Just because I thought this was funny. ~Mike

Holidays are Fast Approaching

So I'm sitting here writing this while Mike is out at his office holiday party.  He was nice enough to attend without the wife, so I could relax.  Work has been really busy and difficult and I'm looking forward to the holiday break.  

We've got all the presents wrapped, house decorated, cookies baked and now we are just waiting for Christmas Eve at the Stewart/Berens!  Dinner of 7 Fishes, Church, Drinks and the hot tub...ah...gotta love that!

We're spending Christmas at home with just us and the dog.  It's going to be pretty low-key, which will be different.  This is the first year that I will spend the holidays without anyone from my immediate family, which scares me a little.  I've spent 26 Christmases with my brother and this will be the first without him :(

We're heading to GR for the Hormuth family Christmas on Jan. 1st and will be staying with the Hagleys and Burns families at Hotel Hagley.  Can't wait to see Michelle and her belly full of babies!  I still can't believe your having triplets, Michelle!  Hopefully, you'll let me make you dinner or something one night.  Kyla, your still on toilet cleaning duty, right?

Then...back to the grind :(

I hope everyone who reads this has a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

XOXOXO

Christina

Deck the Halls!

Mike and I (or maybe it was just me) were excited to get our holiday decorations up in the new house for our first Christmas here. I convinced Mike to get two trees to decorate :)

It took us about 2 days over the Thanksgiving holiday to finish putting everything up, but I think we are now officially into the Christmas spirit! Most of my shopping was done on "cyber Monday" so I'm looking forward to a relaxing the next few weeks wrapping gifts and baking cookies.

Turkey Day!

We had a very blessed Thanksgiving this year with the Fearing family! Lots of turkey (14 lbs thanks to Mike's excitement at the grocery store), sides and dessert (yummy peach cobbler!).

Emi enjoyed sharing her whipped cream with everyone :)

Can't wait for next year!

Random Post

Colby sympathizing with my blindness....

Basement Renovation

Since my first drywall experiment at our old place didn't go so well, we hired some help to finish the basement: http://picasaweb.google.com/hormuth/BasementRenovation#slideshow

InterHall Football Tradition

Just thought I'd share a cool article that talks about InterHall football at ND. As much as I loved being a manager, the one thing I regret was that it only allowed me to play one year of InterHall football. And we sucked.

Cool random fact: InterHall football exists largely because of support from Knute Rockne...I just learned the other day that Rockne grew up in the exact same neighborhood that we just moved into.

~Mike

My First Post...

Okay...so we've decided to switch from a website to a blog.  This will allow me (Christina) to post more since Mike was the only one posting on our first website.  He's asking for trouble by giving me access! :)

We recently returned from our trip to Puerto Rico with our friends, Jan and Shaun, who I affectionately call Shan or Jaun :)  Check out the pictures below.  Had a blast and really enjoyed the warm weather versus the cold crap we came back home to in Chicago.  It's already snowed a couple times!

I'm hoping we post on this thing more often than just once a month like we did on the last site.  I may even post on a weekly basis!

For those who haven't heard from us in a while, here is the latest scoop...

We live in Chicago in a neighborhood just west of the city called Logan Square.  We bought our first house in May '08 and have been making it our own ever since.  We just finished our basement remodel and it is now one of our favorite rooms in the house.

We don't have any kids...yet :)  We do have a dog named Colby who is our buddy and makes us laugh on a daily basis. 

Anyhoo enough of my rambling...if you are ever in the area...give us a shout!

Back from Puerto Rico

Posted pics from Puerto Rico. Click here for the full album.