Just a quick note today:

We were naughty and didn't go to church today. We planned to, had the best of intentions, but then Brianne informed us that we were needed to attend an Army National Guard Picinic today that her company was having at a local park. This was her drill weekend, so it was mandatory attendance for her, and her family was invited to attend as well... Being invested parents/family members, we decided to go with her as the day was gorgeous, the weather inviting, and a picinic sounded like fun! We had a good laugh as Aurora looked at her dad and asked "why all Army food was so bad..." It wasn't *that* bad, quite honestly: Hamburgers, spagetti, assorted chips, sodas and water, cake... There were guys tossing a football around, kids with wiffleballs and bats, lots of little ones running around the play ground, and even a dunk tank to dunk the commander (he and another guy were both good sports when Cliff and Rei dunked them numerous times--you bought balls as a fundraiser to toss). Eric and the kids climbed a tree (and got scraped up in the process), and I knitted and visited with a couple of lovely young women who were there. Eric and I even took a walk along the walking trail (about a half-mile long) and that was really nice.