Ah, a fast connection for uploading pictures

OK, now I'm in a good fast-connection place, so I'm uploading the last of the photos that I was going to share from our trip "out west". I'll even try to get them in order:

A grizzly we saw at Yellowstone

An elk from Yellowstone - there was lots of wildlife out there!

Disneyland of the west, also known as Old Faithful - too many people!!

An old homestead at the foot of the Tetons - I'd love to live there!!!

Bryce Canyon - really beautiful, we must have about 400 pictures just from there.

Balanced Rock at Arches National Park - it'll fall over in a few more million years!

The requisite trip to Four Corners, which is cheeseball, but you just have to go so you can say you've been there.

The Gateway Arch in St Louis.

If you want to see more, like I said before, you'll have to make the trek out to Pittsburgh. We'd love to have visitors!

I think I'm caught up....sort of

Well, I just finished reading the two (yes, just two) blogs that I like to read - written by my old high school friends. You'd think with just two of them, I'd do a little better keeping up (I had to go back to their April archives before I found posts that I remembered reading). And really, you guys may be the only two people who actually read my blog (well, that's not true - I know Reed reads it, if I'd ever update it).

So I've learned a lot about Jenny's life and her move to join me here in PA - okay, so the York/Harrisburg area is just as far from Pittsburgh as Baltimore is, but at least now we're in the same state :). And I've learned much less than I'd have liked about KT's trip to Alaska to work with Habitat for Humanity.

So now, you guys can learn a new little tidbit about my life: I'm pregnant! It's a bit scary and really rather draining at this point (why on earth do they call it "morning" sickness - they should just call it "two or more months of feeling like crap all the time"). I'm really having trouble actually eating the amount of food I'd need just for myself, let alone the extra 200 or 300 calories per day for the extra human growing inside me. Ah well, I've been assured that it will go away soon. I really hope so, 'cause I can't take much more of this.

Let's see, what else? Oh, I'm going to try to post those photos again. Let's see if that works:

Hooray - it worked! - here's a Bison at Yellowstone
Ah - Mount Rushmore, with me added.

OK, so I have about 8 more photos that I was going to upload, but they're taking too long on my puny dial-up connection. And I have a meeting I have to be at in 1 hour, so I'm going to give up now and wait until I'm somewhere with a faster connection.