I know everyone must be tired of my excuses for not getting my "weekly" blog update out on time. This week we have two really good ones.

We went to the Schans house this weekend in Williamsport to reconnect with our good friends. We celebrated Father's Day with soccer, a mini-LAN party (if you don't know what a LAN party is, you probably aren't interested in them anyway) and a visit to their church. One of the higlights of the weekend was a hike on a nearby hill to find a geocache. (Those of you who endure through the rest of this will be rewarded with pics from the hike.)

The other thing that consumed our time this week is buying a new house! We are moving to Litiz. We will be 8 minutes from my work instead of 25. It is a bigger house with room to have parties and 2-1/2 baths. (One patient told me that amounts to one bath for Leslie, one for Shannon and 1/2 for the three guys.)

We didn't decide to get the house until Monday. I signed the paperwork Tuesday and arranged for a realtor to come view our house Wednesday. We stayed up until 2 am last night cleaning up and planting flowers so it looked good for the real estate agent. We decided to put it on the market in one week so we would have a chance to take care of the only real eyesores we have: peeling paint on parts of the exterior of the house and peeling paint of the porch (it is painted concrete.)

Well, it turns out it is going to rain all week in Lancaster starting Thursday night. Instead of waiting an additional week we decided to do the painting right awat. So, after small group let out at 9:30 pm, we scraped and prepped the porch and scraped and painted the bare spots and peeling areas on the house. And here I am at 12:30 pm writing to tell you about it. Leslie will get up at 6 am to paint the porch.

So, I should be exhausted. But, I am too keyed up to sleep right away. I love home improvement and I am excited about the move. We don't get the house until 8/31 though. Feel free to come help us move 9/1 or 9/2!

Here is your reward: (I will put the other three pics on the next blog.)