Getting ready for Australia

It's been a pretty busy couple of weeks. My mom came out to visit Utah. My parents had been thinking of buying a home out this way to eventually retire too...and they picked one out. Looks like they will close on the house next Tuesday. In the meantime, my mom has been going back and forth between my sister's apartment, my house, and our friends' home (Kay and Henry).

Ade and I bought some items for our trip over the weekend. We even got a couple of suitcases to make sure we had some of the right size (thanks to mom and dad buying one of the two). We leave on our trip Thursday and we can hardly wait. We'll try to post activities and photos as often as possible while we are gone.

Weekend Updates

Jason's mom left on Sunday. She stayed in Denver last night with friends and has left for Missouri this morning. It was great having her stay those couple extra days. She was kind enough to help out with some weeds around the house and clean up the garage some. We even got to go play tennis with her on Saturday. She helped Jason with his serve and hit a few with Adrienne. We hope that we'll be able to go out and visit Jason's mom and dad in Missouri soon.

Well BYU squeezed out a victory against the University of Washington. It was a lot closer than I thought it would be, but I'm satisfied with the victory. We hadn't won against a non-conference team on the road in a few years, so we needed to start somewhere. Everyone is talking about a celebration penalty at the end of the game instead of the blocked PAT which is disappointing. You know you are in Utah when a General Authority for the LDS church references the BYU game the next day in Regional Conference.

So we are done with the adoption workshops and now we just need to finish the online profile at itsaboutlove.org. It's taking longer than we wanted, but we feel it's important to do it right.