Beginning of the Christmas season

We got all of our Christmas lights up early to kick off the holiday season. And our "adorable" cat, Killian knocked over our Christmas tree, just 2 days after we put it up. We've had the same artificial tree up for 4 years with that cat and he's never done that, but he is a bigger trouble maker this year. He denies all culpability.

Some of the ornaments broke, but overall it could have been worse. Still a little tweaking to do on the the outdoor lights.

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
We spent the yesterday and today at my folks new house. We ate the traditional turkey/stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and had an apple pie and a chocolate pecan pie too.

Today we went back over for the Colorado/Nebraska game. The Buffaloes won 65-51! and became bowl eligible. Not bad from a 2-10 season last year. Texas lost today to Texas A&M, but still have a shot at the big 12 title game if Oklahoma loses to Oklahoma St.

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

28 weeks 3 days

Well we're officially in the third trimester! It's hard to believe. I think the first trimester went by somewhat slow but the second tri went a lot faster. I have a feeling with the holidays coming this last tri is going to go by fast too! Although I'm sure it won't feel that way those last couple weeks!

Thursday was Russ's birthday! We went out to a nice dinner Thursday night, just the two of us. And tonight we went out again with Russ's parents to the Melting Pot, which was great!





Here's a really cute picture of Killian whose taken to sitting in a little photo box on the new desk. He totally doesn't fit, but it doesn't seem to bother him!

27 weeks and 3 days

Just a quick post with some pictures because it's getting late and I need to get to bed!


Me :-)


And here's our crib in the Baby room!

new desk

Our most ambitious carpentry project yet. Lots of priming, painting, measuring, and finding someone with a table saw.

More Baby Stuff!

This past week we bought two big baby items; a stroller and a dresser! We're super excited about our BOB Revolution jogging stroller that Russ got highly discounted from the latest REI garage sale! It's sweet! :-) We also picked up a dresser for cheap on craigslist. We're giving it a new coat of white paint and replacing the white pulls with silver knobs.







We've had a very productive weekend at the Denny house! We cleaned our grout and tile in our kitchen and resealed it today. I've been spending a lot of time organizing all kinds of stuff. Now we're working on getting the new desk setup! We'll add some pictures when it's done.

Today I'm 26 weeks and 3 days! I've been feeling the baby move for several weeks now, which is the coolest thing! Russ got to feel the baby move for the first time when we were in Bermuda. Lately the kicks are getting a lot stronger, every once in awhile they catch me be surprise! I'm still doing good! I'm a little more tired than non-pregnant Michelle and my sides (hip muscles?) get sore at the end of the day, but overall I feel good!

A Scary Halloween!!!

Yesterday afternoon, a bank (Wachovia Bank) branch about 1 mile from our house was robbed by 3 armed men! I drove on an errand from our house and noticed all the police cars and police ribbon around the bank. When I got back from my errand, a police helicopter was circling over our neighborhood.

About 15 police cars were cruising around and we learned on the news that they caught 2 of the 3 men. They had crashed a Ford Mustang into a ditch (no further than 1/2 mile from our house) and the car completely burned up. They arrested one of the men at the car crash site, and another in someone's backyard using a police dog.

The 3rd man got away. About 30 mins after the police basically left our neighborhood, our neighbor and his wife saw a young man come out of the storm gutter through the man hole cover!! He had been hiding out.

This is 2 houses down from where we live. He had a cell phone and was picked up by an accomplice in a Nissan pickup!! The police caught him today, but it was a weird Halloween.

We had about a dozen groups of kids trick or treating last night. And we watched the James Cameron movie Aliens.

[Michelle here adding on...] Here's what I wore to work yesterday for Halloween, I was a pregnant school girl :-) And check out the sweet pumpkin cutout we had in our front yard. Some of you might remember this sign. Before I moved to Texas my Dad cut the board into the shape of a pumpkin and painted it!