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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Coop's Birthday - Rites of Passage

Cooper David Benson is 15 years old today; I must have been 16 when he arrived! Skied all day (hard for this knuckle dragger to switch over but I had a great time).

Today, almost as important as a 15th birthday, Cooper is allowed to watch the best movie ever created - O' Brother Where Art Thou? - a rite of passage for this Benson family. Mom and I are up to around 10 or more viewings (she says less, I disagree). Additionally, he was forced into the moguls of American on Peak 9 (we have a long history on American - I dislocated my elbow on that run in 1995). He handled 'em like a champ; that's my boy!




 Mom made her famous 'butt ugly - chocolate heaven cake' in celebration:

1 comments:

Andrew Orlemann said...

There are a lot of things that could be said . . . that cake, for example, has the appearance of something that was just regurgitated by our cat . . . but I think I'll simply paraphrase Pappy O'Daniel and point out that Coop is "oh coorant" and you is past.