I called Barbara yesterday and left a message on her voice mail, but haven't heard back yet. This probably means that she'll be calling during game day again tomorrow, so I'm going to try a preemptive strike and call her again in the morning.

Meanwhile....life does go on and mostly in good ways. I actually had most of a day to myself on Saturday. Anthony was volunteering with REACH to paint a house with a crew from his office. Davan wanted to help, so I took her over there after breakfast. Anthony had to be there earlier than we wanted to wake her up. Davan got to help paint for a couple of hours before they were done and went off to the post painting BBQ. REACH does several houses all in the same neighborhood and then all the crews join up for the BBQ.

After that, Anthony took Davan over to my parent's house because she was invited to spend the night there Saturday. After dropping Davan off, Anthony spent some time moaning over new bikes at Performance before coming home for a quiet evening of just the two of us.

When my parents brought Davan back from the sleepover, we all went out to eat for lunch. It was Anthony's birthday meal and he choose to go to the Olive Garden, as he was "carbing up" for his big birthday bike ride the next day.

Anthony took Monday (his birthday - 444 weeks old!) off of work to do a birthday bike ride. He rode 49.5 miles from our house up to Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood. This ride is a huge climb and, thus, very difficult. Davan and I drove up a couple of hours after he left and met him along the way. We did support stuff - new water bottles, chalk messages on the side of the road, fig newtons - until he got to the top. Then we all had lunch together.

Anthony rode back down part way - pretty much as far as he could coast - to enjoy the fruits of his labor, for a total of 70 miles. Not too shabby for a 444 weeker.

Davan had her last gymnastics class for the summer in the afternoon. Anthony got to go and watch, which was fun for all of us. Then it was out to eat again, as I hadn't had time to do anything special for dinner that day.

Then there's all of the usual stuff - up to the farm, homeschool park day, a playdate for Davan, racquetball for me....life!