He welcomed the hug and returned it just as energetically, laughing lightly.

"Yeah, we are!" Stepping back, he snickered some and brushed his hair back a bit. "The idea came up a couple weeks ago, and we've been talkin' hard about it since then. Lexi spoke to her uncles, and I even gave her Doc's address and she visited him for a while. Ultimately she decided she would follow me back to the Rock, when the idea of me doing that in the first place came up in a conversation."