We are moving to......

Drum roll please.....


(what, don't you automatically recognize what country that flag belongs to?)

JAKARTA, INDONESIA

We are VERY VERY excited! The ceremony was awesome and full of nervous energy (including from our boys -- though that was mostly just energy), and felt a lot like receiving a mission call, aside from the Mardi Gras beads everyone wore and the game of Bingo played throughout the ceremony. When Tanner got his flag and later handed it to Clark, Clark said "That's not OUR flag, OUR flag has stars." (get used to it buddy!) We are slated to move at the end of June...so the upcoming months will definitely be busy in our household. We hope as many of you as possible will be able to come and visit. I will post more details about Indonesia soon, but only those details that show the country in a positive light, so that you will actually want to visit us!

I Love Canada!

I love the Olympics, but I really loved that I learned so much about the place this time around. Canada sounds and looks like a wonderful place...at least within 100 miles of our border anyway...then it just gets way too cold. Luckily, we taped the afternoon coverage everyday and we TIVO'd through the 6 hours in about 1 hour just to see if there was anything interesting to watch. If you watched or TIVO'd Saturday afternoon's coverage, there was a 45 minute story with Tom Brokaw about Gander, Newfoundland. I was SO excited when we started watching because I was shocked that prior to Tom Brokaw's initial story about Canada on one of the first days of the Olympics, I had NEVER heard about the people of Canada helping the U.S. out so much on 9/11. I was sad at the time that he didn't expound on the story.

Just watching how they diverted all those flights to Canada was amazing. For all the failures that occurred on that day, it AMAZES that within 2 hours there was not a plane in the sky over the U.S. and that there were no crashes on runways in the process of grounding all the flights.
I cried multiple times throughout the story...it was very well done if you don't count the tacky breaks for commercials at emotionally critical moments. I was hoping it would be on youtube this morning so I could just post the link, but so far it hasn't shown up and NBC hasn't said if they will re-air it. Hopefully everyone will get the chance to see it...and if you do, have tissues handy...lots of tissues.

We watched the gold medal hockey game after watching the story about Gander, and while I am USA through and through, the disappointment at our loss was not nearly as acute as it otherwise could have been, because if we are going to lose, it's best to lose to a country you like and respect. We are truly blessed to have our good neighbors to the north.