quick trip to knoxville

we trucked down to knoxville saturday morning and took jake to his first easter egg hunt. the event was at my mother-in-law's work and we would've gone on down on friday evening, but we've had some really bad storms in the area. those same storms also turned the "hunt" into "grab a bag with eggs in it". i loved the part where the eggs for even kids 2 and under had tootsie rolls, gum, jolly ranchers, and laffy taffy. [/sarcasm] but seriously, the event was well run and had hot dogs (a kid favorite), face painting, an easter bunny, cookie decorating, and even a huge puppet show. it was a really fun time.

saturday evening, we just hung out and watched a couple of movies at the house. it's nice to relax with family. after church and lunch on sunday, we began our ~3 hour drive home around 2pm which "just happened" to coincide with the beginning of the nats game. i wanted to try to keep score while driving, but i preferred to stay alive.

work is going really well the past couple of work days as i'm nearing the end of a huge project that will hopefully really help the campus out.

the nats lost a close one today in 12 innings. for some reason (as a friend also noted (next to last paragraph)), the final innings when we were tied just seemed like we were waiting to lose. 3-4 sure would've been a lot better than 2-5 (especially with patterson pitching today), but hopefully our (short) homestand will be a bit of a respite for our road warriors. go nats!