Today was a busy day of preparation. At noon we picked up the U-haul truck for our trip to Nebraska tomorrow. The boys are staying behind so it’ll just be me and Josh in the truck. The bigger kids are on their way home from the youth gathering and are supposed to arrive back around 1 in the morning. Laura’s dad has been driving all day today with the gathering kids and then will get up tomorrow and drive to Nebraska.

Ethan and I spent a significant amount of time together. He has the rest of the week off and spent today at home going through his room and sorting through the rest of his stuff. He asked if there was a limit on what he could keep here and I said there was none. Any clothes he wanted to keep I said he had to take with him. There is quite the pile in the schoolroom of stuff he felt he could part with and did not need anymore.

We went and got his haircut also. There is a woman from group who is cutting hair now and I felt like she should be the one to do the job. We stopped by Jimmy Johns for lunch and later we drove to Havana to pick up the television and tv stand from another camp friend. One the way I heard about the plans for the bachelor party. They plan to hang out at camp and then the best man and his brother are going to grill for everyone.

Eleven of his track and cross country teammates are coming to the wedding and will be at the bachelor party too. They will eat and then go down to the lake to swim. After that they will hike to high point and spend the night there in tents. He said they planned to have like an outdoor chapel service where they also had the guitar and song books. I asked about his younger brothers, if they would be invited to go He said they would.

Then he asked about him and the groomsmen getting ready at our house. I said I hadn’t planned on that but we could make it work. My sister and her family will be staying in the basement over the weekend. I said they could use the upstairs to get ready. As soon as we were back from there Dad and Ethan loaded up the rest of the stuff and left to drive to Auburn to fill the van and the back of the traverse with Laura’s belongings.