We are still around, just having the kind of summer that doesn't feel like summer except it is too hot to be anything else.  I just finished my 6 credit CNA course this week, that ran for 7 weeks, 4 days a week.  It was hard to spend most of the day Sateurday and sunday at the hospital for clinicals instead of with my family doing fun summer stuff like swimming and camping!  Now that I am "free", I am not really free.  We are expecting a new little one in January, and the doctor has put me on bedrest.  I had an ultrasound and he found a chorion amniotic separation.  It is a pocket of fluid between the amniotic sac and the uterus, and I guess could rupture and cause a miscarriage.  So, until I see the specialist and hear otherwise, here I sit.  Hopefully he will give me good news so I can finally get up and clean my house, that is very rapidly deteriorating.  Other than that, we are doing well.  The boys also love swimming, although Jackson still likes to use a lifejacket most of the time.  Conner is getting braver and braver with his doggie paddling, and thinks he can swim in the deep end.  He also just taught himself how to ride his 2 wheeler, and in spite of a few minor contusions, loves it.  Jackson is a little socialite, and knows all the kids within a 2 mile radius.  He is getting very hard to keep track of lately.  Bryce, our "baby" is 20 months now, and has quite the attitude.  He is very cute with strangers though, and will turn up the sweetness for them.  He is fun to have around, especially since he still naps 2x a day.  When not watching the boys for me, Chris is busy with his projects at work.  He is going to Portland in August to present his research at an Ecological Society of America conference.  Then, hopefully we will see some of the family at Joe's wedding! 

Where is everyone?  I have been terrible at posting, but I will try to update this at least once a week.  Most of the plans for Joey's wedding seem to be solidifying.  We'll definitely be there (just Julie and myself).  Polly, why don't you have an answering machine?  Polly was supposed to take care of the Hotel reservations or something, but due to her car accident and now, from what I heard, Lisa having a mishap on her front porch, she may have forgotten to get back to us.  I assume we have a room somewhere.  Really looking forward with seeing everyone.  Actually, I'm just looking forward to eating out...I've been really strict about my diet this year and haven't eaten out hardly at all, so it's a real treat for me to get to go to a restaurant.  Saved a lot of money that way, too.

I am now the stake physical activities director guy.  So I get to run the sports seasons and the 5k run and such.  It should be fun.  I'm also a ward missionary, well I have been this whole time, I just didn't do anything because of my other callings.  Now that I have the time, the missionaries and I have been teaching the wife of an old missionary friend of mine.  She's not a member and he hasn't been back to church in 7 years.  Weird, huh?  Anyway, I'm his home teacher and thought we should try to meet with them, and it turns out she's totally golden.  She's getting baptized August 7th.  And, he's coming back to church, with her of course.  Great experience.

Jordan and Alan have been competing in the swimming thing.  Jordan won 1st place at his last meet in the breast stroke.  He's pretty fast and I'm very jealous of his great abs.  Both he and Alan are lean racing machines right now.  Alan did fine except for the individual medley, which normally you have to be older to compete in.  He was dead last, and by about a minute.  I was proud that he did it, though, it's not an easy event.  They secretly wish they could eat ho-ho's and twinkies like their friends do, but it's good for them that Julie keeps the house stocked with good food and has not allowed any junk for years.  When they get on their own, they're going to rebel and eat all the junk food they can.  The other three children, yes I have five, are doing marvelously.  Lacey is going into first grade, while Ryan is still not old enough for kindergarten.  He just missed the cutoff.  He's a tank, that one is.  His favorite cereal is oatmeal, and asks for it over just about anything else.  Cassidy is over one year now and at that very cute stage where she can't talk at all, but walks around communicating with mutant baby talk.  

See everyone in August.