Catch-up Time!

Well, I don't even know where to begin and am not creative in doing lists of what has been going on, so here it is briefly (in very non-sequential order):

• Pret finished his two summer classes by passing both his finals and doing well overall. We are glad to be done with that! Thanks to all those who supported us physically, spiritually, and/or emotionally through all of that. We couldn't have done it without you!
  
• Megan went and saw "Becoming Jane" with cousins Jordan and Alison. It was good, but almost too close to her stories. Definitely worth seeing for free and again, if someone rented it. I would personally not pay to see it again, but would encourage Jane Austen fans to see it. Anne Hathaway did a very good job and whoever played her man has amazing blue eyes!
• Pret thoroughly tromped all of his friends playing "Halo" in a mini-tournament a few weeks ago and is looking for people to join again some weekend soon...
• Megan has finished "Deathly Hallows" and was sad for the characters who died and still has no idea where the names Rose and Hugo came from! Pret is anxiously awaiting our next long trip so we can listen to "Half-Blood Prince" and get on to learning the rest of the story since Megan won't tell it to him. (M-I am very proud of him for not going to look the story plots up on the internet...)
• Megan is now waiting for someone she knows to finish "Eclipse" so she can read that!
  
• We are anxiously awaiting a vacation next week, although we are still undecided on where we are going exactly. We are fine as long as we get more than 100 miles away from Salt Lake, but not too far or we can't afford the gas money!
• We are in the final stages of signing on a duplex to buy for future living in West Jordan. We won't move in until at the earlies November, but hopefully not until we have to when our landlords return home from their mission in about March.
• We have both have friends leave for the east coast recently, with another to join them next week: Pret's friend Nate, and wife Jenn and daughter Reece, have left for Penn State Medical School in Hershey, Pennsylvania; Megan's friend Lauren, and husband Dallas, have left for Chapel Hill, North Carolina for Dallas to attend the UNC Dental School; and next week our friend Lance leaves for the University of Virginia to attend Law School there. We are proud of them all for their accomplishments and will miss them greatly but will look forward to seeing them all at Christmas!
• Megan missed out on registering for the Provo River Half Marathon for which she had been training all summer. Instead we get to climb Mt. Timpanogos on Saturday, Aug 11th, and she will now run the Top of Utah Half-Marathon in Logan on Aug 25th. It threw a kink into scheduling and training, but will all work out fine (It was $13 cheaper, too, although I will spend that much more on gas up to Logan...).

I think that about covers it. I will hopefully post after next week with some pictures of our hike and vacation.