Our First Blog Post!!!

Greetings from the best damn city in the world,

We wanted to take a little bit of time to update you guys on our amazingly interesting lives. Just give us a second to think of something worth writing about . . . . Okay. First we'll start with Natalie. Over the summer she went on a mission trip to Mexico and a Youth Convention in San Antonio. She had a really amazing time and somehow ended up committed to even more youth stuff than she was already. This will come in handy to kill all that free time that she had:)

When Nat returned from the SW she started up in private practice. Things started a little slow, but they have really picked up. The thing that she is most excited for in life, other than our vacation next month, is the start of 90210 tonight!

The thing that has been dominating John's life of late is Australian Rules Football with Ryan. With almost six hours of practice each week and a game every two weeks, Natalie has to look at pictures to remember what he looks like. As a side note, Ryan is really playing well. He has been named the best player in one of the games and people have been saying how great he has played.

Other than that, John has just started school again. His schedule is really light this year, and with an offer for a job next summer, the motivation scale is tilting towards zero.

Greta is doing fabulously. She is seven months old and about seventy pounds. She back-talks like a teenage girl sometimes, but overall is a great dog. She has developed her big dog bark and has all the bad guys in the neighborhood on notice.

We had a great weekend this last weekend. OSU rolled as expected in their game, and we really capitalized on our Monday. We took Greta to Antrim Park to wade in the lake. She thought about swimming at one point, but ended up just walking completely under-water and not really knowing what to do so she turned around. After that, Natalie and I had "Redneck Labor Day Weekend." We went swimming over at Alum Creek Beach. It was a treat for the nose over there. The aroma was some mixture of rotten garbage and gasoline. Even with that great review, it was still a really good time. After that, we went to Hoggy's for dinner and found a really great deal. They have $5 pitchers of beer and 40 cent wings any time any football game is on.

In any event, that was a really long update for you guys. If any of you can make it, we would love for you all to come to our house for the USC game. We will have food and drink and hopefully a great victory over the Trojans (Ohio State is 2-0 when we have had big parties at the house, so we need good attendance).

We miss you guys tons and hope to see you all soon!

Note - The picture at the top is after our first footy game in Cincinnati. Ryan and I are both in the top row in the left half. We won by twenty points.