4-Aug

This past weekend was very nice. Friday I left work a few hours early and came home to start working on the school room. We have been doing things with the room for a while and had wanted to put more shelves up for books and things. It turned out that any shelving unit we could find was expensive. We decided to build a desk/bookshelf that spanned the entire outside wall of the room. Building the shelf for the entire wall (spans 10 feet) was about as expensive as buying one 3x7 shelf. Thus Friday and Saturday I spent most of my time working on that unit. Kelli has been reading the Twilight searing of books by Stephanie Myer. The latest book, Breaking Dawn, was released Friday night at midnight. Kelli and I ran over to the local Wal-Mart at t 12:15am and picked up 2 copies for our family (there are 4 of us that have been reading them and there were some lengthy debates over who go to read the book first (Kelli and Isaac won the debates)). Kelli finished the book early Sunday morning. Saturday evening the Bach family came over and we had an outdoor movie. Sunday after church we went over to the Bach’s for dinner and family home evening. We had a very nice time. We are looking forward to talking with Mentor Graphics more this week and hope to be able to have an onsite interview with them soon. Mom and Dad Kendall came over Thursday and we talked about work and our recent interviews. I had suggested that Dad apply for that job at Harmon. He was able to talk with them Friday. We all hope that he gets that job as it will allow him to work for the rest of the time he wants to work and it’s local. We truly hope that it works out for them. Mom and Dad Olsen called yesterday and said that they had received a call that they might get an evacuation notice today. There is another hurricane (named Edouard) barreling down on Texas where they are serving their missions. We pray for their safety and success.