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Our Calvin Snowman

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If you’ve ever read Calvin and Hobbes, you’ll know what type of snowmen Calvin creates – full of character, pretty funny, and maybe just a bit morbid. In December we got the first big snow of the season, and Josh and I (inadvertently) created our own Calvin snowman.

He started out just fine, see?

We used some remnants of our Halloween costumes for the hat and glasses. Cute, huh?

But the next day, to our horror, we looked out the window and saw this:

Alas, someone had shot our snowman in the back! Okay, not really. It’s actually just another disaster with Rit dye (will that stuff ever stop haunting me?). I guess the hat had some traces of red dye on it. And then it rained during the night and, voila, our snowman has a red bullet stain on his back.

But the funny part is, our snowmen started to act like he did get shot. Observe what happened over the next day and a half (with no intervention on our part):

Tragic, isn’t it? And we didn’t even mean to make such a morbid snowman…still, he gave us a lot of laughs. :)

Still Here (and with a heater, too)

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Hello! We’ve neglected posting for the past little bit, and now we want to catch up. Overall, life is good! We spent Christmas and New Year’s with the Lymans in Parker, and it was awesome. Some of my favorite activities were watching Zach play Dangerous Hunts, listening to Chris and Caleb jam on the guitar and piano, playing Mastermind with Luke, playing Just Dance with Heather, and eating delicious food with everyone all vacation long. Great vacation!

Josh started a new semester and is enjoying his classes, and work is going well for me. We still love living in the house we’re renting. Last week we came home from work and school, walked in the door, and noticed right away that it was cold – about 60 degrees cold, our thermostat told us. Our heater had somehow gone out that day. But after looking at the heater, looking up fix-it-yourself instructions online, not fixing the heater, calling the landlords, and waiting a bit, an electrician finally came and, hooray! fixed the heat that night. Our landlords were awesome and very helpful, so thank you! While we waited I did a lot of cooking in the kitchen (it was warmest by the oven), and then we wore our hoodies and laid under lots of covers and played iPod games. Not a bad night, really.

So, life is good! And since pictures are more fun than paragraphs, here are some recent pictures, in in no particular order. Enjoy!

Some Pictures

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…of our visit to Texas over Thanksgiving. We’ve got more pictures, but here are a couple my mom sent me. We had a blast! Highlights include Thanksgiving dinner, spending time with the family, playing Just Dance on the Wii, watching Texas high school football playoff games, playing Tron (not till 3 a.m., as we’ve done in the past, but still till late), eating delicious food, laser tag, and overall just lots of fun. Thanks, Ellsworth family!

Happy (late) Halloween!

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Josh and I were Waldo and Wenda for Halloween, from the Where’s Waldo? books. We made/assembled our costumes, and I think they turned out really well:

My work had a Halloween/food drive/flu shot party that we went to, and it was a lot of fun. People liked our costumes, and we got some funny comments like, “Don’t lose each other, you might not find each other again!” My favorite was one lady who said to Josh, “Now, I don’t see your cane and your cup, so I must have to go and find it…” I had totally forgotten about having to search for Waldo’s cane and cup! Anyone else remember that?

Anyway, the holiday was way fun, but making our shirts involved my first experience with Rit dye, and…well, let’s just say it might be my last. ;-) I tried to follow instructions from a friend and what Josh and I found online, but maybe we didn’t do things quite right because after we washed our shirts after Halloween they looked like this:

(On the plus side, it’s a pretty cute pink jammy shirt though, right?) Ruining the shirts aside, we now also have 3 purple dish cloths (instead of blue ones), 2 salmon-colored towels (instead of gold ones), two now-pink white undershirts (thank goodness we wore cheap ones), a pink ironing board cover, and a pile of pink rags. I promise I’m not as dumb as I sound…it’s just that some Rit dye ended up some places I wasn’t expecting. Oh, adventures in laundry. Sometimes I feel like I’m still finding traces of the stubborn dye around the house…so, yes, I’ll probably stay away from scarlet Rit dye from now on. ;-)