and if you were wondering, our softball team didn't do so well and we're done for the season

some summer

Sarah and I have had a wonderful summer so far. Since we have not been giving you regular updates, I thought it would be nice to share some pictures.

We had to say goodbye to our dear friends Jeff and Sara as they left to go to Del Rio. We will miss them.


Shortly after that we went to Colorado for a long weekend to celebrate...


our first anniversary.

(the cake picture was actually taken a few weeks later--sorry I cheated).
Anyways, we had a great time in Colorado getting to see several friends and just relaxing: work had been pretty stressful before that.


Then I got promoted. Our squadron really did a great job for me.


Then we got to go to NC for a week or so on a vacation to see our families. We got to be there for father's day and managed to share dinner with everybody. Noah is gone because he is spending the summer in NY doing an AF program. He really enjoys it.

softball

Tonight our church softball team came one loss closer to the end of the year. It was the first night of the tournament. We won our first game which gave us a second game to play tonight, which we lost (to the best team). Now we're in the losers' bracket, but it was nice even to win the first game, and despite the score we didn't do so poorly in the second game either. Well, maybe I just feel that way because I did pretty well--better than usual.

Our next game is Thursday.

It has been a busy week. Our house was quite hectic with our friends over- two families and two dogs (who weren't allowed to play together). While Sugar was here though, Heidi learned not to pee in her crate when we left her, and she hasn't done it since. I think she would have been embarrassed to pee in front of another dog. Previously she had peed every single time we left her.

I have played basketball at church for a couple of Saturdays now, and it is a really good workout. The same was true today. I also worked in the yard for a while, and while our grass in the front is a bit thin, thin looks better than thin and overgrown. Now we just have to plant some flowers and bushes and it will look great.

Heidi weighed 54 pounds last time we had her weighed, so she's pretty big now. I think that she's probably close to her full height and length, but she'll probably put on a few more pounds. We threw a frisbee for her in the park tonight for the first time and she really enjoyed chasing it. She never did catch it in the air, but she'll figure that out soon enough.

We also bought a crib at a garage sale today. Sarah is very happy about that.

Also, Heidi just spun in 6 consecutive circles trying to pick up the bone that was under her foot and making her slide around.

Sarah is still looking beautiful.

We have been doing our normal thing here in Alamogordo. Our dog was spayed last week and then got infected, but now she is doing fine. Work is VERY slow for me.

We are having a bit of trouble with our lawn this year. The grass doesn't seem to be waking up for the summer, and only 1 of the 4 rosebushes that I transplanted has survived so far, and its future doesn't look so good. The flowers that we tried to plant are completely dead, and it is hard to tell that they were ever there at all. This summer the state of New Mexico is winning.

We found out last Thursday that we're going to have a girl, and we can't be more excited. I was excited all along, and our baby was a girl all along, but it is fun to know. So we are now looking for female forms of Zebulon. So far we have heard Wilhelmina and Jess. Please post any and all suggestions in the comments below where they will promptly be ignored.


In other news, we got our Oreck air purifier in the mail today. The jury is still out as to whether it actually does anything or not, but the sentence will be the same either way; we're going to box it back up within a week and send it back. We ordered it only for the free dust-buster on a stick that comes just for trying it. It's been fun, Oreck.