10 on tuesday

1. Thanks to UNC, I once again beat Jared in the NCAA tournament brackets.

2. Jace and I enjoyed a week long road trip with my mom to visit family in Idaho, Washington and Vancouver, BC. Jace was a suprisingly good traveler and had a great time playing with cousins (all boys close to his age).

3. Because of our road trip I have two episodes of Lost to catch up on before tomorrow night.

4. General Conference was great, as always. And I love that I got to watch it in HD (seriously, it makes a difference) on my comfy couch.

5. Jared's mission reunion was this past weekend. We enjoyed a light Brazillian meal and lots of catching up with old mission buddies. It had been about 3 years since the last one we were able to make it too. It was a great night.

6. We got Jace a pet goldfish which he named Nemo. On the way home from the store he told us, "When I get home, I'm gonna eat this fish!"

7. Jared's work celebrated their 20th year anniversary with a party for all their employees. They gave away some nice gifts and treated us to good food and games. At the party there was a ping pong tournament. Jared walked away as the champion.

8. Along with the nice gifts they gave each employee a new bag (small carry on suitcase). Jared has been recieving free bags for about 5 years now, from football, conferences and now work. And most of them are Ogio. Needless to say, we have more bags than we could probably ever use but of course we can't get rid of them because they all mean something.

9. Saturday I attended a lecture by Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods. It was excellent and so is the book. Definitely an issue that needs to be taken more seriously amongst parents and children.

10. A couple of things that have inspired me lately: this blog post and this create video. Seriously, they are both worth your time. And I watched two really great movies this past week: Marley and Me and Bedtime Stories.

Happy Tuesday!

Idea for 10 on Tuesday came from this blog.