Happy New Year to all of our friends and family! Let us know your New Year’s resolutions so that we can make fun of you for skipping out on them in a month! I’ve resolved to lose that last ten pounds and to resume learning Japanese, so wish me luck. Chrissy has resolved not to resolve anymore. I stopped going out...
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Even though we had already been to Chicago once this week, we were told that tonight would be the warmest it was going to be for a long time. So, what better night to walk around the Lincoln Park Zoo and look at Christmas lights? Every year, Lincoln Park Zoo has a “Zoo Lights” display from late November until early...
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We had planned to take the kids to Navy Pier for the day, starting with the Chicago Children’s Museum and then heading towards the end of the pier for the Winter Wonder Fest. We spent about two hours at the Children’s Museum, and there was a lot for Aiden to see and do. He really enjoyed the interactive exhibits,...
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Chrissy and I both graduated from Indiana University, so we love IU-branded stuff. We try to pick up new IU ornaments for our Christmas tree every year. We’ve been collecting them since 2002, when Chrissy graduated, so there are quite a few on our tree. Here are some of the ones that we currently have on display. We...
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I decided to play through “Mass Effect” a second time when the new downloadable content, “Bring Down The Sky”, was released by Bioware. Gavin was born shortly after that, so I wasn’t able to continue the game past the intro. Now that Gavin is a four months old and sleeping more, I’ve gotten a...
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We did send out a Christmas letter this year, but I wanted to post it to the web site anyway. Who knows, maybe somebody who isn’t on our holiday mailing list would like to know what we were up to this year? If you’re not on our Christmas card list, and would like to be, please let me know! The “online...
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I love to watch anime while feeding Gavin at night. It’s the perfect time for a guilty pleasure. With an exhausted Chrissy asleep by 8 PM, it was usually just me and Gavin up at ten, midnight, and later for feedings. He would need a bottle roughly every two or three hours. What else can you do while feeding the baby...
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I found out last weekend night that my Dad had suffered a heart attack on Saturday. Not a chest-grabber, just a recurring pain that made him want to visit the hospital. I was kind of shaken up about it; I don’t see my Dad nearly as often as I would like to, but I hoped that he was all right. He was recovering nicely by...
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