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Driving home from Boulder last night, I was treated to a beautiful sunset over the mountains.

At dinner the other night, we were talking about super powers that would be kind of pointless to have. Zaque and Alex came up with a bunch that were hilarious. Some of the better examples:

• The ability to fly, but only while naked
• The ability to move things with your mind, but only if they’re within arm’s reach
• The ability to make your socks wet
• The ability to sneeze your favorite fountain drink
• The ability to walk through walls, but only the drywall (not the studs)
• The ability to be invisible, but only while screaming at the top of your lungs
• The ability to move moles around your skin (not get rid of them, just move them)
• The ability to de-carbonate soda
• The ability to make bread soggy

Yeah, these are the sorts of things my boys do. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, as they say.

Rock shops are so cool.

Our family spent around an hour in this one store alone. Of course they’re all terrifically expensive, but it’s still amazing to look at them…

While in downtown Breckenridge, we spotted a velociraptor.

Zaque mocked it:

I dared it:

Laralee tamed it:

And Kyra? Well, Kyra just ran from it.

I saw this in a window at a tourist shop in Breck a few weeks ago:

So very, very true.

This is the kind of stuff people look at and say, “Wow, that’s so inspiring! The artist really captured the essence of (insert some random object or emotion).”

But when I look at it, I feel pretty much like Kyra.

We were sitting around the dinner table last night, talking about death (yeah). I mentioned how I want to be cremated, and Zaque responded with:

When I die, I want to be cremated, and then have my ashes placed gently in a really nice fancy cloth. Then I want someone to roll up that cloth really tightly, shove it into a t-shirt cannon, and fire it directly into the chest of my worst enemy.

Alex finished his spring semester at BYU, so he’s back home for a few months before heading off for fall semester. Kaitlyn came with him, which was really cool because we can hang out with her for a few days before they head to Kansas City so he can meet her family.

Here are the two lovebirds, sitting together in front of the open door (for a bit of a breeze) while they play some online game with each other.

It’s like they’re made for each other!

Well, it’s official: Alex is engaged. A little over a week ago he proposed to Kaitlyn, and she accepted.

They promptly headed off to Middle-Earth for a photo shoot. Here’s a nice picture of them romping through the Shire, with the Misty Mountains in the background.

I’m really excited for the two of them. Next is the fun part: planning a wedding!

Every few weeks I get together with a group of friends and we play board games. Between all of us, we have a pretty broad collection of games, varying from silly to strategic to simply epic.

Last night I watched the guys play a relatively new addition called Gloomhaven. The game itself costs over a hundred dollars and comes in an enormous box with hundreds of pieces. It’s a four-person game, and they were already in the middle of a “campaign”, so I didn’t join. But I watched and learned the rules. Much of the game looked like this:

Meaning there were tons of cards and pieces on the table, some confused looks as people read the various cards, and frequent referrals to the thick rulebook.

Yeah, maybe this one is a little too complicated for my tastes. After two hours, they’d almost finished the first of two rooms they were exploring that evening. I headed out to pick up Thom, who’s visiting this week, and wished them the best as they continued to figure out all the craziness.