It was Beth's birthday yesterday. For her birthday, I took her out to dinner at Stacy's, the place we tried to go to a couple weeks ago but it was closed. I had an orange roughy that was excellent, Beth got a seafood platter (all fried) that was so-so at best. I thought the place was great. Beth thought it was so-so. The ambience reminded me a lot of Fred's Fish House in Arkansas but the food was better. After dinner, we went to see "Walk the Line," which may have been right on the money about Johnny Cash and June Carter, for all I know. During the movie I was rooting for her to get away from him because she deserved better, but maybe they actually deserved each other. Anyway, I know Beth's dad thought she was a floozy who trapped him and he was a good man. Anyway, if nothing else, I thought it really captured how all of Johnny Cash's songs sound the same. Our new church directory pictures were taken on Friday, and we got lucky. Both kids were in a good mood, willing to hold still a little bit, and smiled. It looks like we got some good ones. Afterwards was our Bible study small group get-together at Hacienda, at which the kids had had enough, cried and whined, made a lot of noise, and wouldn't sit still. Not their fault...we had them out too long without them being able to play. Missy got her first haircut earlier in the week so she'd look pretty for the pictures, which went ok, but Alex had a huge huge huge fit when we got his hair cut, and even seeing daddy get his hair cut as he was having his done didn't help. He cried and carried on like we were killing him. Again.