Church services here are a little... different. Sure they are small, but I'm used to small. I got used to that on my mission and during the last two years that we have been in Cyprus.

Following Justin's lead, this is my year in review by cities:

• Akrotiri, Cyprus
• Chania, Crete
• Paris, France
• Provo, Utah
• Rigby, Idaho
• Salt Lake City, Utah
• Ucon, Idaho
• Valleta, Malta
• Ypsonas, Cyprus

Spent at least one night in all of these cities.

I'm guessing that few of you know that feeling you get when you are working on a remote computer halfway across the world and apply a change, only to never have it come back. I liken it to standing on the edge of a cliff that doesn't have any railing and looking over the precipice.

Well, thanks to my father who patiently stayed up late so that I could walk him through a few troubleshooting steps, it's back. So thanks Dad! It's nice to have something to work on over here in the free time.

A whole lot has happened in our lives. Here's the Reader's Digest version:

Well... almost.

I stepped outside to go to work yesterday and my scooter was nowhere to be seen. I asked Cheri if she had moved it and she asked me if I was trying to play a joke on her. I thought maybe she was trying to play a joke on me. After we determined that nobody was trying to fool the other, I went to the roof to have a look around. No scooter in sight.

Well that sucked.

I haven't mentioned it in quite a while so I thought I would give an update on my progress towards getting my PPL. The good news is that I haven't crashed and died yet. Yay!! Though I probably owe most of the credit for that to my in-laws who have told me they pray their daughter won't be a widow in the near future.

Jonathan likes experimenting with all the different noises he can make. They range from imitating things he hears Mom and Dad say to just weird, random noises. Cheri got this great video of him playing on a local jungle gym.

Cheri has done a really good job with teaching Jonathan to communicate through sign language. He has understood what the different signs mean for quite a while now. When we ask him if he is hungry and wants food, he'll get excited as his way of telling us yes.

We went to the doctor for Cheri's first checkup last Monday. Everything looked fine until he started looking for a heart beat and found nothing. To our sorrow, it appears that baby's heart has stopped beating.

We are saddened to think that baby will not join us as part of our family. We know that it's ok and that things turn out the way they are supposed to turn out. But we will still miss our little baby.

Two days ago, Jonathan actually left the safety of the coffee table and took two steps all on his own. Then yesterday, at Bob and Haley's flat, he took 5 steps. At work this morning, I got an IM from Cheri saying that he just took 11 steps. And by the time I got home, he could walk around as long as he wanted.

I knew he could walk once he got the confidence, but that was so quick! I don't know if I was quite ready to say goodbye to my crawling baby just yet. But ready or not, our little man is growing up.