Winter is here!

Hello, it's me, Kramer. Winter is here and Mandi tells me the new heat inside the house is nice and warm. She says they get to have it above 65 degrees! Too bad I'm not allowed inside. Michael and his dad have been working in the woods by our house to clear out the dead trees and small bushes. I like it because I can see more animals to bark at. Michael hopes to make a nature trail in the Spring once he has it all clear. Mandi was a chaperone for the Winter Ball at White's again this year. Here are some pictures of her and Jill and some of their students. (She had to blur out their faces... you know, privacy issues.) As you can see, it was just as much fun for her as it was for the kids!

Mandi also got a new shirt.

Merry Christmas...a little early!

I am writing this on my Christmas present- a new laptop! Michael was very cute; he couldn't wait to give it to me.

And, the final baby name poll is over, and of course Olivia was the big winner. Thanks for voting! Now we will just have to wait for the baby to see what name he or she will really have.

On Thursday night some friends and I went to Make It Your Own Pottery in Wabash. We got pizza, painted our pottery, and had a blast! Here are some pictures of Mary, Christine, Shelby, and me.

Happy Halloween!

We had two trick-or-treaters tonight. Dalayna was one of the characters from High School Musical and Bryce was a cowboy. Aren't they cute!

As for the baby name polls, we have reached the end of the second round of voting. Mya was the run-away winner with 7 votes this time. We thought, just for fun, we would do one last poll with the top girl names and see who the overall winner is. Now is the time for all of you Olivia -lovers to do your thing!

What is wrong with you people?!

Okay, so we apparently have some rebels among us. We get that you like Olivia; that is quite obvious, but... there are other perfectly good names out there. What happens if we choose Mabel or Gertrude? You all will just have to get over it!! (And I say that with as much love as possible!)

It was a tight race...for second place!

Well, Kendall was the favorite name this week with 7 seven votes. Tied for second place with 4 votes apiece were Kamryn, Keira, and Olivia. Lily was in third with only 2 votes. Hope you enjoy the next round of girls' names!

Our friend Jill gave us this adorable gift. Isn't it precious?

And the winner is...

All you faithful blog watchers have voted on our baby names, and the winner is... Evan with a whopping 7 votes! Patrick was in second place with 6 and Aiden came in third with 5 votes. Too bad Michael's favorite, Elvind, didn't get any votes at all. So, we are moving on to the girls' names. As we said earlier, we have lots more girls' names picked out, so we'll have to split them up this time. We hope you are having as much fun voting as we are having looking at your choices!

New Heat!!

We finally are done transitioning from gas boiler heat to all electrical. Thanks to Michael's dad for doing so much work. It was much appreciated. Now all we have to do is clean up and dust the whole house again. Over the next few weeks we thought it would be fun to have a poll and let readers of our blog vote for which baby name they like the best. We have quite a few girls' names picked out, but not too many boys'. We will start off with boys' names. Please vote and let us know what you think. Disclaimer: the winning name is not necessarily the one that will be chosen! Oh, Kramer says Hi.