Quick update

Okay, now that I'm about 3 months behind on blogging, I've decided it's time to get this all up to date again. So, what has been going on in our life lately?

1. We have callings! Seth is now the Elders Quorum President, while I've been recruited to act as the Ward Camp Specialist and Primary Secretary. So church is keeping us pretty busy these days.

2. Lots and lots of work for Seth. :( He's got some pretty big tests coming up at work so he's been putting in crazy long days at the shipyard. On the bright side, they've got a ping pong table and a swimming pool he gets to enjoy on his breaks . . . okay, it's not a HUGE bright point but every little thing helps, right?

3. We gave in and signed up for netflixs, only to discover that we're rather out of the loop about what good movies have come out lately--any suggestions? :D

4. After a year of storage, we finally got the fishtank set up. So far we've only lost one fish, but there were also two snails and a couple of "aquatic" plants that didn't make it. As a note, never trust petco for aquarium plants. I was feeling whimsical and bought a few only to look them up later and discover that nearly all of them were not water plants and would eventually die. Which they did. On the other hand, the plant I got from our tiny local pet store is growing like crazy! Hopefully it's growth will cover over the space left from the others. :-/

5. Left Cuda at home while we went down for Mary J.'s wedding and she didn't eat the neighbor girl who was watching her. Or even traumatize her too much. :) The wedding was fun and Mary looked amazing! Alex came out to do pictures for her wedding and it was awesome to see him too. :)

6. I put together a fundraiser for the girls in our ward which was . . . odd. I'm not used to being in a position of power, lol, added to which I'd never heard of girls camp fundraisers until we moved up here so the very idea seems slightly strange to me. I think it's great for the girls to put some work into going to camp so the idea makes sense to me--some of the details and restrictions not so much. Anyways, our service auction made about 2/3s of what we needed which I thought was pretty good all things considered, but we did have a few problems that cropped up that we'll need to adjust for next year if we do this again.

7. Seth mowed the lawn! Okay, maybe it doesn't seem like that deserves an exclamation mark, but once you realize that the lawn hadn't been mowed since we moved in it becomes a much bigger deal. Cuda does her best to eat the grass down but we seriously had a jungle in our yard. As in, Seth told me about a baby bird that fell into our yard and he couldn't find it because it was hiding in the grass.

8. Oh, and then there's the death of my laptop. :( Apparently pulling on the cord is a no no--Seth chopped up the cord and rigged it so it kind of works now but it's pretty crazy. However, since it's been getting increasingly quirky to the point of annoyance, I now have a new desktop mac that I'm loving. The only downside so far is that it doesn't fit in my desk so at some point (probably around the some day when we get the downstairs fixed up) I'll have to find a different desk. In the meantime, it's living on our dinning table which is just a tad odd.

9. Seth actually likes our dog. Let's be honest here, he wasn't a huge fan of the dog idea initially and had some valid concerns about it. Now . . . well, sometime here I'll have to get video of them playing when he comes home from work. It's pretty hilarious. And there there was the time we were watching a movie together and he switched from the couch to the floor to be next to the dog because Cuda was giving him sad eyes (and had been for the last 20 minutes to be fair. And she's pretty amazing at doing the sad puppy dog eyes). Need I say more? :P

10. Hmm, well, I feel like there should be a ten . . . ah, Seth finally got the garage cleaned up enough to get started on building his workbench. He's fairly excited about it and has been working on it in the bits of spare time he has these days and it's coming along pretty nicely.

Well, I think this covers at least a good portion of what's been going on. I'm probably forgetting at least one or two things that should be on here but since I'm going to be better about updating for at least the next while, lol, maybe I'll catch them next time.