Thank heavens for Jake!

Yesterday morning, I was so happy with my brother. I logged onto our family website first thing in the morning yesterday and my brother had already posted about the murder of the volleyball coach's father-in-law (Jake lives in Belgium, so he is awake much earlier than I am). At that time, CNN.com only had a vague story saying that an American was murdered at a tourist attraction with no other details. My good brother had already done extra research and found out for sure that it wasn't Jeremy. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. I usually read CNN.com for news, and I would have seen that within a half hour or waking up. I would have FREAKED out.

I am so sad for this man's family. I just can't imagine. He looks like he was a really good guy, too.

Jer's Update

Just an update on Jer's adventures. His first evening in Beijing, he was really tired. But he was able to walk outside the Bird's Nest to see the fireworks from the Opening Ceremony before going back to his hotel and crashing.

On Saturday, Jer went to a corporate event and spent some time walking around the Olympic Green looking at all the sponsorship displays. He got to see the terra cotta warriors (I think they brought in three) that he had wanted to see so badly.

In the evening, he went to see Men's and Women's Beach Volleyball. He had a great time and was surprised at the party-like atmosphere there. I think that is where there are a lot of differences from the Salt Lake games we attended. In the snow, you can't really do the wave or other classic audience things.

Jer's Sunday seems to be shaping up pretty well. He had another corporate event to attend, then he was headed to Handball. Right now he is at Women's Gymnastics. I hope he is having a great time!

November 4, 2008

That is going to be Ian's date of birth! It is exciting to know a date. We are all scheduled. It was weird to sit there with the doctor and choose a child's birthday. What a big decision! Jer has already mentioned that he is going to miss out on good election coverage. I told him that won't be a issue because by the time results start coming in, little Ian will be twelve hours old. Jer can sit and watch all the coverage he wants in my hospital room while he holds Ian (and watches over Lex).

Jer is in China

Jeremy arrived in China at 3:00AM Eastern Time. There is a 12 hour time difference between the Eastern time zone and China, so it is going to be hard to find many hours where we are both awake! Jer is doing really well so far. He said that it was surreal in the cab to his hotel since he kept thinking that he was just in Chinatown in New York City or some other big city.

Since Jer has our camera (and I can't figure out where our older camera is), I don't have any photos to post in the coming week. So it will just be boring text!