According to the Chinese gender calender Mikey and I are having a boy.  This is actually inline with my prenatal dreams. Mikey still thinks it's a girl, but I have a mother's intuition and the Chinese on my side. I really like the name Ari for a boy, but we have received some negative feed back on it, but I still like it.

 Stuffed bugz for christmas presents.  They're everywhere.

                                                               
                                                               

Some family pictures from this October.   Even though they were kind of a drag this year, we took away the best we could from them. Thanksgiving was good, mostly because of the long, hilarious, conversations about the old days. Years from now I wonder what it will be like sitting around a big thanksgiving table with my kids and their kids, talking about way back when. 

HALLOWEEN!!

a new place

after moving Scott and Whitney Christopherson from their place, Mandy and I decided to move in. Barely unpacked and sore, we realize it may be a while until we move again somewhere...but in the meantime we have our friends here Chris, Jillayne, Eric, Allison, and of course Gladys.

Mikey's twenty-fifth

Yes the cake does have a knight confronted by a four headed dragon, and yes the knight is sporting a swan on it's head....best decorations I have ever put on a cake

What we've learned about each other so far...

Mikey is a faster runner and swimmer.
Mandy is better at Boggle.