Halloween Video

Halloween 2012 from deadbrave on Vimeo.

Halloween 2012

It's that time of year!  Halloween!  It was a beautiful crisp autumn evening in the 40's with blue skies and fall colors all around.  We hit Vermont Avenue once again this year and came away with tons of great goodies.  It's awesome to be able to do Halloween the old fashioned way; in a neighborhood.  We got to trick or treat with our good friends Isabella, Alexander, Branden, Gabe and Juliana.  Z wanted to be Snow White this year so we got our princess on.  Expect a video shortly.

The Video Speaks For Itself

It's a little long but for Z fans, it's what you've been waiting for.



Zahra's One Girl Show from deadbrave on Vimeo.

This Happened in October!

This was another fun event in October.  Marissa and I planned a surprise party for Shannon's 29th birthday.  It was an amazing hit!  Shan was so surprised.  It was tough concealing it from her for so long.  I made sure to have Shan pretty clueless about the whole thing by downplaying her birthday (we did have a nice time on her birthday by going out to Sunny Point) and being the dumb guy when it came to day to day life (I know what you're thinking, doesn't he do that all the time?).  I think Shannon was ready to give me a good kick in the rear until we made that one fateful trip to Zach and Marissa's house.



Shannon's Surprise! from deadbrave on Vimeo.

Our Little Learner

Z zhas always shown a knack for wanting to read.  She loves to read for you (pretend style of course) and be read to.  Now she wants to learn how to do it for real.

Recently we've been working with her on learning her letters and sounds.  She is taking to it like a pro. Of course she has a long way to go but we are really happy with her progress right now.  See for yourself!

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Memories

Just sat down with the family and went through some of the old blog posts.  Wow!  I can't believe so much has happened in so little time.  I know people like to say it all goes by so fast, but I never feel that way.  It feels like so many of the things we saw from 2009 happened yesterday.  They also feel like they happened a long time ago.

As for the present, we are all holed up in our little shoebox of a home.  It's starting to get really cold outside and it looks like Fall is really going to start to get going.  The leaves are at their peak and about half of them are on the ground with their brothers close to joining them.  We now have to sit and wait at least 45 days until our construction loan is approved and Shan is going nuts waiting for that.  We may have a house in June 2013 at this point if all goes well, which isn't bad considering our lease is up then and I'll have time off with the school year concluding to actually move things.

Here is the latest round of photos from our recent trip to Grammy Lanie's house in Georgia.