Austin Trueblood was born on 6/16/09 to Angela and Matthew Trueblood.  His older brother, Dillan, thinks it is pretty cool, as well as Ang and Matt.  What does this have to do with the Gormsens, you may ask?  Well, they are great friends of ours, and just a few months ago, they became our neighbors.  They made us the kids’ Godparents.  Awesome, right?

Ang and Matt have helped us out of some tough situations, and we are always trying to repay the favor, but they seem to always be one step ahead of us, something that we could never repay.  They are true friends.

So, besides their new little one, who is cuter than hell, we have some updates too.

Tomorrow is the 4th of July, Independence Day! To celebrate, we are going to play some poker at our apartment with Renee’s mom, her mom’s boyfriend, grandma, and us.  We are having deep fried porkchops.  It will be fun.

I don’t know if we will do anything for the fourth, but we may end up in the Arrowhead Mall Parking lot.  That is always fun.  Across the street, they set off a really nice set of fireworks.  I actually went into the park once, but it was way overcrowded and everybody was pissy, due to the intense heat and lack of beverage areas.

Luckily, Alex gave me the day off as well as the day after.  He’s awesome like that.

We are still struggling to pay bills.  I finally stopped avoiding my student loans, so now I have to pay $50 a month to them.  Thank God Renee is going to start bringing home some income.

Figment gave us one helluva scare the other day.  We brought her home and found that she had licked the outside of our toilet bowl cleaner bottle.  It didn’t have much on the outside, luckily, but there is hydrochloric acid in there.  It will eat her insides.  We took her to the vet, paid a hefty sum, and got her fixed.  Luckily, Alex got me my check a few days early so we were still able to pay rent.  Again, he is awesome!

Dad is in Washington and Idaho right now with Donna and the kids.  They are going all over up there.  I am sure they are having a blast.  I miss that area so bad.

Well, have a safe and happy 4th!  Don’t blow your hand off!

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