We have been working on getting things ready for Cheryl Smith’s wedding. That is why were staining decks and landscaping and getting the house put together. She’ll be having her rehearsal dinner here at the house this Friday. We also are putting our study together so Chad and I can hang out still when I start up online classes through BYU or at least all the times he’s working on the computer for fun. So we got a new desk set up and a new filing cabinet. It looks great and we’re really happy with it. It makes me happy every time I walk in the room. We don’t have papers lying on the floor like before. I walk in there all the time now.

We got a laptop finally. Last Monday morning we showed up at the store when they opened and they sold us their display model. The sale had started the day before and they had already sold all 33 laptops they had in for the sale. It was a huge blessing to be able to get the laptop for use with school and stuff.

We were supposed to go on an overnight hike with the Young Women in my old stake as chaperones, but not enough girls signed up so we got to stay home and work on the house. We ended going to this children’s theatre and watched a short little detective spoof. We had thought we were going to Gulliver’s Travels but we showed up at the wrong theater. Oops! The play we saw had been written by one of the 13-year-olds in the troop. It was good, as far as it went. Elisa and I get bored easily though, so we didn’t stay for the whole program. 🙂

My parents are building a shed. Since this is my dad’s day off we are going to go help pound in nails and put up siding. Then we’ll have Mom’s meatloaf, as requested by my younger brother Daniel who is no longer a vegetarian. Isn’t life grand?