Goodbyes

We've had a lot of goodbye's in our ward lately. It's interesting, because a few months ago, all the talk was of how fast the ward was growing and how long till we thought it would split (with subsequent sad thoughts of who we might lose).

That has given way instead to many people moving out of the ward, and moreso than the people that we expected to (finishing residency, school, etc.). We've had people move because of lost jobs or new jobs. This week we had two goodbye parties. I only have pictures of one, I will work on getting the others (hint, hint, you know who you are).

Here are a few pictures. The rest from the event are up on the picasa web album.

From Silverlake Goodbye May 30 2009

From Silverlake Goodbye May 30 2009

From Silverlake Goodbye May 30 2009

Bluebell Fun Run

Each year there is a Bluebell Fun Run. There are many people from our ward who are runners, so we had quite the turnout. It's a bit of a drive, up in Brenham, TX. It's put on by Bluebell Ice Cream (free ice cream sandwiches there) and it's for the local high school.

We got up and got going, but it was really rainy (you'll see in the video)



On our way back, we stopped to take some pictures of the bluebonnet fields.

From Bluebell Fun Run

From Bluebell Fun Run

From Bluebell Fun Run

From Bluebell Fun Run

From Bluebell Fun Run

Trip to DC this summer

Any old friends out there living in or near Washington DC? We would love to see you. This summer we are spending a month in DC. Any favorite places we absolutely have to go to?

New Computer

Anybody who checks this blog ever may have noticed that we have been MIA. (Really, was Elena ever here enough to count as being MIA though?) Our old laptop (bought in 2004) was great and has served us well over the years, but is painfully slow for doing anything of any large scale.

Well, I've been eying parts for a new computer for quite a while, so I picked them out from Newegg and put it together myself. It should be able to handle some video editing.

I was going to put the specs up, but Elena doesn't want too much information out there on the web. I told her that we don't update our blog enough for anybody to be stalking us using it.