Halloween is here

So, it is officially close enough to Halloween for me to be willing to dress my kids up.
Our first Halloween celebration this week was another package in the mail. This time it was from Grandma Allred and had some fun stuff inside. We LOVE getting packages in the mail.
{Brandon, getting in to the sugar cookie}
{This picture is for Dad since I realized there are no other pictures of me. This is where I sit while the boys open packages.}
Next was our official pumpkin decorating night. You would think that boys could handle the goey mess from inside the pumpkin, but they kept asking if they could wash there hands and then come back and finish their pumpkins. So, I made a one time hand wash rule. Once your hands are washed no more pumpkin cleaning for you!

The pumpkins turned out great, and the boys are so happy to have them on our front porch.

Last night was the ward Trunk or Treat. Definitely one of our favorite church activities. There always seems to be a chili cook-off competition with these events, and most of you know how much Steve LOVES to cook. Especially for other people who are going to tell him how Dang good it is. So, he made his chili Tuesday night so we would be able to get to the church on time after work Wednesday. About half hour before we left I put the chili on the stove to warm it up. (It was delicious by the way, we had some on Tuesday night.) Well...... after turning the stove to HIGH, I left the kitchen and started getting the boys ready for the evening. Steve was busy cutting a Halloween costume for Nathan. After some time I start smelling something pretty bad. So, I run in the kitchen and immediately start stirring the chili. Big mistake. The bottom was SOOO burned, and I was just stirring the burned pieces in with the rest of the chili. So this huge pot of award winning chili worth at least 20 dollars of ingredients was ruined along with an awful smell in the house. I was very upset that I didn't follow my first thought which was to let it warm up on a more reasonable temperature. I do have to say though, Steve was so nice about it, he of course was disappointed, but just said there is nothing we can do about it, and that was the end of it. This is usually my philosophy on things, but this time he took the laid back approach while I was pretty bothered by it. :-)

Now back to the costumes. The boys all got to choose what they wanted to be this year except for Jacob. He was the right size for my German costume that I had and he was going to be my model whether he liked it or not. Luckily the people at church thought he was adorable, and that was what he wanted. He kept telling me that he wanted to look cute. haha I honestly think this is the best costume any of my kids have ever dressed in. I LOVE IT!
{He gets two pictures for being the cutest}{Steven - Ninja}
Ok, now this is another story. Nathan had been saying all month that he wanted to be a ghost. I looked online and at the stores for a typical white ghost costume and did not find one anywhere. So, Steve willingly said he would cut Nathan a ghost costume out of a white sheet. Well, he got a little scissor happy and cut that thing to shreds! They finally decided Nathan looked more like a mummy than anything. But since Nathan couldn't eat with his hands and mouth covered, the costume didn't last more than 20 minutes. You will probably be seeing him in something different on my Halloween night post. :-){Brandon as a knight}To finish the evening off I was so excited to see Nathan sit down, dump out his candy and separate it in to piles. Do you remember doing this!! What a great Halloween tradition, and he knew just what to do without any suggestions from me. Apparently he was looking for gum and was a little upset when he had No gum pile.

Staying Active

Thanks you guys for your suggestions in my last post. I LOVED THEM! I am trying out different things to see what works for me, but the first thing I did was looked up episodes of the office on the internet to see if I could catch up. I was able to watch the last three from season 14 and then the first 2 from this season. I watched the baby shower one this week, and am now all caught up. The show is hilarious, thanks for the tip.

Life has been fun and somewhat active here, just the right amount of activity in my opinion.
I have only a few pictures for you, but at least they will catch you up.

Last Monday (Christopher Columbus day) Steve had work off so we visited the Statesboro Fair, and had a nice time. It is a very small fair, and was only open for 7 days.

This was our favorite hut because Steve is thinking seriously about getting a beehive and collecting his own honey!! Crazy isn't it. And the man in the hut very much encouraged him.


In the honey hut they sold honey sticks that they added different flavors too like orange or peach. They were interesting.

I had to take a picture of this because it is so Southern. This is how they are picking up the trash. They have a trailer hooked to the back of a tractor and the ladies put the trash barrels in the trailer. Who knows, maybe that is how they do it everywhere, this just struck me as a Southern picture.Brandon had a corndog for dinner and decided to lick the ketchup out of the dish when he was done. It was hilarious to watch him. Two ladies even stopped to watch. hahaThen Tuesday Steve left to Augusta which is about 2 hours away from home for a business trip for two weeks. I was a little concerned because it was also the boys fall break. They got a week off of school. When Steve is out of town and the boys are home all day my days can seem REALLY long, but we kept busy at friends house and going to playgroup and then on Thursday we drove up to Augusta to stay in the hotel with Steve for the weekend. Since the govt was paying for the room we had a fantastic, inexpensive weekend.

I figured out the perfect thing to do at the hotel when you are in for the night and your husband is at work. We played GoFish and the boys loved it.

They also decided to go in the pool even though it was in the low 70s. Nathan didn't last long, but Steven had a great time. Steve and Brandon took a little nap at the room and I got to read my book.The weather has been so nice here, we are just loving being outside, it is great fall weather. In Augusta we found this cool park that had a good ole' tetherball pole at it. It was the perfect size for Brandon, and Steve and I got some use out of it too.


Brandon with some rock candy from a Colonial Times thing we went to.
There was also a fair in Augusta and so the boys got to go on one ride each. Steve took Nathan and Steven on this twisting torture ride, but Jacob wasn't tall enough so he went on the dragon roller coaster and had the time of his life.
We got back Sunday night and got ourselves ready to go back to school. The boys still love school and they both did very well on their report cards. Steven is one of the top 7 students in his class so his teacher is taking those seven students to Applebees on Saturday. Steven is so excited to go and I am very proud of him for how much he is enjoying learning and how well he is doing in school. Nathan is getting the hang of things too, his teacher seems to really like him even if he does get in trouble most days.

Then on Monday we got two FUN packages from Nana and Papa Hughes. They are helping us get ready for Halloween, and sent us some goodies.

suckers
beautiful boxes of cookies. Very yummy
Our only downer this week is that the boys are passing a throw up bug to each other. Brandon had it Monday night, Jacob Tuesday night, and Steven today. I kept he and Nathan out of school today afraid that Nathan would get sick at some point, but he didn't. He just got bored and was driving me crazy so I had us all go out and clean out the garage. A fun chore that was needing to be done and it got us all out of the house and spending time in this beautiful fall weather.

Tell Me

OK people, I know blogs are usually all about who I am and what I am doing, but today I need you to tell me a couple of things. Most of these are pretty lame questions, and some of them need to be asked because I have been in Deutschland for so long. So help me out here and give me your best answers.

1. I need to find a good healthy bread that tastes good. Since we came back to the states I have been looking for a staple bread that I think is good for my family, and tastes good. I have bought about 10 different kinds and don't REALLY like any of them. So tell me what you buy.

2. Emily mentioned on her blog that she is a faithful moisturizer, and I would like to be one. Tell me what face washing soap you use, and moisturizer.

3. Along the same lines, I need a good mousse and or hairspray that works great and deals well with frizz and curls.

4. **Very Important** tell me what TV shows are a "must see" in your weekly line up. I only have one which is the Biggest Loser, but I feel like I am missing out on some shows just because I don't know if they are good.

Thanks for your help!

Just so I don't do another blog without pictures, here are two of baby Brandon.

This sweet boy can't walk and still wakes up at night for a bottle, but his dear old Dad taught him where his nose is, and he finds his (or yours) every time we ask. SmArT KiD!

I like this tag

I love this new tag that I have seen on a couple of blogs, therefore I am doing it. I would like to tag Alicia Buchanan, and Jen Peterson. Actually I would be curious about Jessica, Laura, Mom, Sarah, and Steve too, but I don't want to go overboard. It a very thought provoking activity. Heck, you should ALL do it.

I am addicted to chocolate. I don’t get headaches or anything if I don’t eat it, I just don’t think life would be as good if I couldn’t have some every day.

I miss Steve. He is out of town for the second week in a row, and I always act like it is no big deal when he is gone because I don’t want to be weak. But I miss him and am ready for him to come home.

I think the media does a great job of putting unnecessary fear in people. I think we should all use common sense and be careful, but the things they show on TV make people worry so much about EVERY little thing.

I know that my family loves me.

I want to cook healthier. Not only because it would be nice to lose weight, but I would also like my family to eat better. I am working on this one, but am a little uneducated as to food that will taste good, be filling, and is considered healthy.

I have all the ingredients bought so that Steve can make a fabulous breakfast on Conference Sunday morning.

I search for a binky every night when Brandon wakes up for a bottle so he will have it when the bottle is gone. Yes the boy is 1yr and 2mo old and still waking up at night. I don’t know what the deal is with that.

I wish I could live closer to my sisters. I have made a good step in moving back to the states so I can at least call them now. But how fun to live by them!!

I hate when my children misbehave in public. They usually do very good, but every once in a while they don’t and it really bothers me. I can handle it fine at home, but not in public.

I am scared of the difficult lessons in life my children are bound to face. I think it is going to be so hard to watch my children make choices that I know they shouldn’t make.

I fear decorating my house. I am so afraid to put 10 nail holes in the wall to discover that my room looks horrible. So, I just don’t hang pictures at all. Good solution aye?

I always kiss the boys before they go to bed. So on those days when there was no other physical touch between me and them, they will always get it at night.

I love to watch a good show and cross stitch. A hobby I picked up in High School, I should have given it up years ago because I never have time to do it, but I still try.

I feel sad when I think about good people who are making bad choices.

I hear the things Steven (second grade) is learning from school everyday when he comes home, and I am excited that he has reached this learning stage of his life. He is thoroughly enjoying it, and I love to see how much he knows.

I don't remember how to sleep in! Every so often Steve is willing to wake up with the kids and let me sleep in and it is a struggle to stay asleep until 9:00am.

I wonder how much my ebay auction is going to sell for.

I care a lot about how much sleep my kids get. I HATE to miss their naps, or having to wake them up from naps. As a result, they are all fantastic sleepers. (Brandon will sleep through the night soon, I am sure of it.)

I regret not listening to good advice or counsel when hearing it the first time, or the first 100 times.

I am not good at keeping my house picked up and it drives me crazy. But not crazy enough to spend hours doing it. haha

I believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; I also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

I dance only for my children. It is an attention getting thing. Steve allows me to see him dance, but he will not have that favor returned.

I sing all the time. I love to listen to my kids and my husband sing too.

I write lists all the time. The problem is that I write 3 things on one paper, and 10 things on another, so that when it is time to check off the list I have to go to more than one place to check it off.

I win zuma every time I play. It used to be such a challenging game, but now I rule it. Now if I could just beat Steve’s fastest times.

I dream of the day when we have enough money to get things we want just for the fun of it.

I lose lots of things in this house for some reason. This past two weeks I have been looking for things constantly and have no idea where they could be. A couple of examples are…I lost 2 cookie sheets that are nowhere to be found, I cannot find any of Jacobs shorts(he had like 6 pair when we moved here, now I can only locate 2 pair), I lost a bottle of vanilla that I know I bought but has vanished.

I never want to live where there is not a Walmart close by. I honestly tried shopping at another store, and I felt like I was throwing my money away. I will brave the crowds to save myself the money.

I listen to music (country usually) whenever I can.

I read in stages. I will go a year without reading anything (except scriptures) and then I will go on a reading binge, and read 10 books in a couple months.

I am happy with the way my life has gone. There are many directions my life could have gone, and I am happy with the way it is turning out.

Some pictures

I am loving the new blog feature that you can have on your side bar that tells you when the last time someone updated was. It is a huge time saver. But I am also finding it to be a little stressful. Laura has one on her blog and I am very conscious of not falling "below the yellow line." (<- biggest loser phrase) I just don't want to be at the bottom of the list because I haven't updated my blog in so long. STRESS. So here are some pictures of us lately. With commentary of course. {We went fishing as a family a couple Saturdays ago, and it was a huge success. The boys loved it because I went and could take them to the swings that were close by the fishing pier. Then they didn't have to sit in the sun waiting for the fish to bite. When a fish did bite, Steve would call us over and we would all get in on the action. This is a sting ray that Nathan reeled in with a missing tail. I think it is disgusting that it is in my house and in his hands. Yuck!}{Here is Steven's catch. I have a better picture of the fish, but I figure you would rather see him in his pirate hat than the fish anyway.}
{Of course the degutting of the fish.}
{Here is Jacob posing with our new avocado tree we got in the mail. }
{Friday night was the Fall Festival at the school and we had a great time. I didn't volunteer to help at it because Steve was out of town and I didn't know what to do with the boys, so I felt bad about that, but we did have a good time. Here is Jacob knocking down the bowling pins for a great dollar store prize.}

{This is a blurry picture of Steven's favorite game. The cake walk. He went around this thing like 10 times and still ended up with no cake. Poor guy. Maybe I will make him one. We donated Monster Cookies to the cake walk.}{Nathan and Jacob on the rock wall the school put up. Pretty cool. Jacob didn't get very high unfortunately}
{Here is Brandon doing that good ole thing one year olds do. This time it was a brand new, extra large roll. I didn't get mad at him, this is just his new thing.}
{See, here he is showing off three things. 1. His new embarrassed face. 2. His new Hawaiian boy outfit that I totally love. 3. How good he is doing at standing. The three other boys, when they started standing, they were walking within a day or two. Brandon has been standing pretty well by himself for a month now, but he still doesn't walk.}
{This is his other expression. His fingers go in his mouth like that all the time.}
{And lastly, I cleaned up for the Home Teachers tonight, so I decided to take a picture of our family room without the boxes. I am as happy as I can be with it for all the junk furniture we have in it, but since it is going to be a while before we get anything better, I guess I better learn to love it. By the way, what do most people do with all the wires that hang out from there TV when it is mounted on the wall. The way we have it is just tacky, but I don't know what else to do with them. }
There, now I am safe on that list for at least another week.

Our new toy!

Steve and I are not usually big spenders. Meaning, we prefer to spend our money on lots of small things, and rarely on big expensive things. Well, as you can see if you have been watching the blog this past 2 months, that has definitely changed. Our big spending is coming to a close though, so that we can afford to keep our home, but we had to go out with a bang, and here it is!


Last Friday we had this Electric Baby Grand Piano delivered to our house and we are LOVING it! I was a little concerned that it was going to be way too big for the room, but I think it looks great. Steve and I are getting lots of practice on it, and the boys are enjoying singing with it. Soon we will start Steven in piano lessons, and hopefully he will enjoy learning. As my friend Suzanne and I were just talking about, piano playing seems to be a dying art. I feel like Mormons used to be such a piano playing people, and now there are meetings all over the place that are begging for someone to play "at least the top hand". My personal goal is being good enough to play piano for my calling hopefully within the year.
After we made the big mess in the house the boys were karate chopping the styrofoam to get it to fit in to trash bags. A definite highlight to their day.

Here is baby Brandon sporting his Big Kahuna T from Hawaii. He looks happy doesn't he.

Books

I have another blog I am suppose to be doing, but I have to wait until I can get a good picture of me with Brandon smiling per Laura's request. We have all of course reconnected here at the Hughes homes and are moving on with life, but I will still get photo evidence. :)

In the meantime, I have something to say. I have been reading a TON this summer. Probably due to the fact that I haven't had a house to clean or a computer to play on for most of the summer. And then when I did move in to my house I was so hooked on books that I have been moving at a very slow pace. In fact I told Steve that I would be taking a break after the last book I read because I was losing sleep and important cleaning time because of it.
So, I finished "Return to Love" by Anita Stansfield (an LDS author) but I still wanted to have something to read at appropriate times. So, I decided to read a self help book that I have. Those don't seem to yell at you to pick them up like some other books do. And THAT book is what I want to share with you.

First: the story. For a time while we were living in Germany, Steve and I were having a pretty hard time in our marriage. I know, I am not suppose to admit such things in the perfect and peaceful world of blogging, but a lot of you already know anyways. So, without going into the private details, I decided to buy a book to see if it would do me any good.


This book was written for ME. I couldn't believe how well it described me and my flaws. I quickly changed my attitude towards Steve to save him from the misery that the men in this book have gone through. Now believe me, Steve had a lot of changing to do as well, but he so graciously let me take the first step. And, as I was nicer to him, he became nicer to me and so the ball started rolling in the upward direction instead of rolling down like it had been. To this day (about 2.5 years later) our marriage is still at a point that we are both happy, and feeling loved and respected by the other person.

So, the other day while I was at a book store I came across this book

Even though, I am happy in my marriage right now, I so respect Dr. Laura's views at this point I had to buy the book if not just for a refresher course. It was on sale for $5 too, so that helped. Anyway, the book is great. It talks about the wonderful characteristics of women and how they differ but compliment the wonderful characteristics of men. And how the womens movement, to make women the same as men, really hurt our society and our own individuality. I am thoroughly enjoying this book as I am learning new things about me, Steve and people in general.

So..... whether you are blissful in your marriage, miserable in your marriage, or somewhere in between, I recommend this book if not just to help you understand your spouse better. It is such an easy read as well. Enjoy!!

A PERFECT vacation

{Views from our hotel room}

If I could describe a perfect vacation, the one I just got back from would be it.
1. Perfect and beautiful place.
2. Gorgeous weather
3. Nice, friendly people
4. Very nice hotel
5. Paid for mostly by someone else
6. Lots of time spent all alone, doing whatever I wanted.
7. Lots of time spent alone with Steve enjoying one another.
8. A call to my Mom and children everyday to ask how things are going, and the answer always being, "things here are great!"
9. A call to Laura everyday to find out where to go, what to eat, or what to do, and her always there ready to give suggestions. She lived on Oahu for about 3 years, and knows that Island well. It was great to have someone to talk me through my vacation.

Could you really ask for more than that. I love, love, loved this 10 days we got to spend in Hawaii!

Now for the details:

MON.- Steve left about 6:30 for his class, and since I was jet lagged, I was ready to get out of bed too. I spent the first day going out to breakfast at "eggs and things", shopping in the cute little touristy shops, and then went out to the ocean. The water seemed SO salty to me, but maybe it was because I was just at Lake Tahoe. The beach was gorgeous and very relaxing though.
When Steve got home he brought snorkeling gear for both of us, and we went out to the water and practiced using our stuff. It was really fun and we saw some cool things in the water just outside of our hotel room in Honolulu.

TUES.- I got on the bus and headed to Laie to visit BYU Hawaii and to see the temple. I was able to do a session at the temple and the bus ride there took me on a road right along the coast so it was a beautiful drive.
{This street leading up to the temple is so gorgeous.}
After the temple I took the bus and meet up with Steve and his friend from work named John and we snorkeled at Haleiwa. We were swimming with a big sea turtle there which was very cool. This snorkeling experience kind of freaked me out though, because the reef was so close to the waters surface that you had to lay on it to get back to shore. I hated that, and kind of panicked when I was getting out, and scrapped my leg up. I didn't want the black spikey things to poke me! For dinner we went to Haleiwa Joes which had very good sea food.

WED.- I spent 4 wonderful hours at the Aloha Stadium shopping at the hugest flea market. It was so much fun, and I was all alone, so I could look at whatever I wanted and for as long as I wanted. Talk about Perfect. Steve met me there the last hour it was open and then we went back to the hotel for a nap. We had Jack in the Box for dinner that night, and just relaxed in front of the TV.

THURS.- This was the last day of Steve's class, so I just relaxed at the hotel and went to the beach. When he got home we went to Hanauma Bay to go snorkeling again. If you haven't guessed this was Steve's absolute favorite thing to do. Hanauma Bay was gorgeous and we saw lots of big fish and coral. It was here that I finally figured out that I think snorkeling makes me sea sick. Every time we went I came out of the water with a slight stomach ache and I couldn't figure out what it was. But this day I felt that motion sick feeling I have felt so many times in my life, and I finally realized that was the problem. It was so beautiful there though.

FRI.- This was my favorite day. We got to go to the Polynesian Cultural Center all day and I loved this place. It teaches you so much, and is so enjoyable as well. The dances are beautiful and unique from what I have ever seen, and the people are gorgeous. We got to go to the Luau there too and it was wonderful. We had a nice buffet dinner, and then went to see the show and I was amazed.
{Before we headed to the PCC we got to eat at our favorite place. I had to take this picture because while Steve and I were traveling around Europe, we told my sisters that our goal was to go to McDonald's in every country we went to. I think we just about accomplished that goal too. So, I thought I would let you all know that we continue that tradition with all of our travels. Breakfast was great by the way.}

{Our favorite guy at the PCC. He was doing the show for Samoa.}
{I had this horrible zit all day at the PCC, so I had to keep this hat on. I was trying to take a picture of it to see how bad it was. I showed Steve the picture expecting to get a response about how beautifully blue my eyes are, instead he asked me if I wanted him to erase it. Men!}
{These are some of the canoes in this canoe parade they did. It was amazing.}
SAT.- Guess where we went? Snorkeling again of course. Steve wanted to try snorkeling first thing in the morning, so that is where we headed on Saturday. I had had my fill by then, so I layed on the beach and read my book, while Steve snorkeled for 2 hours! He loved it, and I really enjoyed myself for the first hour and forty-five minutes. By the time he got out of the water, I was really ready to go. We went back to the hotel and rested and then went out to dinner at Red Lobster, one of our favorite places. Then Steve went back to the hotel to go to bed, and I went on a walk along the shoreline of Waikiki. I went about a mile down the beach and watched the sun set, it was very nice.
{Steve snorkeling out to sea}
SUN.- We went to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Sunday morning and rented the headphones that tell you all about it. We had a nice time there, and learned a lot about a tragedy that I did not know much about. I decided it was as devastating at the time for those people as Sept. 11th is for our generation. It does hit home harder when you live at the time that something like this happens.
After that we headed to church at the same ward Steve was born and blessed in. We really enjoyed our meetings there, and we also got an extra surprise. There is a family in that ward that had just moved in a month before, that I was friends with when we lived in Augusta. Suzanne and her husband Jared have 4 boys and live on Schofield barracks. She is such a wonderful person and invited Steve and I over for dinner on the spot. We went and had delicious BBQ hamburgers and really enjoyed their company.


MON.- Was Steve and I's 8th wedding anniversary. We have celebrated our last 4 anniversaries at a beautiful restaurant in a castle in Germany, so Steve had to make sure this anniversary was exciting since it would be breaking our tradition. And he did a fabulous job. We slept in that morning and then headed over to the north shore for some great Mexican food at Cholos, then we went to Matsumoto's to get some much talked about shave ice. It was really good, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I could because I was full from lunch. It was delicious though.
Then we decided we wanted to check out the Dole Pineapple Plantation. We went on a small little train ride around the plantation and learned a lot about pineapples. Then back at the visitor shop we paid $10.00 to open up an oyster and see what treasure we got inside. The oyster I picked had 2 beautiful black pearls in it, which are going to make fabulous earrings. What a great anniversary present from my dear husband.
That evening Steve had planned for us to go on a Sunset Cruise with a dinner buffet. So we got a little dressed up and headed out to the boat. It was so nice. The food was good, it was great to be there with Steve, and to go up top and watch the sunset was so peaceful and romantic. After the boat we went to a show that Steve wasn't sure what it was, and it ended up being a magic show. It was pretty cool. Not something that Steve or I love, but it was entertaining and we got to be there together, so I thought it was great.

{These pics are out in front of our hotel. The last two show our new love for the Hawaiian culture. (We are copying the statues in the back in case you are wondering)}

TUES.- the day we headed home. I woke up Tuesday morning very excited to go home and see the kids. A perfect vacation is one that ends at the perfect time too. I was ready to go home, but I wasn't so ready that I was getting antsy. It was just perfect. Our long traveling day got us home at 8:30am Wednesday where Mom and Tawna picked us up with Jacob and Brandon in tow. Brandon was so confused when he saw me. He had that look that said "I've seen you somewhere before, but I can't put my finger on it." He wouldn't smile at me, and was much happier with Mom or Tawna for at least the first 24 hours. In fact he preferred my Mom to me until we took her to the airport on Thursday. He has warmed up to me now though.

{ Back to good ole back scratches from 3 boys}So that is my wonderful vacation. I don't think it can ever be matched. I know I will travel a lot more in my life, but not when I am leaving so much responsibility behind. My Mom is truly amazing and has taught me so much and done so much for me. What a great example she is to do something so selfless and kind so that I could have a vacation. My kids were left in loving, capable hands, and I attribute most of my perfect vacation to that. Thanks Mom you are the BEST!

Last but not least is my wonderful sister "texting Tawna" :) This darling girl has only flown three places in all of her 19 years, and every time it was to come and take care of my darling boys. She is a one of a kind little sister and my sisters that are closer to my age and myself are thrilled to have her hopping from house to house. She is a joy to be with and does so good with our kiddos. We love you Tawna. (It's a bad picture I know, but it is all I got. Steve took it last night.)