My "New Year's Resolution" for 2009 was to get our house on the market to see if it would sell, and if it did to get a new house bought and moved into. And I ACCOMPLISHED IT!! :) The only niggling detail left to be dealt with is getting our stuff out of the storage unit down by our old house. I have the next two weekends after we are back from ( Read more... )

Happy new year from London ( Read more... )

I'd like to try to sum up the past few days, but not sure how to do so without spending the rest of my awake time this evening doing so. We've spent most of the past week in Austin for our Rice friends' annual New Year's shindig. Essentially what happens is that events are scheduled (or not...some things happen last minute) and folks are notified ( Read more... )

We're in Austin; got here sometime between 9:30 and 10:00 ( Read more... )

We headed to Austin on Saturday afternoon, arriving in time for dinner with my family Saturday night. After getting Corwin to bed, Andrew and I ran off to the Gregorys' house for some socialization and game playing. We got home around 11:30 to find Corwin awake and drinking a bottle in my mom's lap. We all got to bed by shortly after midnight, ( Read more... )

Andrew and I are supposed to be off at the annual New Year's party catching up with our college friends. You know, being all adult-like and stuff, while my parents babysit Corwin for us. Instead, we are hanging out at my parents' house, because Corwin picked yesterday to come down with his very first cold ever ( Read more... )

Andrew and I are back from Austin now. This was a more mellow trip than we have had in a while. We arrived at my parents' house Friday evening close to 8:00, after a drive made longer and more stressful than usual by lightning storms and very heavy rainfall along the way. Needless to say, we crashed once we got there, and didn't end up going out ( Read more... )