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I really need to get another picture on here. Three in a row without pictures makes for a boring looking page. Who cares whether or not the page is actually boring, it's all about looks. If it looks cool, I can write whatever I want, but if it looks boring it doesn't matter how good a story I have.

So, I was getting the world (aka: Peter and Rachel) caught up on our events the last couple of weeks. After the last weekend I wrote about came last weekend, the Fourth. We crammed as much in on the Fourth as we could. Amy got up at 0430 to save a spot for the family for the parade. I relieved her at 0700 and she returned at 0915 with the kids. The parade was fun (I would have preferred to watch it on TV though, too much hassle). After the parade we stopped by the house briefly, rested a little, and then drove down to Springville for Amy's annual family reunion. We actually bought a bucket of KFC this year, so we fit in with everybody else (that wasn't why we did it, it was a merely a statement of cause and effect, not the purpose behind the action). Of course the kids wanted to swim, so we did. Amy didn't this year though. She was concerned that her belly would show, and since we had not announced to the family that she is expecting, she didn't want anyone to think anything, I guess. (Btw: we are expecting in January, well, we are expecting now, but we anticipate the delivery will occur in January.) Anyway, after the reunion we came home, ate some dinner eventually, and then went to Stadium of Fire with the two older kids. I got some tickets through the Navy. It was fun, but a very tiring day.

I had school this week. I was reading every hour that I wasn't sleeping or eating, or in class; just like the week before. This weekend we had a few unanticipated events. On Friday night we went to a planetarium show at BYU with some friends from South Carolina (who live in Washington now). On Saturday we had dinner with one of my chaplain candidate friends at an undisclosed location near sheep and cornfields. Today, Sunday, we went to church at Amy's folks' ward (our old ward) because her little brother returned from being a missionary this week and he spoke in church. There was the usual extended family lunch at her folks' house afterwards. That was probably more than anyone cared about though. It was peculiarly fun, as are most family events. Later in the evening we went back for an open house and Amy and I spent a good amount of time talking with her brother. Interesting stuff. Are you bored yet? See? If I had a cool picture you wouldn't care that I was just babbling on and on.