Regression

I did pretty well the first half of the week. I woke up at or BEFORE 5am. Got up, got moving. Today, not so much. Sigh.

Last night I went to the "Movies in the Park" with the young women (query: was this my last YW activity?). The entertainment didn't start until dark....and it was 20 minutes away, in Snohomish. I was happy when it was decided that we had been there long enough at around 10:30. After dropping off 7 young women I got home around 11pm...Steve was still up watching Olympics...then prayer, then getting ready for bed, reading....ummm....it was about 12:15am when I turned out my light. I didn't get out of bed this morning until about 7:30am.

Yes, I slept in.

I Found It!

Dear Husband (aka Steve) has been a little stressed out for the past couple of days. After coming home from a week of shaveless camping he manfully shaved off his 6 day old beard and then discovered or rather didn't discover the charger for his rechargeable razor. Oops. His razor usually lasts a week or so after being plugged in and charged up. He's been wracking his brain trying to remember where he last used it (in the meantime having to go without shaving due to lack of charge).

Did he take it to Salt Lake with him and leave it there?
Did he take it to Portland and leave it at Tia's house?
Did he have it in the van while we were camping?

Questions, questions.

I prove yet again my superior lost and foundage. Lost and findability? Lost and founded?

Whatever...I found it.

Proud Parenting Moments

Highlights of proud parenting moments:

• birth of child
• child sleeps through night
• first tooth
• weaning
• walking
• potty trained
• really potty trained
• preschool
• 1st grade
• learn to read
• baptism
• learn to ride a bike
• learn to drive
• graduate from high school
• go on mission
• ask a girl out on a date

Nathan has arrived. He has a date. A real date. With a nice girl.

The crowd goes wild.

Where's Title IX When You Really Need It?

Okay, Title IX wasn't really all about girls getting equal opportunities to play sports in school- but it sure seemed that way. I feel that it was probably a pretty good thing in general as far as addressing some of the problems with gender discrimination in the public school system (Who wanted to take 3 years of Home Ec? Not me).

I've been watching as much of the Olympics as I can (start humming....I love technology...), having a DVR has been quite wonderful - not just skipping commercials, but also skipping boring sports like basketball. One other way we use our DVR is to fast forward through the women's beach volleyball. Yeah.

Why is it that the men's beach volleyball uniforms look like normal sports attire (see picture above), while the women are pretty much "nakedish". Okay, not naked, but come on - do they really need to be wearing bikinis to compete? Not only is it unnecessarily immodest, but bikinis offer so many more opportunities to get sand in places that might chafe. I say, give the girls at least a t-shirt. Seems like discrimination to me - but let's not get out of hand. I'd hate to have anti-discrimination work the other way. Guys in bikinis are MUCH worse than girls in bikinis.

Happy Birthday, Marcy!

Sorry I haven't sent you anything for your birthday yet. I plead a case of being on vacation. I hope you love being 50 years old. Love it. After all, that's where I'll be next year...

Happy Birthday, sis.

Let's not forget that this is Mom's birthday too - let's do the math....hmm...you were born on her 19th birthday, you are 50...50 + 19....I guess she would have been 69. Happy birthday, Mom.

Resetting my internal clock.

I decided a couple of weeks ago that as soon as we got back from vacation I would try and reset my internal clock for "seminary time". It's not so much that I need to get up way earlier, it's that I need to get up a little earlier AND be coherent. Yeah. Anyway, last night I was sort of getting ready for bed around 9pm - so far, so good. I had been doing some research for seminary on my computer and I accidentally came across this blog. Wow. I didn't get to bed for nearly another hour and a half.

I now have a new favorite phrase to describe Fast and Testimony meeting. "Open mic Sunday".

New phrase to describe Utah - "behind the Zion Curtain".

Vacation Photos, day 5

August 8th
7 miles of assorted hiking/walking - mostly at or near Bonneville Dam, including the hatchery.

Jonah taking a gander at the dam.

Not quite sure what Daniel is looking at, but Brady and Alex are trying to help.

Salmon swimming upstream.

The boys and Herman the sturgeon.