Carving the First Family Pumpkin

We spent the night carving our first family pumpkin. Believe it or not this will be Vanessa and I's fourth Halloween together, but the first time we have actually had the chance to carve one. It is a little bitter sweet as we now have to find a new Halloween tradition since we usually went "trick or treating" with the Fink kids. We are looking forward though to being able to hand out candy at our house this year.


We sure had a fun time carving the pumpkin and we did equal work to, we can't wait to taste the pumpkin seeds after we bake them! We are already trying to figure out the costume to dress our little one in next year, any suggestions would be great. We hope you have a safe and fun Halloween and hopefully you had or will have as much fun carving your pumpkins as we did.


We are so excited about becoming parents we bought our little one a pumpkin too, but thought it was to difficult of a challenge to carve the word "baby" in it so we just left it alone. It is hard to believe that on Halloween, Vanessa will be 12 weeks along and we have a doctors appointment set up that day to hear the heart beat for the very first time!!!!!!!!!

Balloon Glow 2007

Here are some pictures of the balloon glow we went to the other night. It is one of the highlights every year for the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. If any of you ever want to come down and experience this for yourself you are always welcome to stay with us. I can definately say Vanessa and I enjoyed this more than the mass acension, if only for the fact we did not have to wake up at 4:00am.

We are planning to go back in a few years when the little one can enjoy all the hot air balloons. Nine weeks down only 31 more to go!!!

Has it been one year already??

It is hard to believe that Vanessa and I have already made it through one year. I guess what they say is true, time does fly when you are having fun. What an amazing first year, of course the news of our new addition has definately been the biggest news by far, we are really proud to say that we were re-baptized on September 23rd. We have definately had a hunger to learn and grow with the Lord as much as we can before the little one arrives that way we can bring "it" up in a loving Godly home.

As for our anniversary we went out to a nice resturant called "Marcello's" and we can say that we prefer Lonestar or Texas Land & Cattle better than the fancy places. But for a special occasion it was nice. We enjoy a nice day on September 30th together, we had a couples massage and facials together and just spent the day relaxing. It was perfect!

Now our attention turns to the remaining 3 months of the year and starting to redecorate the new baby room whenever we find out the sex, which will probably be at the end of the year. We have our rooms picked out already now we just must wait to figure out whether we are decorating for a boy or a girl. Only a few more months until we can find out, stay tuned. . . .