Deja Vu
Thursday night... Rich Street in Allendale... cornfields... Beta Party... man it was a weird replay in my life. Thursday the Betas threw a party for Ramiro who was returning from 6 months in France, and for Oso who graduated and is moving to IN. Lots of Brothers turned out, too bad Ramiro didn't... we had thought he got detained in customs. Eitherway it was a good time and next time we plan a surprise welcome home party for someone we'll make sure they will actually make it home.

The Betas and Champange... Stay Classy.

No Beta gig is complete, without Gammas.

Some Sigma Kappas rolled through.

Oso got some cake in the face.

I took Friday off work... but ended up having to run in for a lunch meeting. I was asked to be on the search committee for Albion's first Director of Institutional Equity. I did not want to miss the first meeting so I swung back to Albion for the meeting. Then I wrapped up some personal things and headed to Chicago.

Chicago was fun but Saturday was the worst storm I have seen in a long time. Just before going shopping with Novali there was a warning about thunderstorms. We figured no big deal and headed out. While Tamara was in T Mobile and Novi and I were in the car the storm hit. The rain hit so fast, and so hard that trees were bending nearly to the ground, carts raced throughout the lot and slammed into cars (luckily not mine), and the wind was so strong it rocked my car side to side. It passed in about 45 minutes... and we shopped. Some new Old Navy summer outfits and two pairs of shoes... she is ready for summer!

Novi wore a dress for the shopping trip.

Ready for bed and learning to catch.

I taught her to eat chips and salsa and watch sports..

She showed me how she writes her name!

I love how smart she is getting and understands a lot more. Plus she has become a good story teller... and then... and then... and then... Tamara and I talked about schools. More then likely we will not put her into a preschool... her day care is pretty much preschool already. But we are looking at schools for Kindergarten, and if we decide to do a private school applications for next year will start as soon as this September. Since Tamara just got a job at the University of Chicago she would get a great deal on their Lab School. I don't know much about Chicago or their school system... so I need to start researching. I do know that there are some awesome private schools out there. So we will see what pans out...

My drive home was insane! Chicago storm part Deux hit in the middle of my drive. Some spots the traffic was going 10 MPH... and then in Kzoo a Tornado warning went on! Since I was heading East I would outrun the storm, and then it would catch up. I finally put some distance between storm and I before getting into Albion... as I got my bags out of the car... it hit Albion. Now there are trees all over the street, straight up crazy I tell ya.

Well hope the summer storms slow down and then summer fun can get officially rolling. My mom flies to Bolivia this week, I head to Bloomington, IN for my second time facilitating UIFI, the Pistons are still going, some weddings, and then hopefully some fun trips planned to finish off the summer (Indy, San Fran, IKEA-Chicago, Seattle?).