Kevin&Stephanie

Steph and I decided to take a little trip to Las Vegas, and we invited the Mercers to join us. We left around noon on Tuesday, and so we didn't get to the resort tell about 4:00. The insanity of Las Vegas basically struck us right away. As soon as we pulled in we saw a lady who appeared to be rather drunk and in a bikini draping herself all over this guy in the car right next to us. Weird. Well, we couldn't get into our room until 5, so we were forced to just kill some time. We walked around the resort for a bit, just kinda checking it out, then we decided to kill the last 40 minutes by going to the bar by the pool for happy hour. We ordered some drinks and some appetizers. Lo and behold, they gave us the wrong appetizers. But who did they mix us up with? The crazy lady from the parking lot. So Jeff went over to reclaim our food, and had an awkward conversation with the clearly drunk lady, who seemed to be buying rounds for everyone and just being generally awkward. By the ti...

Today is Tracie's birthday. ...the big 21. I wish I could celebrate with her, but for now I'll just wish her a happy birthday, and looking forward to seeing her in a few weeks! By this picture, you can really see how much I've always loved Tracie...I even dressed her up like kid sister. :)

Today, Steph and I went up the Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs with Ashley and John Herr. For those of you who don't know, Ashley is a friend of mine (Kevin) from Youth Group back at New Covenant in middle and high school. Ashley and her husband were in 'So-Cal' (I'm so hip...using terms like 'So-Cal') for a wedding. I saw on Facebook that they were in Palm Desert, which is only about 45 min. away from us and proceeded to mention this fact and Ashley suggested we do something as they were not on any sort of tight schedule. Very random, and very unexpected, but nonetheless quite enjoyable! (This was the first time in probably 6 or 7 years that we had hung out. Yeah yeah, she was at our wedding, but that totally does not count as 'hanging out'.) Yeah, it's a pretty crazy climb. Not at all for the feint of heart. At one point half way up the mountain, Jaws came and tried to bite through the cable. John and I had to climb on top of the tram car and wre...