More Videos!

Here are just some more videos of Noel's everyday activities. (And notice how similar they are to the things a frat boy might do daily.)

Click on the links:

Throws up on himself
Works out his upper body
Attends parties
Wears ties

Videos!

Noel doing cute stuff - Click on the pictures to get to the videos

Watching Billy Joel:


Taking Baths:


Reminiscing:


Hanging Out with Murph:


Snoozing:

Noel!

Since last posting a lot has happened - namely that we had a baby! Noel Alexander arrived the day after Christmas. We'll post most pictures and videos here.

Love,

Meg & Dan

Dunsmuir, California: Panorifics

Dan & I went to Northern California for a long weekend. Above are just a few of my favorite pictures from the trip. I'll add more in later posts. Enjoy...

1st picture: Mossbrae falls, Meg on Rock
2nd picture: Place where we stayed
3rd picture: Front porch of our cabin
4th picture: Sacramento River, Meg in 2 places
5th picture: Mt. Shasta & Dan jumping

We're In San Diego Right Now

We just got here today. So far we've eaten some American food, got a Ralph's grocery card, listened to crashing ocean waves, and we found a walkie talkie. Currently, we're trying to make contact with the people with the other walkie talkie while Dan teaches everyone how to play Settlers of Catan. Below is a picture of the sunset before dinner. More later.

Published Article, Planned Events & a Projector

Ok, so I never posted pictures of Murph in her party hat back in the summer, but trust me, it was awfully cute. Today she is sleeping beside me sporting a very dapper Christmas sweater that her step-cousin, Max, so kindly gifted her.

Here are some updates from the last 6 months or so...

* Dan wrote an article/review about this 17th century guide to game rules for the "Lost & Found" section of the literary magazine where he interned over the summer, and they've decided to publish it!! Once they accepted it, he had to do some speed editing to get it in before the deadline, but he made it, and it's due to come out in March. Anyone interested in getting a copy can buy one from tinhouse.com in the spring. Or, if you would like yours autographed, we would be happy to arrange that for you. :) Currently Dan is interning for Tin House's books department and working on some personal writing projects, which in his words involve "bizzare, nano-rific cartoonery."

* For a couple of months, I've been planning a German-style Christmas Market at work, and it finally went down on Tuesday. It came off as well as I hoped - we sold out of vendor spaces, we got carolers & live music, and people showed up! My German friends will be happy to know that the hot, mulled wine ("Glühwein") was a hit... but that may have had to do with its being 12 degrees outside. This was the first year for the event & they want it for a second year, so I guess it's going to be an annual thing. Now that it's over, I'm working with a local theater on their annual Oscar Night fundraiser, along with the theater director, their volunteer organizer, a guy I know from Nike, and of all people, Everclear lead singer, Art Alexakis, so that's exciting.

* But perhaps more exciting than any of the above: As our Christmas gift to each other, Dan & I bought a projector. The stork brought it on Wednesday, and I think it will take some time for the novelty to wear off. We are now doing a lot more sitting. We christened the machine by watching It's a Wonderful Life & drinking wine, and since have viewed a number of music videos, episodes of Nova, the American Experience, Charlie Brown Christmas, Best in Show, parts of the Dark Side of Oz, Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer, & A Christmas Carol. On New Year's Eve we already have plans to have some friends in for cocktails and to watch Dinner for One, Clue & a marathon of Twilight Zone episodes on the big screen.

Please visit. :) (But not in late January, as we're going to California & possibly Bend again.) We will house & feed you!!

Over a year...

I told you I'd update this! Here are things that have happened since I last posted something:

1. We got a dog and named her Murph. Her first birthday is tomorrow. Check back in then for awfully cute pictures of her in a party hat.

2. I got a different job... & health insurance!

3. Our apartment got progressively dirtier.

4. 40-year record snows fell on Portland around Christmas time throwing off flights home, but we did make it back for a visit.

5. Dan & I were in the "worst day of the year" ride on Dan's birthday. It's an 18 mile route through Portland in February with food/drinks stops about every 5 miles or so. It actually turned into of the nicest days of the year so far.

6. Dan got a bad-ass internship!

7. I started volunteer teaching English to immigrants/refugees from various countries at a local community college. I like it.

8. We discovered that people outside of the Midwest... or maybe the Michigan/Ohio/Indiana Tri-state area...have no idea what Euchre is. (** I just looked it up on wikipedia & apparently folks also play it in the UK, Canada, Australia & New Zealand) Luckily, we also figured out that we have neighbors from Detroit & South Bend.

9. We took a trip down to Bend, Oregon & it was the best 2 days I've had in a good while. (I will post pictures once we get our "funsaver" developed. On our trip back we hiked at Smith Rock & stopped at the Timberline Lodge. The lodge has a somewhat interesting history as a WPA project, but is even more notable as the exterior of the "Overlook Hotel" in the Shining!

10. I have a round-trip ticket from here to Florida at the end of August. I will day dream every day until then about shrimp & margaritas.

So, yeah, the year went well. We both took May 1st off to celebrate the anniversary of the move. We drove by the 1st house we lived in here, went to a couple of parks, took in the city from 30 floors up at the Portland City Grill, and then got hot wings at Fire on the Mountain, the 1st place we ate the night we arrived. We tried to go see the Big Lebowski in theather, and that fell through, but we did run into some friends from earlier in the year.

That's all for now...hope you all feel caught up. Like I said above, check back in tomorrow!