and John are gone all the time. This week they are in Hawaii so I am tag teaming the supervising with Ben Camp (another nephew). Claire and Aaron are the kids on the right in this photo. I love them with my whole heart. Aaron is the sweetest child I have ever met. I wish you all could meet him. He is a genius but always seems to be working in slow motion. He speaks in a mono-tone voice and is seriously NEVER in a hurry. Claire is the complete opposite. She talks a million miles a minute and is involved in 1,001 things all the time. They take such good care of each other.

I just made Claire a birthday dinner tonight and Aaron said he wanted to make her a cake all by himself. She requested carrot cake. Unfortunately the All Star game is on right now and it has taken his full attention. Here is the conversation I just heard from the living room:

Claire- "Aaron, make my cake!!"

Aaron- "I will. I will."

Claire- "Di said to use Bertas recipe because it has pineapple in it and she said it makes it moist."

Aaron looks at the recipe

Aaron- "Oh my gosh there are so many ingredients! Ugh.."

Aaron watches more of the basketball game

Claire- "Aaron!! Start making it!!

Aaron- "I will."

Claire- "Aaron hurry! We want to eat cake tonight!!"

Aaron looks at the recipe for a while

Claire- "Please let Riana help you, this is going to take you forever."

Aaron- "NO!"

5 minutes later Aaron is grating carrots on the couch

10 minutes later he is still grating carrots on the couch

Aaron- "...This sucks!"

Unless you are my family, you may not appreciate that but it had me laughing pretty hard.

Friday was a funny day. I bought Ryan tickets to go see Murder By Death. Seeing them live was on my bucket list. I introduced them to Ryan a couple months ago and he said he liked them, he may have just been humoring me but that was good enough for me. I printed out the tickets and looked at the address of the venue-- Bar Deluxe 666 S. State Street. What the wha?... 666?! I took him straight into the devils lair to see a band called Murder By Death. Ha ha. Good times.

I'm not exactly sure why I look like a deer in the headlights, but I do. I'm fairly confident that we were the only sober people in that bar. Hearing them play Brother was absolutely wonderful. I could have gone home happy if that was all they played, but they played a great set.

Their Cellist is incredible.

Life is good. 11 days till Germany. 2 1/2 months till New York. Summer is coming. Gladys is funny. The Piano is rocking my world. My life is filled with people I love.

Peace out.