it's been a while

Yeah, I've been slacking. But that's why I'm writing now: To make up for that.

This weekend, my dad drove all the way down from new jersey to be with us for the weekend. I can't believe he found a way to fit that in his schedule, seeing as he drove down friday afternoon and left sunday afternoon without missing any of his TDY (militaryspeak for temporary duty assignment). My brother, his wife and their son are also in town. It was nice to have some of the family together for the weekend. We had a full day saturday going out to the lake on a picnic and then geocaching at a nearby trail.

As a sidenote, geocaching is our new hobby (yeah, this brings my hobby list to about 478 different hobbies). People go out into the woods and hide stuff in little containers and note the GPS coordinates on an online site. Then other people can go on the site, look up the coordinates and go hunt for the "cache." This is a game for those of us who never outgrew the hide and seek thing as a child. Yes it sounds kind of nerdy. Yes it IS kind of nerdy. Yes, Haley and I are nerds. I think we got my dad and brother's family interested in it so at least we wont be the only nerds in the world.

Haley and I are already planning on finding some caches in central america this summer.

Enough of the side note. Dad left today after eating our delicious Carrabas leftovers from last night. It was really good to see him. Our family really needs to get this whole east-coast/west-coast thing worked out so we can live close together...maybe someday.

Another quick side note: These pictures were not taken with my Nikon D200, but rather with my new phone, the W810i. With this awesome new phone (which is also an .mp3 player, 2mp camera, video camera, FM tuner, Voice recording--shall I go on?), comes new numbers. If you want them, email me.