Busy Busy Busy!

So, if you are unable to tell by the lack of posting, we have been super-crazy busy here in Perry Land! Most of the updates are small, but we thought we'd throw them out there for SOMEONE to enjoy!

Jeff has actually been the most busy Perry. Earlier this month he participated in a sleep study at Stanford. He's gotten through half of it so far (the overnight sleep study) and now he is waiting to hear back his results. If he qualifies, he will be subjected to a hot-cold test without and then with anesthesia. That one will be fun; Jen gets to take off early to go get him!

Jeff also had his police exam. A few weeks ago he had the written and passed that no problem. This last weekend was the physical agility, and he probably would have done better, but his back had been acting up again. We'll try to get some photos, but there are quite a few bruises on our poor boy!

In animal news, we came to discover that our 10-gallon tank only had 3 of our tetras in there! Rather than waste the space, Manny, Moe and Jack were transferred to a smaller 5-gallon tank where our phone used to be. This got us thinking; what to do with another tank? Originally we were thinking of either frogs (the really colorful ones, not the lumpy weird ones) or turtles/tortoises, but thought a 10-gallon tank would be too small for more than one turtle, and Jen didn't want to have to feed live mealworms to another living animal again (at least, not now). So we reverted back to our original wants.

Back when we were living in Colorado and first got married, we had wanted a saltwater tank a la Finding Nemo. However, the expense, the cost and the sheer size were just not going to happen (at the time, it was highly discouraged to have a saltwater tank under 35 gallons). Well, recently we read about people actually making the 10-gallon tanks work, so Jeff set out doing that. After a week and a half, he was ready to add our two newest fish to the family: A yellow-tail damsel named Leon and a stiped damsel named Donovan.

In addition to these wonderfully colorful fish, Jen also acquired a small betta fish, Hagrid, who hangs out in the bedroom on the dresser as a sort of "night light" to the room.

So, we ended up with three more pets, bringing our in-house total to 22!

There are some big things coming up for us as well. In May, Jen will have to go to Las Vegas again for work, and Jeff has his mission reunion at the end of May, so there looks like some travel will be in the near future. Also, we are still trying to coordinate a way to get to the east coast, since Jen will not be going with her coworkers to DC this year.

Well, back to the grindstone. I promise, pics are coming!!