We FINALLY have Internet!!

This morning the Time Warner Cable man finally came and hooked up our internet. A lot of things have happened since we last posted. We went to Indonesia for two weeks and then we went to Snowflake, Arizona for the Boone family reunion. We came back to Utah for one week and I finished my job at Utah State Developmental Center. (I've worked there for the past year as one of the building nurses.) We moved to Irving, TX on August 4th. Moving into our house has kept us busy for the past three weeks. Joseph started medical school August 17th. He is very glad he picked UT Southwestern. The school continues to impress him. We were surprised to discover that 7 other BYU students were in his class of 237 (8 total). This is an even more impressive statistic when you consider the fact that only 10% of his class consists of people from out-of-the state!! We will provide more details about all these events, but we are currently lacking pictures as Father Muhlestein has them all on his hard drive.

IT'S A BOY

We found out yesterday that we are having a boy, or a man-child as Joseph likes to call him. Joseph and I both guessed it was a boy because my mother, who is notorious for guessing wrong, thought for sure it was a girl. Our son is due to make his appearance still in mid-October. Now we have begun to seriously discuss what to name him. If anyone has a good name suggestion, please let us know. Just to warn you, Joseph wants the boys to have four names--a first name, a middle name, Wells (my maiden name), and then Muhlestein (i.e., John Doe Wells Muhlestein). Hopefully, this won't scar the child too much.

Next time you are thinking about building your mansion on the side of a very steep hill...

Let their be light

I have been working on putting an outlet and lights into the family gazebo and recently finished the project. In the end, I ran about 140 feet of sealed conduit from the house, up the hill, and into the gazebo. I'm curious now to see if it actually gets used or not.

A GPSer's worst nightmare

If you've ever used a GPS, you know that you need your antenna to have a view of the sky. Needless to say when I turned the corner onto this street, I realized I was in for a long survey. For those who haven't heard , the city water department offered me a job for the month and a half between school and summer vacations, so I am back to changing meters, GPSing their location, and anything else that has to do with water meters.

Germans in Training

Harry and Clara celebrated their German heritage at a great German restaurant in Columbus Ohio.

Texas or Bust! (or both)

We made it almost to Moab before our seriously overloaded trailer started to complain unignorably.

Elder Block is India Bound!! (via Provo of course)

John, Joseph's cousin is headed to Bangalore India and we were both able to wish him well as he entered the MTC.