If a child is born on an airplane, what's his place of birth and citizenship?

My dad thinks this site is the coolest thing since his second daughter was born: www.howstuffworks.com. It has the answer to that question and pretty much everything else you can think of. Dad was right. It is pretty cool.

Yesterday we paid our first (non-refundable) deposit for the wedding. So I guess Jason's stuck with me now. I did call him right before I went to visit with the photographer to give him one last chance to back out. He didn't take it. Awww, what a nice guy.

So yesterday I was sitting at work just daydreaming about some wedding stuff. I was calculating how old we will both be when we do get married. I had Jason figured out right away because I have been telling him that he's almost 32 for about 6 months now. When it came to me, though, I panicked. I forgot how old I am! I tried to calm down and do the logical thing- figure out the math. So I'm sitting there thinking I was born in 80 and it's 2006 now. According to that I would be 26. But then I was absolutely sure that had turned 26 last year. My next thought was "I'm 27!?" I knew there was no way I was that old, but like I said, I could've sworn that I turned 26 last year. In the midst of my panic at possibly being 27 (27!) I decided I needed a definitive answer and I knew that wasn't coming from me. So, I called Michelle and asked her how old we are. She, after giggling at my expense, told me that we're 26. Whew! Relief. I knew I couldn't be 27! Twenty-seven is old!

Speaking of old, Jason's coming to visit us today....

:)

 yes, we got engaged. This is our official engagement pic taken shortly after it happened. And even though it has taken me like a week and a half to post anything about it I am very excited. We have decided on a date- it will be Friday July 6th at Christ the King church (yes, we are having the full catholic ceremony- thank Jason for that one. I wanted to have it outside) and then the Ramkota. So now the planning has begun. Luckily Michelle is getting married less than a month before us so I plan on stealing as much from her after she's done with it as possible as far as decorations and whatnot. 

So mark the date on your calendar! July 6th!

Oh, and I've decided on what our first song will be as husband & wife. Sexyback by JT.

Sara & Brendan finally got married on Saturday. So big congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Becher. I had an absolute blast and I think I even remember most of it. There might be a small portion of the evening around dinner time that is slightly blurry. Yes, right around speech time... Bet mine was spectacular. But anyway, Sara looked gorgeous, the whole thing went really well, and it all went by so fast even though we started early and didn't quit until they turned on the lights. I'm pretty sure I forced everyone who was there out onto the dance floor. I'm sure they appreciated that, but I had a great time. This is the one of the few pictures that we took with my camera (yes, we're in the heart-shaped bathtub in their honeymoon suite) so when I get more I'll try to post a few of those. Jon has some on flickr, click here to check those out.

I'm sorry, here comes a rant so if you need to just click on little Mr. X in the upper right, but I just have to comment on something in light of the recent news headlines. Someone needs to take a long hard look at both the prevalence of repeat sex offenders vs single incident offenders and the correlation between sex offenses and other crimes including murder. Check out the AG's sex offender website. These people don't just accidentally commit a single sexual assault and subsequently transform into model citizens who you would just love having live next door. I don't understand why something hasn't been done about this. These people need to experience some more severe repercussions. I think there should be two options for punishment. Castration or lobotomy. I'm completely serious. Read about some their offenses on the website and I guarantee you'll agree especially if you consider that their next victim could be your child, sister, niece, etc. The victims are permanently affected by something like that. The offenders should be too.

Just for a little perspective- there are 73 offenders within a 5 mile radius of our house here in Bismarck. 73.