It's been a long time I know, but life just kicks you in the butt sometimes. Things are going pretty good here. I'm still in school and that's taking up a lot of my time (should be studying for a test now, but I don't wanna, lol) but I'm enjoying it. Ben is doing great His gracilis transfer has been just fabulous, it's just been amazing the return we've seen from that. It was hard at the time, but I don't regret it in the least and I don't think Ben will when he's older. He just had an arthroscopic anterior release in that shoulder this past Thurs. and is casted (you can see the pics of his cast in my yahoo album http://photos.yahoo.com/annedefiance but fair warning, it's the one marked Ben's Cast, if you go to the other, it contains pictures from a "Ladies Night Out" I went to recently, hey, Mom's gotta relax every now and then, lol). He's being a little trooper, and is adjusting to his cast, after really hating it at first. Boy, I figured I'd have a lot to update ya'll on, but life around here is pretty much school and the basics Anne