Birthday on Quarantine

Today... well yesterday was my niece Hannah's... 12th birthday? Anyhow, the whole Laneri family and myself are all down with the swine flu... I for one have to say that tonnights birthday was an awsome one... The day started out kind of slow, I had to turn in my rental truck from the move, and get new tires on my ride, and get my saftey inspection up to date on the old Maxima... While I was waiting for that to happen I wondered in to hobby lobby to puruse for a decent gift for Hannah. I stumbled across a toy I knew I thought was pretty cool when I was 'about that age'. The simple yet entertaining gyroscope. The amazing top that defies gravity as it balances upon a string or twirls around your finger in a most precarious way. Not cool? Ok, mabey I'm easily amused. I think the toy made it about 2 hours before I snapped the rip cord on it... :( doh! But for 7.95 I think it was a pretty cool hit, all it needs is a new string. So we all had some Laneri gormet' style bacon cheesburgurs while Audra came around to check all our temperatures... All of us celebrating a Birthday with the swine flu... Definetly going into the memory banks. John and I, well John mostly played some new games with Hannah, and I got to goof around with Alex inventing a new game in the drive in front of the house... kind of a cross between tennis and vollyball, that was a hit for awhile until the neighbor kindly told us to take it inside. Once the little ones (hannah and sophia) were off to bed, Alex and I watched some thunder heads roll towards dallas and exchanged some fun memories of our seperate adventures with 'Gram-Gram' and 'Bah-Bah' in Alaska. Tonight I realized my most important reason for being home. Family, and love, something that there was just no substitute for being so far away. I so look forward to the next family adventure... I would most definetly like to talk the fam into going to enchanted rock. Get in some rock climbing there.

Beaming about being back home in Texas...

-Nate

My first blog

Dont know if I'm going to use this site yet or not, but the ability to post photos with my mobile phone cam sounds pretty awsome... MySpace will still be my main page but Ill be sure to make a link to here!