Moving To Texas

Most of you have already heard, and for those that haven't...its true. We're moving to Texas. Jennifer and I have been thinking about this for a long time now. We have loved living in Livermore. Our ward has been great, we've made lots of friends, and its been nice to be near my family. With the move, we'll be moving back towards Jennifer's family and we're both looking forward to that.



Anyone interested in some furniture? =) We've been lightening the load as much as possible. We're only going to take with us our bed, my favorite coffee table, and a chest. We'll put those items and some boxes on truck that is going to ship our stuff for pretty cheap, just a couple hundred dollars. The rest we'll stuff into our cars and head east...ish. We'll be stopping in SLC for a wedding of a buddy of mine and to see some of our friends.

So, two cheers for Livermore. Hooray! Hooray! I think the one thing we'll miss most is our friends. We've had some great ones here. It would have been easy to stay and be happy with those friends and spend weekends and holidays together. But, timing is everything. And its time to go.

Secret Date Night

Jennifer LOVES spontaneous surprise activities...and she hates them. Often I can tell that she has the itch to do something fun and unexpected. But, at the same time she knows she'll be at risk for not knowing EXACTLY whats going on that night if she wants to be surprised. Sometimes this is hard for her. So its a balance of surprise with moderation.

Monday night we drove off towards San Jose without her knowing where we were going or what we were doing. The only clues that I gave her were that 1) we'd be indoors, 2) it was exactly 29.5 miles from Livermore, and 3) the following text because she was dying for more clues: "Not earth or water."

We arrived in Union city and Jennifer wanted to go to Chilis. Here is a picture of Jennifer and her new hair cut. She is adorable. Unfortunately, the food was only mediocre that night and her parting comment was, "That was the worst $19.36 we've spend in a long time."

Luckily there was Krispy Kreme shop near by to easy our pains.



After that it was onto the secret date location.





I-Fly is an indoor skydiving experience. Its a vertical wind tunnel that controls the flow of air over about a 15-foot diameter tube. We showed up early and watched others fly and tried to practice our moves outside. I should say I tried to practice outside. Jennifer told me to stop waving my hands in the air because people were staring. Don't worry...it paid off in the tube.





The flying only lasted for about two minutes, consisting of two one minute flights. But watching everyone else fly was fun too. When we combo-flew with the instructor, we flew about twenty feet high in the tunnel. Most of the flight was spent at about five feet or so. It turned out to be a great family home evening activity. I told Jennifer she could plan the next surprise date. Hmmmm...I wonder what it'll be???!

I can't wait.