For those of you out-of-towners, Northwest Arkansas recently acquired a minor league baseball team - The Northwest Arkansas Naturals (formerly the Wichita Wranglers) - a AA farm team for the Kansas City Royals. We play in the same league as San Antonio's team - The San Antonio Missions!
Anyway. They played their first game here in early April - and it has quickly become THE thing to do on the weekends. So of course, we had to go. We watched them beat the Tulsa Drillers Saturday night with friends Nicholas and Angela.
It was a little colder than I anticipated, and Bump is used to going to bed around 9 -- so we skipped out during the 8th inning -- but it was a lot of fun. I'm sure we'll be back - especially when it warms up a little.
Instead of going home, we decided to drop by the soiree taking place at Keith's house.
Got to see a few folks we don't see that often - and visit "my" dog, Ace!
Jeff even managed to snap a picture of the elusive Toby. This picture makes me laugh - he looks absolutely terrified. Toby is Keith and Don's pomeranian - who is scared to death of people and spends most of his time and energy running away from people trying to pet him... but he's cute.
Good weekend - cleaned house on Sunday - getting ready for visitors this weekend. Mom and Dad are coming up - should be fun! We are NEARLY under 30 days to go until Baby Day!
and was pretty eventful. Laura and Becky are here for a few days and we went to eat lunch with Keith after Becky FINALLY got out of bed. Then we drove to Springdale to see Ace. Ace has never been on a leash, really, so I decided to take him out. We went to PetSmart and let him pick out a toy and meet some new friends. He likes the car. Laura tried to let him out of the car at the gas station, but he's smarter than that. Also-- he already knows how to sit. He's the smartest dog ever. 
I have this job. I've worked off and on in the Orientation office since Summer 2001. This semester, Peter asked me to help out a couple hours a week and I thought it was an OK idea. 1) I could use the extra money, as I started paying my cell phone and car insurance bills this semester, 2) I'm much more likely to go to class if I'm already on campus for something I'm getting paid to do. So I DID work 8-11 MWF -- which recently changed to 9-12 MWF. There's a world of difference between 8am and 9am-- trust me. It's surprisingly unimportant to me that I could be replaced by a monkey. I'm here in case the phone rings, which is not often. And most of my time is spent talking to Tom or Laura or Heather online. That and having random conversations with Janet-- the administrative assistant for the office. Recent topics of conversations we've had include: she and her husband taking beekeeping classes, her trying to convince me to be a DJ at the student-run radio station on campus, her trying to get me to participate in a 5K (which is funny, if you know why), and her cooking chili in the office (which, again, is funny if you know why). Janet is a piece of work. 
