It's time to decorate again! No really, I'm not joking.

Some people may find this odd but we have always traditionally started decorating for Christmas right after Holloween. For all of you out there who think this is too early all I can say is too bad so sad. :) It literally does take me most of the month of November to put most of it up. The lights and stuff anyway. Kira will take care of the little decorations while I have responsibility for the lights on the house, the trees, and the Christmas village. Kira has accepted my whole manic obsession when it comes to this so she has just learned to let me handle it. She appreciates the way it looks when it is done though. Here is our first major accomplishment. The tree in hunters room. Savannah's is not up yet and I moved the furniture around the front room to make room for our big tree. Our big tree usually takes me a good 10-12 hours. I also put up the lights on Kira's grandparent house so it is going to be a busy three weeks.I find the Elmo tree topper to be a perfect touch to the Sesame Street Ornaments Kira spent weeks upon weeks cross stitching.

Another miracle

Everytime I see one of these ultrasounds I am astounded at the whole miracle that is occuring. Look at this beautiful little boy. 17 weeks, about 5 inches long and yet he is prescious beyond words to us and he is not even here. Thank you to my wonderful wife for going through the difficult part of having a baby so we can add to our little family. You are amazing honey, I love you!

Halloween

I have been very negligent with my blog lately. School has been pretty intense. So I am going to attempt to quickly catch up. Here is Halloween.

The pumpkin carving went great.

Here is our sweet little honey jar.

Savannah was a pretty fairy.

When he is not leading the Autobots he is also known as Hunter.

The kids had a great time. We went around our neighborhood and collected way too much candy with some of our friends from the ward. I thoroughly enjoyed helping the kids eat their ... um I mean distribute/ration their candy. :)

Post election thoughts

So I have been gathering my thoughts for a few days about the results of the election. I have heard a lot of reactions from co-workers and friends. Most of them seem to be talking about how disastrous the results are, how our country is doomed, etc. etc.. I am grateful for a different perspective that I heard from Glenn Beck this week on the radio. I am a big Glenn Beck fan and I heard this conversation on his show so I looked up the transcript.

So I think that I have come to the determination that I am an American and I believe in the constitution. Barrack Obama is going to be our next President, I did not vote for him but for the sake of our country I hope he succeeds. I hope he is able to help our economy. I hope he is able to help in foreign policy. I want him to be successful, I do not want to be a person that sits there hopeing he will fail so I can feel justified in my disagreements with him. I can accept him as my President and I will support him in any way I can as long as I am not compromising my principles and beliefs.

So with that I am done talking politics. I have some great stuff to catch up on in regard to the kids. We have ultra sound pictures, its going to be a boy! :)

Visiting Hunter's School for "Spider's Tea"

So Hunter's class had a little show and tell type get together on Thursday that I was able to go to. (Have I ever mentioned my employer is awesome when it comes to letting me go to stuff like this?) I think what was the neatest about the experience was how excited Hunter was to see me there. Not in an ego boosting I am such a great dad sort of way but in a he realized he was important enough for me to come sort of way. I think that as a parent it is easy to forget how important it is to our kids in regard to stuff like this. And with all of the deadlines hovering over my head back at the office I was able to do something much more important. He is such a neat boy and is growing up so quickly I just want to soak in every minute of it.