So what's up with us?

I have not been keeping up with the blog that well. But I've got good excuses. We have been busy! Ray got back from Miami two weeks ago. He was doing a trauma rotation there. Evidentally the Army sends their doctors there to train for how to take care of gun shot wounds, etc. and they have a lot of that in Miami. He has some very interesting stories to tell, but he's very glad to be back home. While Ray was gone we went to Louisiana for a bit.

Now that we're all back in Texas, we have been working on getting the house ready to sell. I'm going to try to do "for sale by owner," I cringe to think of a realtor taking 5-6%, but if we can't sell it, we'll have to do that. And where are we going? That's a good question. We wish we knew too. We should find out any day. Fort Polk is very likely, but it still could be Europe, or anywhere else in the world.

Gideon turned two in February and we had a Cars birthday party. He has gotten to like Cars a lot. He call Lightning McQueen "Ca Chow." Of course I think it's adorable, as is everything he does. :)

Juliette has fallen in love, with a small fuzzy creature with wiskers. His name is Earl and we brought him back here from Louisiana. He was Ben's (my brother's) cat, but Ben started to have a lot of allergy problems with him, so we inherited him. He is just about the best cat ever. Juliette drags him out from under beds, and various other hiding places, carries him around sometimes by his arms, and makes beds for him, all the while almost smothering him by pushing a pillow over his head, and he just takes it. He doesn't try to scratch. He even tries to sweep the cat litter that has fallen onto the floor back to the litter box or into a little pile. I'll have to get pictures of him. It's pretty amazing since he was a wild cat. He's still a kitten but he's getting pretty big.

Ray has been extremely busy working on his research project. When he hasn't been doing that he has been preparing for the Battan Death March. He and 4 of other third year residents, as well as a staff are going to New Mexico for it. It's a 26 mile march, so they're wearing their BDU's complete with combat boots. Being in the desert, parts of it are through sand. He's been looking forward to this for quite a while and spent a lot of time on the treadmill lately.

When I'm not repainting a deck, doing yardwork or orgainizing closets, I've been selling some stuff on eBay. It's amazing what people will spend on children's clothing...$70 on one dress! It makes me not feel so bad about by own splurges. I'm trying to make money towards getting a new camera. If I succeed, you might be getting a lot more pictures and some video on here. woohoo!

So that's life right now. I'll leave you with a Julie-ism. She wraps up all sorts of things in papers and dish towels. She brought me something yesterday wrapped in a dish cloth. She said she wanted to bring it to her friends at the church. Inside she had a cookie with a glob of ice cream on top. Needless to say, we did not bring it to church that night. Hope all of you friends and readers out there are doing well! I would love to hear how y'all are doing too. You can email us at delightnjc@hotmail.com or I'm on Myspace too. (That has been fun.) I will try to post some new pictures soon, so keep checking for them.