The Goble Family Blog: September 2009

Whitney & Sara's Special 10 Year HS Reunion

Sara and I spent Labor Day weekend together and celebrated our own special 10 Year HS Reunion! Thankfully, it had not been that long since we'd seen each other - though it had been about 3 years, which was more than enough time in my book! Now that Sara has moved to CA to work on her teaching certificate and master's degree, I am hoping we will see much more of each other. We had a great time chatting, watching girly movies, and just being together. She even let me introduce her to sushi! I think she liked it -yay!! The boys liked having Sara here too - Micah worked very hard to teach Sara her alphabet while she was here. I think you got it down, didn't you Sara? ;-)

Micah After Dentist

Early in September, Micah had a dentist appointment to have two small cavities filled. He was given an oral sedative shortly after we arrived to the dentist where he turned, well, to put it frankly, into little drunken Micah. He never actually fell asleep while under sedation, but he was floating so high that he handled everything fine and hardly knew what was going on. Perhaps Jake and I are not the best parents -- we found his behavior under sedation to be an absolute riot. I play Bunco with half of the people that work at Micah's pediatric dentist office, so maybe that made us feel a little too comfortable. I wasn't worried about him at all - he was in good hands.

We were inspired by the the "David After Dentist" video floating around the internet to try taking a few videos of Micah on the ride home -- the fillings only took about 15-20 minutes so Micah was still HEAVILY sedated for a while after we left the dentist. Poor kid. We love him. Here are a couple of the best videos. I ask that you please do not pass these around or copy them to anyone - thanks.

Visit with the Downings

Andrea, Elliott, and Baby Downing came to visit us at the end of August/beginning of September for a week. It was wonderful spending time with great friends, as always. Some highlights of the visit: We celebrated Andrea's 30th birthday with Thai food and homemade dark chocolate cake, went on a day trip to Sedona, the girl's won pinnochle (was there really any doubt!?), the Downings dominated in Settler's though Jake did win some too, we had a doubledate to Oregano's (always yummy!) and went to see "Julie & Julia" which was great, the boys were in rare form testing us all... I think I've decided that they were putting A & E through an intense week long parent training program (at least that is what I have convinced myself of to account for their behavior), Jake and Elliott abandoned Bond and worked heartily on X-Men on the XBOX, I got kicked by Baby Downing (yay!), we enjoyed a nice Saturday BBQ with some of A & E's friends from Phoenix, we tested out a cheesecake shop in town called Caked (we tried peanut butter, german chocolate, and turtle) to discover that it was DELICIOUS, and Jake joyfully broke in the contents of his homebar by experimenting with making different cocktails for us all (sans Andrea, of course, who stuck to water and tea). We had a great time! Can't wait for the next visit!