Kim got married! And it's a...

I am very excited to announce that last Friday, my sister Kim got married! She's been dating Bob for a while now (a few years?) and we are totally excited to have him be officially part of the family. He has a daughter named Summer who is John's age, and all our kids love. So congradulations to Bob and Kim! Welcome to the family!

Speaking of family, Jennie and I just went to the ultrasound to see the baby. We went to one of those 3-D things, it was pretty cool! As opposed to a 2-D image that looks like a blob, this machine makes a 3-D image that looks like a blob in 3-D. I'll put pictures up when they are available. But most importantly, now we know the gender of the child. It's a GIRL! Yes, the Rice famliy is becoming more feminine as it gets older, it seems.

Speaking of being feminine, I'm afraid that I'm becoming slightly more Europe, or at least that's what I was accused of receintly. I was getting out of my Mini Cooper wearing a soccer jersey, and someone asked me where I was from in Europe. In my defence, it was a US soccer team. But then I thought about how I'm in to cycling, soccer, and I suddenly have the urge to not bomb something. Am I becoming like them? Thank God the football season is about to begin. That should toughen me up.

Speaking of being tough, I ran 15 miles yesterday. 15 miles! I mentioned this to a parish in Manchester, NH that I've been speaking to for the past few nights, and I had to beg them to respond. I mean, this is a big deal. I ran for 2 1/2 hours. But what is scarier is that for the marathon, I'm going to have to run another 2 hours. Why am I doing this again? Oh, that's right- because my sister asked me to.

Speaking of my sister, did I mention she got married on Friday? It was really cool.