After of family picnic, most of us headed over to Tiffani’s for a late evening of Rock Band. In anticipation of the event, and given Asher’s poor night of sleep the previous evening, we took every precaution in anticipation of what would become a raucous event. We put Asher down to sleep in the very back of Spencer’s closet with hopes of dampening the sound of the guitar-shredding and glass-shattering vocals.

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Surprisingly, the largest disappointment of the night was not that Jill opted to do homework in the craft room while the rest of us played, but rather that when it came to be my turn to sing, I realized I didn’t recognize any of the songs!

This weekend we had the excellent opportunity to head down to Houston to see the majority of my brothers and sisters. With Mom and Dad and Tiffani already living there, in addition to Kishele and David down there for a summer internship, Rebekeh down from Indiana to visit and Brig and Stephanie in town from Austin, we all got together to enjoy a nice picnic at the park.

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We all enjoyed an excellent spread while the kids played on the playground and kicked the ball around a bit. It’s a rare happenstance when most of us together (ahem, Justin), so we were happy to be able to take advantage of it.

Last week Jill had given me the heads up that Texas State’s Distinguished Speaker Series was coming up and that this year’s featured speaker would be a personal favorite of mine, Alex Trebek. So Asher and I headed down to campus tonight to see if we could catch some of it. We ended up hanging outside the main auditorium, for fear that Asher would be a bit too noisy, but they were broadcasting it out there as well so we were able to listen to his talk.



Afterwards, we got to speak to him briefly and Asher told him ’Hello. I ate chicken and skittles!’ Alex Trebek was amused and we got to take a photo with him!

Well, it finally happened. Asher has had his first ’official’ hair cut. Jill has been persistent in asking me to get it cut, so this morning I called over to the hair cutters and they had a morning opening so Asher and I rushed out to make the appointment.



Asher didn’t particularly enjoy the experience, and I can’t blame him, I’d be upset too if someone was cutting off all my golden locks, but he’s happy to have his hair out of his eyes.

This weekend is shaping up to be a lot of fun. Mom and Dad came into town on Wednesday because Dad had meetings to attend for work, but they decided to spend the remainder of the week with us hanging out and helping us around the house. On Friday, Dad and Jill came up with the idea to invite Brig and company to head over to the park and have a nice picnic lunch.

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The park was a lot of fun and had several cool things to see an do, including a big playscape, a pond, and even a old school windmill.