New Beginnings

...today for both Church and Marriott families.

My folks moved into their new house in Pennsylvania today... now fully retired and surrounded by friends. They're so excited. The moving van is unloading their 21,000 pounds of 'stuff' as I write this. That's 600 lbs per year of marriage. Does anyone else feel like having a yard sale right about now?

And the Church's also had a new addition today. Sweet Lady J gave birth to a healthy baby boy today after 21 hours (gulp) of labor. Jackson Powell Church arrived two weeks early -- coming in around 7 lbs 6 oz and 20 inches (can't recall the exact measurements), but both Jana and baby are doing fine. Good thing Rob made it to Alaska last week; seems like a close call in retrospect. But everything seems to have worked out great... for those not familiar, Rob graduated medical school, sent his wife on to Alaska by plane while he finished up packing up the house and then driving the dogs and Uhaul (with help of his folks) up to Alaska to start his residency. Oh yeah, and they had a baby... in the span of three weeks. Slackers.

Happy Thursday and congratulations to all.

It's beautiful here today... blue skies, sunny & 73ish. Taryn & Paul missed all the nice weather and got rain and cold. Now they're in Montana and it's gorgeous. Too funny. Hilarious also that it's supposed to rain the day they come back through.