Go Benedictine Ravens!

We just returned from Ben's first vacation. We left Saturday morning for Atchison, KS..home of Benedictine College's most famous Basketball Chaplain, AKA Great Uncle Hugh Keefer, and name sake of Benjamin Lewis Shaffer. (Lewis was Uncle Hugh's given name). We enjoyed a great game of basketball, they led for most of the game, but lost in overtime. This year Sam only needed one bag of popcorn, and one bag of M & M's to sit through the game. He was very proud of his Raven tatoo. Sam was excited to learn that it is acceptable to yell as loud as possible at a basketball game.

Uncle Hugh is the chaplain of the basketball team, and prays with the team in the locker room before the game, and also prays before the start of the game. According to the coach, his responsibilities are for him to set at the end of the bench, and the coach sits at the other end, unless things start to go bad, then they change positions. It almost looks as if Uncle Hugh is offering up a prayer in this picture.

Ben is showing his reaction to his first mass. Much to his mother's paranoia of one of Ben's famous crying/screaming fits, we decided to try mass. With much rocking and constant replacing of the pacifier into the mouth, we made it through without any peeps. We had a great time hanging out with Uncle Hugh, and of course sleeping in Room #2. No pictures of the room this time, but Sam probably slept the best, the rest of us were working on keeping Ben from waking up the rest of the hallway with his strong vocal chords.