whew

everything got turned in and finished on tuesday, but i guess i needed a couple of days of down time to think to come over here and tell the world. maybe i'll do better this summer without classes. can i say it again? i'm just glad to be done. it feels like i've been going so long, but unless i kill myself with more summer classes, it'll be another 3 years (6 semesters of ~6 hours for my final 37 hours). at least it'd be paid for by work that way. any summer classes would come out of my pocket since i can only have 12 hours/year paid for.

so i'm headed to kansas city, mo this weekend. my cousin josh is graduating from high school and i don't get to their family much. the last time was three years ago when i flew out when he was awarded the honor of eagle scout. i remember talking to my aunt about how me and lindsay were excited to have kids some day. two months later we found out we were expecting. don't worry a similar chain of events won't be happening :-)

the nats are stinking and i'll leave it at that. they're still fun to follow and i'm expecting an interesting summer of roster shake-ups.

jake is doing good and is around halfway poddy trained i guess you could say. he can stay dry when he's awake. pretty much. he'll occasionally have a small accident while he's trying to get to the bathroom.

we've got a busy few weekends coming up. as i said, this weekend i'm going to kc and during that time lindsay's family will be coming up to hang out and work on a project on the house. i'll put up pictures afterwards. next weekend is memorial day weekend and my mom and charlie will be coming up to visit and we're going to get that glass door (that we bought last august the last time they were here) put up. the next weekend we're going to knoxville for a wedding of one of lindsay's high school friends. the next weekend we're going up to cincinnati and back for a party for my aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary. we hope to see lots of family and mom and charlie will probably come up the day before and leave the day after.

not long after that, we'll be going to clearwater, fl for the week of july 4th with mom, charlie, and my step-sister brooke. i can't wait to get away and clearwater is the best beach i've ever been to. my telecom classmates from senior year in college can tell you a story of me falling asleep and getting lobster-fied. "did anyone feed the gops?" good times...