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Max stepped in dog poop last night, in his bare feet. It was just shortly after he drew this in the backyard:

(translation: no dogs pooping) He was pretty mad about his stinky foot. Mostly he was mad at Kris because earlier in the day he had imperiously commanded Kris to clean up all the dog poop. Kris had just done it and didn't realize there was any more. It was one of those times where the kid is so mad, but you just have to laugh.
It's especially funny since he always likes to draw dog poop and make jokes about it. Such a boy.

I got to go and be an assistant photographer for a wedding on saturday night. Our next door neighbor from our old house is a portrait/wedding photog, and she asked me to come and help out. I had a great time, learned a lot, made a little money and hopefully was as helpful as she needed me to be. I took 12 GB worth of photos. Wow. But. I was out until almost 2 on saturday night and I am SO tired now. I can barely keep my eyes open. And I have a whole bunch of sore muscles. Evidently I'm not used to crouching in funny positions for eight hours at a time. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up on my rest in the next few days. We'll see. It gets light awfully early around here these days!

We're really enjoying watching the Tour de France on TV. It's been going for about a week now. Part of the motivation for us to reobtain cable and a DVR here at our new place was the Tour. Kris loves watching it And let me tell you, the more you know about the sport and the riders the more interesting and exciting the race is. There are still a couple of weeks to go. It'll be interesting to see who wins. Everything's very interesting and controversial right now with Lance Armstrong back in the picture.

A few weeks ago I was called to teach a very difficult challenging class in primary (at church). I came to the realization that it really wasn't a one person job and asked very nicely if I could have Kris called in as my team teacher. They actually did it and yesterday we we taught together for the first time. It went so great. I'm really happy with how it's working out so far. Hopefully all continues to go well with that!

We finally found a sub sandwich place we like out here. This has improved our lives greatly. What can I say? We love subs, and the kind of sandwiches usually found out here just don't cut it. They're on hard bread with really greasy meats. Or there's subway. And I'm so sick of subway now I can't even eat it anymore. But we found this other place not too far from our house and it's great. No Planet Sub, but we're satisfied for now.
I like RI more now just because of the subs.

Max announced to me today that for his next birthday (many months away) he wants a cake featuring a German Shepherd, giraffes and "fish under the sea." Any volunteers for the creation of that one?

We have a lot of traveling planned for the next few weeks. It's too bad, we'll be leaving here just as it's getting warm enough to enjoy the beach. But oh well. We're looking forward to our trips. We're going to see the Hill Cumorah pagent with our old ward soon, then we'll be visiting family in UT and doing some other western traveling for a while. I'm really looking forward to it.

That's us, for now at least!

*Crazy-ness*

I can't believe it, but sunday was Max's last day in nursery at church. Ever.
It's about time really, because since his b-day is in February he's had to stay in nursery a year longer than a lot of kids that are a similar age. He's one of the very oldest kids in there, and by far the biggest.
One of the girls in our ward told me that when we first brought him in she thought that for sure he needed to be in primary, she thought he was like 5! That's a little bit of an exaggeration, but he is such a tall strong substantial guy that it looks funny for him to be in the nursery with all the little babies.

Here he is on his last day.
I am a little concerned about him coming in to primary though, because I'm one of the counselors in there and I often have to teach the lessons. We've had the new sunbeams in for the first few minutes of the meeting the last couple of weeks to get them used to it, and he can't stay in his chair. It's like he and I are magnets, I'm the bigger magnet, and he can only hold out for so long before the magnetism smashes him into me. I had to put him back in his chair probably 10 times in about 10 minutes on sunday, but by the end of the 10 minutes he was doing a little better.
I guess it'll just have to work out. I am glad that we'll be together, it could be really fun. I just hope he can behave, I'd love to be proud rather than be embarrassed!!
Congratulations on graduation Max, it's just the beginning! I just hope you don't miss the snacks and toys too much....sometimes growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be.