Who takes their cat to get acupuncture??

It seems that Jeff from Flipping Out does. Leisy and I were rolling on the floor laughing. It reminded me of my days at the animal shelter - except this cat is really nice! We decided cable was way too expensive so we signed up for the basic channels to get a discount on Internet. Somehow we ended up with the channel "bravo" and this crazy program follows psycho-rich-man Jeff around. Jeff pays his friends to do all of his weird chores.
Apparently humidity and hot weather have turned Leisy into a TV junkie because she refuses to go out into the "dishwasher" unless we have a really good reason to leave the house. The humidity and heat have been REALLY bad this week. It has been fluctuating between 80 - 90% humidity and there have been a lot of really intense thunderstorms.
We helped another new student from BYU move in to their apartment tonight and by the time I was done I was dripping wet. It was literally like I had just jumped into the shower with all of my clothes on. I'm so glad we have A/C!

The Library!

I'm really excited about the Toledo Library! The library is not super far from our house. It's in downtown Toledo and takes us about 10-12 minutes to get there. It's a wonderful library with a large selection and lots of fun activites. It reminds me a lot of the Salt Lake City Library. We already have library cards and actually blogged from the library when we first arrived in Toledo. The library has a really cool system throughout the entire city which we used today. They have several 'branches' of the library scattered througout the city. One of the branches is really close to our house - within walking distance. All items checked out can be returned to any of the branches. We returned our books there today and picked up a new book I had reserved. The branches alone are good sized libraries! They all have a good selection of books and DVDs and they have internet access! It's a really cool library system and I deemed it bloggable!

ewww.

Okay, so I know, we have blogged about all of the wonderful things here in Ohio. There is however one awful thing that we have come to realize. Here in Ohio we have humidity. It isn't terribly horrendous, but it does lead to some terribly horrendous things. We noticed it at Cedar point (there the humidity was hell like. 90 degrees with 90% humidity. it's like living in a dishwasher) the amusement park. In the humidity when you walk past someone, you can smell them and smell them well. The water particles in the air seem to hold other particulates and suspend them for longer periods of time. The diffusion rate is much slower than in Utah. My little sis put it best when she said "It's like you can taste people when you walk past them."

Here is a man I don't think any of you want to taste. He was in line next to us at the amusement park.

happy baby.

This little rugrat is soooo much easier to love when he's happy and making cute little faces! Kent and I both agree that a screaming baby makes for grumpy parents!! and grumpy parents makes for an even grumpier baby.

Almost daily, Z rediscovers his nose and stares at it for awhile...always with little pursed lips.

bloggers beware!

Okay, so after reading Heidi's post about giving out blog addresses and whatnot, I started thinking. How many bloggers are out there and how many of them are interrelated? and how many people are getting to my blog through links of others (like the tiffanie and her missionary fiasco!) I wondered how long it would take me to go to a friend's blog (out of the family altogether) and choose a link from that blog of somebody that I didn't know and then eventually get back to my own blog by clicking on random blog links.

so, I actually tried it! i thought it was a long shot, but i figured that being mormon helps a lot because all blogs lead back to utah!! It took me only about 15 minutes to get back to a blog with a link to me on it! and guess what? the blog that brought me back to my own was HEIDI's! for real. I linked to it from "dance bama" or something blog. there I was, out in blogworld, looking at people's links and lo and behold there appeared "gary and heidi".

I also ran into blogs of friends from highschool, people in my ward growing up ten years ago, and my fhe brother from ricks! I ventured to many states and even oversees on a few links and still managed to find my way back home.

the blogworld is ever so small and intertwined. bloggers beware.

Okay, so finally...here are some of the pictures from our roadtrip! I can't believe that it went so well and was actually really really fun! Kent and I were both quite surprised to find nebraska so enjoyable! we loved the corn fields and the greenness of it all!

we stopped in Nauvoo and saw the temple, the sites, rode the little buggy down to the Mississippi river, and just walked around the shops! I loved the Mississippi river! there were the most incredible flowers along the river beds! i loved them!

sorry that its sideways!

baby Z slept on kent the entire buggy ride!

here is the back of a car that I just had to take a picture of! i especially love bugs bunny.

After Nauvoo we drove to Carthage. I enjoyed it even more than Nauvoo. The jail was really incredible! Just to be there and realize that Joseph Smith died there. It was really amazing.

Here we are under the window that the Prophet fell out of.

The trip was great! We could not have done it without my family helping along the way!! It made it more fun and a whole lot easier and more pleasant!!

Toledo, OHIOOOOOOOOOOO

The internet man came today and we are all set to go! It makes me feel more relaxed to have the internet. We can finally communicate with everbody!

I can't even explain how weird it is to be here! It feels so normal and so great. Our apartment completely feels like home already.

Being a member of the church is the greatest blessing in the world when it comes to moving! We moved into a wonderful family right away. There were people already here when we pulled in to help us move our stuff ! and then at church we were welcomed so quickly. It also turns out that my MTC teacher and his wife are in this ward! and even better, one of my best friends from Orem Jr (I taught with her there) is in this ward with her husband! They invited us over for dinner on monday and she came by this evening to give me info on substitute teaching!

Kent and I have already had the opportunity to go out with the missionaries! I went with the sisters and Kent with the elders and it was wonderful! I had such a great experience helping teach a newly married couple! they are coming with kent and I to the ward opening social next saturday!

Plus, there is so much amazing stuff to do in Toledo!! the botanical gardens are AMAZING! just beautiful. the parks by our house feel like tropical rain forests and they are full of great animals and bugs! we have fireflies outside our windows and there's a cool little place by our house that has 69 cent shakes on wednesdays! the public library is so great (we already went in and got cards) and tony packos has the most incredible chicken chili on this planet.

so far, great! I think I am in for a little shock once kent starts school though! it won't be nearly as much fun with just zeb. he's still pretty boring.

here are some cool pictures we've taken!