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Date

02 NOV 09 | 7:12PM

Summary

Enjoying the last few hours of daylight in November.

November has rolled around again and the days have shortened and the temperatures have dropped. The only downside to all of this is that it’s getting tougher for me to get home before the sun has set, making it difficult to play in the back yard with Asher.

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So here are our last few evenings out in the backyard while there’s still light out.

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Date

31 OCT 09 | 11:33PM

Summary

A spooky night of fun with friends and family.

This year we definitely saw an increased level of interest from Asher when it came to getting into the Halloween spirit. We were invited up to Brigham’s house for a Halloween party with food, games and trick-or-treating, so we decided that we’d better all find costumes quickly.

Asher really liked his pirate costume, and at times refused to take it off. Jill and I, on the other hand, had a tough time settling on a costume, and eventually decided to build our own costumes just hours before the party. Armed with only a couple of moving boxes, styrofoam bowls and a few cans of spray paint, we assembled ourselves into red and yellow Lego blocks. We thought they turned out surprisingly well.

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We had a lot of fun a Brig’s house and Mom and Dad plus Tiffani and all her kids came up from Houston to join the fun. Brig indulged my inner-geek and let me bring up the computer controlled lights, laser and fog machine to deck out his garage for the evening’s trick-or-treaters. It also turned out well and we got several compliments. To make the evening better, we even got to catch some of the UT game on someone’s 10-foot projector!

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Date

30 OCT 09 | 4:25PM

Summary

Watching the soap box races at Texas State.

As part of Texas State’s Homecoming tradition, a series of soap box races are held on campus the day before the Homecoming game. I unfortunately didn’t get a chance to go, though Jill and Asher couldn’t miss out on the opportunity to see the homemade box cars race down the hills of campus at breakneck speeds.

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Asher really enjoyed cheering on the racers, thought the entire event probably filled his head with ideas of doing something similar. If only I could get Jill to approve of that...

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Date

24 OCT 09 | 3:24PM

Summary

The flowers bloom on Jill's rose bush.

While Jill and I would never claim to have green thumbs, we have been trying to make the best of a year-long drought in Kyle. We have been on watering restrictions since March and had one of the hottest summers in history.

Nevertheless, Jill has been diligent in keeping her rose bush in front of the house alive. As the weather has cooled down and the rain has come, we’ve seen an explosion of buds and flowers springing alive. It adds a great amount of color to the front of the house and has provided hours of entertainment to Asher who loves to water it each week.

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Date

23 OCT 09 | 9:15PM

Summary

Celebrating with Brig and Stephanie.

Tonight we were invited over to Brig and Stephanie’s house to celebrate Stephanie’s birthday. Given that Jill and I often let our own birthdays pass quietly, it was a lot of fun to go to a party with presents, cake, balloons and ice cream.

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Mason really got into his dessert and we enjoyed an evening hanging out with the family.

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