Fascinating Read

I'm famous. My thesis finally showed up in the UW library catalog. There's two copies for everyone's reading enjoyment.

Also, my advisor presented some of our work at POF 2008 (The 17th International Conference on Polymer Optical Fiber). I ran across the program in my periodic googling of my name today.

November???

I can't believe November is almost over.  I was thinking about something to post about...nothing too exciting, just living our little life here in Albuquerque.  I only had 2 pictures from the month of November.  My parents came over Veteran's day weekend and we had a great visit with them.  My mom and Ryan made Gingerbread cookies.  And true to my Mom's Kindergarten teacher self, she even sent Ryan on a little Gingerbread man hunt when they escaped off the cooling rack.  

Ryan is still constantly making us laugh by the little phrases he comes up with.  We have to be VERY careful what we say, because we know we will hear it again, coming out of Ryan's mouth.  The other day he gave ME two choices, a happy choice and a sad choice of things I should do...something he obviously hears a lot.  

Andrew is all over the place.  I am sure he will be our child that has all of the broken bones, he usually is sporting at least one bruise on his face and I think he gets a bloody lip at least twice a week.  He is so different from Ryan in that he gets into EVERYTHING.  We didn't have to toddler proof much with Ryan, but Andrew is teaching us how to do it now.  He is so sweet and I think we treat him like he is 6 months old still, but oh well.  Soon enough we will have a real baby in the house again and he'll have to become a big boy then!

My pregnancy is going great.  My only complaint is my nasty varicose veins developing on my legs.  My doctor finally told me that I had to start wearing support hose all the time, or they will get worse and not go away.  It is the most uncomfortable thing in the world to wear nylons ALL of the time.  But I know lots of women have it a lot worse, so I will try not to whine too much about it!

We are excited to go to Denver next week for Thanksgiving.  We have so much to be thankful for!

HaLlOwEeN

What a cute elephant and gorilla!

Ryan had lots of fun trick or treating.  He was a real trooper.  I kept asking him if he wanted me to hold his bucket, but he said he was ok.  People gave him handfuls at a time!  We only went down our street and by the end, his bucket was totally full.  We did take Andrew, but after a few houses, I brought him back home.  He liked getting the candy and would say "please".  But he just wanted to bang his flashlight on the sidewalk and he was slowing us down :)  Something kind of fun about trick or treating in Albuquerque is that a lot of neighbors sit out on their porches to hand out candy.  I've heard that in some neighborhoods they even sit out on the sidewalk and chit chat with each other and the kids can just zoom down the street collecting candy.  How efficient!

Spencer and I went to a fun Halloween party.  If you can't tell, we are obviously a Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol man and a surprised housewife.  It was a big hit, and yes, Ryan and Teri, we totally copied you!!!  

Oor friend Max joined us again for Halloween festivities.  You might remember him from last year.