Suh-WEET!

MUTE MATH just released their '09 Tour, and they're making a stop at People's Court in Des Moines on Oct 1st!

They're also playing the House of Blues in Chicago on Oct 18th, and the Orbit Room in Grand Rapids, MI on Oct 20th.

A MUST-SEE SHOW!

Kiddo is now the size of a bell pepper and has grown Holly's belly enough to show a bit of a bulge. Pants don't fit well anymore. But the morning sickness is now starting to subside...only a few rough, vomitous mornings per week.

Tthe time has come to find out if Hols is cookin' a boy or girl; the genitals are now in place and noticeable. Our ultrasound appt has yet to be scheduled, though, some time at the end of the month. Since Week 2 Hols' confidence still stands that she's growing a baby boy, but we'll see.

Hols and I camped with our small group at the Coralville reservoir last night. some broke out the camo...

but everyone broke out the foil meals...

...including corn on (soon to be 'off') the cobb...

...and steamed salmon and zucchini and squash. Hols did an amazing work with this food.

Bryan and Betsy with their meals...

then it started raining...Thaddeus checking the radar courtesy of his iPhone...and it didn't look good...

s'more-making...improvised.

but we kept the fire roaring, otherwise the cool rainy night would've stuck us in our tents all night.

after an all-night rain, I went for an early-morning hike and discovered year-old evidence of the Flood of '08.

this pathway staircase was washed out after water overran the reservoir spillway.

the fossil gorge immediately proceeds the spillway...


camp breakfast ROCKS...bacon, eggs, pancakes, fresh coffee, OJ, grapes...

Found this guy paddling down the road shoulder this afternoon...

Really cool interview here with 88-year-old Mayor Hazel McCallion, who has been in office for 31 years and runs a debt-free city. And she still plays HOCKEY! "Not bad, eh?"

This is such a great commercial. Here's to the Wings doing exactly this TONIGHT!

It's now been one year since the '08 Flood devastated our church building...


...but the church itself overcame, and, six months later, we re-garrisoned the building. Really amazing GOD story.