April 29, 2008

  • Here I sit in class - I SHOULD be paying attention, but with this being the last week of classes, attention is a commodity difficult to come by. 

    Hard to believe that I am finishing up my second semester of school already.  One more major paper due on Friday, and two finals next week, and I will be finished.  That feels really good.  I will have five days off school once finals are over, and then will jump right in to summer classes.  In an attempt to not be so completely overwhelmed this coming fall and spring semesters I am taking three classes over the summer.  Kind of a bummer to not have the summer off, but in the long run it is really going to pay off.  Plus, the classes that I am taking are super interesting, so that will help a LOT.  The summer is going to fly by.

    We had a significant event happen in our family over the weekend, with my littlest brother Jesse getting baptized on Sunday evening.  My parents are involved with a HUGE church that does not have a baptismal in the church - so once or twice a year they rent out the local sports complex/family pool and dunk a lot of people at one time.  This time there were close to 100 people - amazing to think of all of those decisions.  Very cool testimonies...

    Anyway, I digress.  They did the baptisms in three groups - each group would get into the pool with all of the pastors and go one by one until everyone in the pool had been baptized - then the next group would go in...Jesse was in the last group - the family was out in full force and the little ones were starting to get pretty restless, but it was a sweet moment when he finally made the plunge [pun totally intended].  The girls all got a bit teary [mom most of all] Jesse is the last of the siblings to be baptized. 

    Here are some pictures....

    After the baptisms were over, they opened up the pool for everyone to swim who wanted to - so our whole family played in the pool for a while.  I didn't remember that we could swim, so I hadn't brought my suit - I was totally bummed.  Fortunately, my sister in love Brittney had brought hers and didn't really want to swim anyway, so I borrowed hers.  It worked out pretty well, except for the part that she is a little a lot more endowed than I in the chestly region, so I was in imminent danger of exposure from slipping swimwear the whole time, but I was cautious and had a GREAT time despite of it.  Unfortunately, we didn't get many shots of the nieces and nephews playing in the water, but here are a couple...

    I bought this little bikini for my very first niece, and it has now been passed down through three other nieces to Hadassah - I love it, and have told my sisters and sister in loves that it is one of the few pieces of clothing that they need to keep in case I ever have a daughter.  This was her first time to wear it, and she was so stinking cute in it.    She loved the water - Hannah let her float and kick, and she kept intentionally dunking her head under the water, coming up sputtering and smiling.  So cute.

    Tabitha and I...

    Ian and Addison had a great time splashing each other in the shallow part of the pool....I love watching the cousins play together - I didn't have that growing up, and I can't think of many things that are cooler than having cousins that you love to hang and spend time with.

    So there is the latest from the Kinne clan... 

    We are talking about stress in my Industrial/Organizational Psych class...perhaps I should go and pay attention now......

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