Three quick rather un-related (or perhaps related more than we realize) updates:

#1) For those of you who have not already heard, Salome and Isaiah will be moving to Texas next week. Salome was recently accepted by Texas Wesleyan University (located east side of Ft. Worth) as transfer student from Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, MI, for her final two years of law school. There are likely more post-graduation employment opportunities for Salome and current job opportunities for Isaiah in Texas than in Lansing, MI. Thus the pursuit of a transfer. A week ago, Salome and Isaiah did not know where, if at all, they would be moving. Salome had applied to law schools in Las Vegas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas. Now they know, and are making plans to leave Lansing on Sunday (August 10) after church, for TX. Pastor Don Dryer and his wife, Joanne, friends of ours (Don used to work as campus pastor for Dordt College, and was colleague of mine in 1992, when I worked part-time for Dordt as Coordinator of International Students) are currently living in Frisco, Texas, about 40-45 minutes north of the University where Salome will be studying law. They have opened their home as initial “home base” for Salome andIsaiah, until they are able to find their own apartment. Joanne “just happens” to have started a new job with real estate, and will be able to help them locate an apartment in a decent area, and in a price range they are able to afford. An interesting detail, is that Don and Joanne’s daughter, Natalie (we remember her as a young girl during our Sioux Center years) married a Nigerian guy named David, this past May. It just happens to be, that Salome and David used to hang out alot together at Dordt. Small world! Please join us in wishing the best to Salome and Isaiah as they settle into new life in TX.

#2) Michael dropped by our house today to coordinate details on the football equipment he needs for this school year. He is about to start school as a SOPHMORE at Valley High School this year. He had a class last year at Valley Southwoods, with Shawn Johnson, who is currently the World Champion for gymnastics. Shawn is currently in Beijing, China, for the Olympics, and everybody in Des Moines is proud of it. Anyways, Michael came to see us about his football aspirations, and we took a quick photo of his recent tattoo. He is still really proud of it, and his family is doing very well:

#3) A very possible record for the Guiness Book of World Records was set in Des Moines, IA, yesterday at the IA State Fair: 8,400 people got free corn dogs at the IA State Fair, and ate the corn dogs at the same time!! 11,000 people WANTED to be part of this, and were present at the Fair Grandstands, but there were not enough corn dogs to go around. Only IOWA We had considered being part of this, but our schedules did not permit.

There are many more things going on in our lives here in Des Moines, but these are three quick updates:)

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