Happy Halloween Everyone From Hunter The Lion!

Why Jeanine Doesn't Sleep

Here is how Wednesday went:

• 7:20am: Drop off Hunter at daycare, hurry to pick up Laura
• 7:40: Pick up bagels
• 8:05am: Arrive at work; delegate set-up of Agency's Pumpkin Carving Contest
• 9:15am: Meeting #1
• 10-12: Field phone calls/attempt to get desk organized
• 12-1: Meeting #2
• 1:15-3: Cancel Meetings #3 and 4 in hopes of getting some work finished
• 3-4:30: Meeting #5
• 4:30-5:35: Meeting #6
• 5:40-6:05: Grab Laura and race to daycare to pick up HWB
• 6:10: Arrive at home and greet baby-sitter
• 6:20-6:35: Frantically race around house trying to get dressed for high-class affair at MGM Grand (Detroit Steakout); forget to tell sitter Hunter is now drinking Whole Milk only
• 6:40-7:05: Race down 75, miss the exit for the Casino, somehow end up on the Lodge, turn a 10-minute turnaround into 2 minutes, pass 2 extremely old biddies on the up-ramp at the MGM (they deserved it), screech into a parking spot and adjust hair whilst running to affair
• 7:10pm: Answer work call on escalator
• 7:15pm: Wine in hand, enter event
• 10:25pm: Pull up to ATM, question why baby-sitters don't accept credit/debit cards
• 10:47pm: Arrive at home, interestingly enough Hunter has decided to wake up
• 10:50pm: Try to undress while Brad entertains an extremely grumpy Hunter
• 11-11:40pm: Get smacked in face by Hunter while sitting in his chair in the dark -- he isn't interested in sleeping
• 12:05am: See video below

Carving Out A Good Time

For the past week I've been overseeing the Agency's Inaugural Pumpkin Carving Contest and would be lying if I said it hasn't been a total, smashing success. Here's a snapshot of what you get when Creative ad execs spend their lunch hour carving pumpkins:

The white pumpkin is actually a 'Donor' pumpkin (play on my company's name, this gourd has donated all his time/energy/effort to working at Doner).

Here is the one Laura's team created on behalf of the Expedia Client -- by the way, the pumpkin has landed on and 'killed' the Travelocity gnome:

Pumpkin sushi platter -- I watched these guys hand 'roll' all of the sushi themselves from the guts of the pumpkin:

One of our Agency's Clients is Serta mattresses so we had a lot of Serta sheep entries:

And finally, one of my favorites -- a pumpkin pictoral of former Mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick behind bars:

YUM!

This week's menu:

• Sunday: Leftovers
• Monday: Chicken Sausage and Bean Casserole with Sage (soooo good!)
• Tuesday: Leftovers
• Wednesday: Steak Out Dinner Event at MGM Grand <-- Mrs. Hillary comes to hang out with HWB!
• Thursday: Egg and Proscuitto Paninis
• Friday: Halloween! Sausage and Musroom Penne Gratin
• Saturday: Crabmeat Ravioli with Red Clam Sauce

When Hunter Says No...

Hunter can now say 3 words. Their monikers and his baby translation are as follows:

• hi: 'heh'
• bye: 'bah'
• uh-oh: 'uh-uh'

But it's what he does when someone says the word 'NO' to him that really makes you smile. Take a look:

The Inaugural Bobenmoyer Chili Cook-Off!

Last Saturday... total blast. The Nevilles, Serdas, Stropps, Pinnells and Corneliuses indulged us in the Inaugural Bobenmoyer Chili Cook-off.

As you can tell by the above menu, there was some serious spice kicking it in the house and the Tums were readily available after our tastings. We had 5 dishes to choose from and some cornbread to help soak up all that chili goodness... after 2 failed attempts at fancy recipe cornbread, Sandra/Katie and I relented and ran to the market for a box of Jiffy Mix. (It was spectacular). After it was said and done though, Heath and Dee's Texas Cold Beer Chili was declared the winner (Bo and Sandra took 1st Runner Up).

The Grand Prize award was the love and company of a spotted border collie named Beckham but strangely enough, was left behind when they parted... will have to ship him to the Stropps first chance I get. Here are Heath and Dee basking in the glory of their victory:

I know! Heath has really changed his look since you saw him last! Either that or they were on their way to a costume party following the ICCO and were dressed as characters from Dazed and Confused. Naturally this lead to some whisky drinking before the night was over...

We also enjoyed some hillbilly golf in the backyard and watching HWB's curls blow in the wind. He's really hamming it up for Aunt Katie's camera in this photo:

The night ended with a drum solo from Neighbor Dave. We think he secretly is pulling for Hunter to become a drum fanatic as evidenced by this photo... remind me to tell him we once kicked around the name 'Bonham.'

I'm demanding the Texas Cold Beer Chili recipe. Stay tuned!

It's Been A While

... and for that, I apologize. It's been an extremely hectic few weeks with my account in planning for 2009 and all. I don't think I've ever experienced such a crazy planning session as this!

I have a lot of updates: Announcing the winners of our Inaugural Chili Cook-Off last weekend, showing off some pics of HWB in his very first Halloween outfit (today was the annual Halloween party at Brad's work) and more, but first, I owe many of you the opportunity to see Hunter on the move.

HWB is no longer containable -- he's a menace to society and uses every bit of it to his advantage. Shot this little video with our digital camera tonight as he was tearing around the house. He's definitely become MUCH faster in the past 3 weeks! Enjoy and stay tuned for more!

The Neville Baby

No, Eric and Laura aren't having a baby, but if they did little Neville would look like this...

Wondering how I came up with this? Received an eBlast from Oddcast yesterday bragging about the new Babymaker3000 program found on the VW.com Web site. Check out and have some fun of your own! http://www.vw.com/vwhype/babymaker/en/us/?mId=28267344.

It's Wednesday, Which Makes Me Wish It Were The Weekend

Take last weekend for example: Another fun time in the Bobenmoyer household.

Friday: Brad and I put Little Man to bed and caught up on our movie viewing with Forgetting Sarah Marshall. In a nutshell, blah. And surprising given it was coming from Judd Apatow -- typically we find his efforts pretty funny but this one seemed like it was written by the machine and definitely 50 minutes too long. At least we've seen it and can cross it off the list but if one wants to debate the better part of the plotline with me... I'm out. But let me definitely mention that Brad surprised me by making the most delectable, amazing, mouth-watering lobster macaroni and cheese EVER. Laura came over on Monday night to help me devour the leftovers.

Saturday: Let's just say I'm petitioning the new President to officially expunge Saturday, October 11, 2008 from the record. And if you have anything to comment on perhaps a football game that hypothetically would have taken place that day, please refer to my aforementioned REALLY?! commentary. E and Laura came over for dinner and to help distract me by throwing in Iron Man to watch. Not bad!

Sunday: BDB's 32nd bday kicked off with a trip to pick out our pumpkins at Miller's Big Red. HWB had a blast! And if you like this picture, you'll love the 8 others it took to capture this exact pose of our little Squirmy Worm. ;)

This little 'Stinkerpot' face as I put it is definitely HWB's clever, I'm-too-cute-so-don't-look-while-I-stick-my-toys-in-the-garbage-can act he's putting on lately. But with that scrunched up nose, who can resist?

We left Hunter with Miss Lyssa and hit Royal Oak for some football viewing and beer drinking (some of us more than others, ahem Bradley Douglas!). Had a nice turnout to celebrate Brad's bday though and ended the night with some sliders and chocolate malts at Comet Burger in the RO. Even Hunter joined us for that part!

Well, it's late and I should try to catch some zz's while I can. It's Planning Month on my account right now and it is quite the energy zapper. :P Love to you all!

Picasso HWB

Nope, I didn't do anything special... this Picasso-ish pic of HWB is courtesy of my crazy iPhone.