Thursday

It's pretty much all good news at our house at the moment and for everyone all around us!

Jordan's finally feeling better and going to her first tennis lesson this morning. Jamie found a really cool tennis program that runs every day for two weeks and she'll be taught by highschool tennis coaches. Unfortunately she's going to miss three days due to illness and other things, but that's (going to have to be) ok.

Jamie took Claudia to see the new Get Smart movie last night. The little girls were bummed because they weren't allowed to go. It's PG-13, so just no way without us seeing it first. But Jamie and Claudia had fun.

Leah just turned in her thesis and she defends on July 31. You are awesome, Leah!!!

Amy has some of her photos in a gallery in Los Angeles and how cool is that?!?

Jana is updating her blog again! Wooo!!!! You should check it out.

And we're planning our trip to Texas and are super excited! We're leaving on July 11 and we've decided to drive south instead of through Illinois/Missouri/Arkansas (which, for the most part is very boring and ugly and I want my break from the midwest to start as soon as humanly possible), so we'll go through Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. I'm going to be a two-fisted bbq eater starting at noon and hey, kids, I don't care if you don't want barbeque, because that's what we're having!! We'll stop for the night and stay with Jana & Co. in Baton Rouge and then head to Texas the next morning to take the kids to the beach in Galveston. Then we'll buy some shrimp off the boat and head to my parents' house in Austin that evening.