Luke's Blog Debut

We met up with my younger brother, Luke, and his wife, Niki, for pizza tonight when we were down in their neck of the woods. I told him I wanted a picture for the blog, and he said he was excited to be making his "blog debut". Here we are at the C&J Pizza Shed, after am hour or so of attempting adult conversation while trying to make sure the kids were behaving like humans, rather than monkeys.

The reason we were out is that we needed to pick up our van from a transmission specialist who had been doing some very expensive tinkering on it over the past few days. The van actually broke down two weeks ago today, and it was a beautiful break-down, as those things go. We were bringing the van home from our regular mechanic, so we already had the extra car there and weren't stranded. Plus, Matt managed to get the van to coast safely into our church's parking lot where it sat over the long Labor Day weekend. Over the past two weeks we've been down to just our Corolla station wagon, which looks like this with two booster seats and a baby seat in the back of it. Needless to say, we've kept our driving short and to the point. (Our kids don't do well being crammed in like this.) The van's running great now and we're appreciating it like we never have before.