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so, we've had lots of fun lately. in july, i took a weekend off of my new work, and we went and had some fun. our adventure took us up to lewisville for john's surprise 40th birthday party. i didn't know half the people there, but almost our entire family was there. it was good to see them all again. here are some of the pictures from it. unfortunately, we just aren't as japanese touristy as we could be....sometimes we're a little slow with the camera, or altogether forget we have it.

one of my many home improvement projects is finally making some progress. one of our dogs got very sick, one night, and when we woke up that morning, the entire downstairs was covered in who knows how many different kinds of bodily fluids, etc. there was just no way we were going to try and clean the carpet and live with it, so we tore it all out. now, we have a wood floor going in. i was able to get a portion of the wall replaced, after dad helped me repair some roof problems, and the floor was moving along nicely. here's some before & after pics.

this morning, taylor had a youth triathalon. she had to swim 50m, then bike 1mi, then run 1/4mi. she placed 7th in her age group. we'revery proud of her, and how well she did. here are some pics and video that we got of it.

...here's a video montage i made from it...