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Hinckley Feasting on Noodles
We are feeling quite adjusted to Provo now and feeling grateful to have the support and company of family nearby. I (Greg) am wrapping up my first IP&T class which is all about learning outcomes and assessment. I never realized so much went into making and administering tests! I am learning quite a bit and have been reflecting on my TFA experience which was really starting to get underway this time last year. 
Kassie has caught the canning/jamming bug and she has turned the bags of apricots we picked at the Jarvis' into some tasty jam and dried apricot chips. She is also busy transcribing an interview we did with the wife of a WW2 vet as a part of a small oral history project she's been pondering for quite some time. She is really interested in the women of the Greatest Generation and we are just getting 3 interviews at first to see if it is something to pursue in more detail later. I film the interviews and she asks the questions. She also just finished a really neat sounding book about a former SS officer who married a former concentration camp victim and they both joined the LDS church. Apparently they are still alive, living in Europe and he was a sealer in the Swiss temple there.  Pretty amazing. 

The "Internet Cave" - named for the contents of cords and a router "hidden"
under a small table and pillows - is one of Hinckley's favorite forbidden destinations

Hinckley is as active as ever. He cut two new molars and sure let us know about it! Having a baby is amazing and fun, but when they start teething and scream for hours in the middle of the night you start to have some pretty insane thoughts - especially when you are at a family reunion with 30 people on the other side of the wall (No pictures from that event . . . ). 

We got a jogging stroller off of Craigslist and he enjoys whizzing about in that. Also he has formalized the process of going up and down the stairs and is now quite good at it. We have to watch him pretty closely because he is constantly moving and getting into something new. He found a few dead flies behind the couch and I got to him just in time before he starting chowing down on them! 


Read for a jog
We've been enjoying the amazing food that seems to be continually springing from the garden (another perk of posting up with your parents). Kassie made this really tasty spaghetti dish using some fresh basil. I highly recommend the recipe! 

Probably the best pasta I've had in my life, and I'm not being dramatic. 



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