BenSpark Family Adventures

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00912 Eva has a sweet new haircut. Well, she has a cut and a color. It is the Summer and time for Eva to experiment with her hair because she cannot do it during the year. This morning Allison dyed both Eva and Andy’s hair red. Then she was showing me her hair and the sides were just really long and sticking out. We decided that I’d get some clippers and trim up the sides for her. Allison and I ran out to get some things for the Cape and while we were out I picked up some clippers. When I got home I trimmed up Eva’s sides of her head. She was thrilled with how it all came out. It was incredibly hot and humid and that is why my head is melting. Andy had a cooking lesson today. It was a virtual cooking lesson with Big Y on how to make homemade mac and cheese. Andy did an exceptional job and lunch was very tasty. Dinner was also tasty. We went to the North Attleboro Farmers' Market and we were hoping for wood fired pizza but the truck was not there. Instead we had s...

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00911 I don’t have a photo of me and my buddy Frank from today but I spent the afternoon with Frank at his house helping him out with his podcast, Silver Screeners. This is a movie podcast and Frank puts a lot of time and energy into it so I wanted to help him make it as good as possible. To that, I helped him with his intro music and making a sound buffer so that he could block out sounds as he records. I talked about it in today’s vlog. The photo obviously has nothing to do with seeing Frank but rather with Andy. I asked him to clean out from under the entertainment center and he found a piece to this marble run toy that he has. He has not played with it in a very long time but once he found that piece he decided that he would immediately begin playing with it. That is what happens whenever we do a deep clean. He find his old toys and begins playing immediately.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00910 I’ve had my Xbox for about 2 years now. When I bought it I also bought a second controller so that the kids could occasionally play with me. Both controllers have been perfectly fine in that time. However, I have probably run them ragged in the past year from all the gameplay I have done. To that end both of the controllers failed on me. They each have their own issues. I detail them in this video below. Because I could not make videos with controllers that would act up out of nowhere I bought a new one. The cost of he business of play. I got the Shock Blue controller and it is really nice.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00909 Another weekend Vlog that is all about a LEGO set. This time I build the Miles Morales Spider-Man Mech Armor set. It was another typical Mech Armor build with some interesting touches specific to Miles Morales. You can see it all in the video below.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00908 I was in Big Lots and I found these cute food Pez dispensers. The Taco jumped right out at me and I had to pick it up and add it to my collection. It is adorable. They look like the foods that Andy draws when he’s doing some cutie drawings. I show them in the video below.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00907 A few years ago I picked up some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sprukits sets. I had put them away for a while and then I found two of the sets recently and I decided that I would build them for my daily vlog. Some weekends I need to create something to go up and that usually means a toy or something like that. When you sleep all day you can’t take an adventure like the one we took yesterday. So here is the assembly of this kit.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00906 Today was our martial arts graduation day. My graduation ceremony was in the morning after my Krav Maga class. We had a fun class and then the graduation ceremony began. I was the only person moving to advanced red in the ceremony and that is the last belt before a black belt. I let that sink in during the ceremony and man I have so much work to do in the next six months as I work towards being able to test for my black belt. It was a good morning. After the class one of my friends took this photo of me with my instructor, Mr. Brochu. I made my daily vlog about our day. We planned today to be a family adventure day and when I got home and took a shower we hopped in the car and headed to Hopkinton to have lunch at Snappy Dogs. We haven’t seen the ladies at Snappy Dogs in a while and it was great to spend some time seeing them. I got a Great Dane, their 1/2lb Pearl hot dog with some great condiments. Allison, Eva and Andy each got big dogs and enjoyed them very muc...