Seriously so blessed.

Blogger sure has changed since the last time I was on it. Good for Blogger. Our stake had a Book of Mormon reading challenge and I didn't want to do it. I wanted to, but not enough to actually start until about three weeks ago. I've read and I've listened and I finished it yesterday, the final day of the challenge. I am so glad I did it. I love that book. I feel so blessed today. We went to Dallas this weekend to see our new niece. She is a doll. And it was our other niece's 3rd birthday, and she is a doll too. She kept saying, "I da berfday dirl!" Then she would twirl and run and laugh. Jeff got a job interview tonight at a great school. The principal asked for his resume tonight, then emailed maybe 30 minutes after Jeff sent it with a time for an interview this week. We are so happy. He needs to teach at a new school next year and this school is great. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers that he will secure a new job, one that will help him be a school leader! My brother comes home from his LDS mission in Japan in almost two months. I can't wait. We will go to California to see him come home off the plane and then spend time with him. He is my best brother. My other best brother just got accepted to Duke law school and he starts later this month. I am humbled to have such an intelligent and hard-working academic brain of a brother. We have been debating forever if we would go to New York with Grandma Simpson next month to her old homestead. We finally looked today and found amazing deals on flights, so we are going. And then as we booked our flights, Orbitz gave us a too-good-to-be-true car rental deal. And Priceline Negotiator really does give you great prices on hotels too! We will get to go to the Catskills, Adirondacks, Niagara Falls!!, Toronto CANADA, Palmyra, and all around upstate New York, hopefully in and out of many divine antique shops. One time I went to upstate New York to see my friend Marcus. I took the train out of Penn Station. While chugging along the Hudson River at sunset, I saw a bald eagle--a real, wild, live bald eagle--take off from his perch on the top of a bare tree and fly right into the setting sun. It was so magical. I can't wait to see that eagle again in the heartland. Now we just need to find the perfect new apartment in Houston, and life will truly be gold as Midas' touch. I feel very blessed tonight and I have good reason to. I sure am grateful for all the wonderful people I've known in my life. I hope I can always be friends with all of you.