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Renee's mother was visiting for thanksgiving and we somehow convinced her to wake up early and help Renee prep the turkey!



Olive needed no convincing to get up early and "help" out in the kitchen.



Thanks to Renee and Ingrid the Thanksgiving spread was a full one.



Renee scoops her first helping of stuffing (it wouldn't be her last!)



Ingrid chews on some tasty bird.



Paul's shirt does the talking.



Brian is all too focused on his gravy.



After Thanksgiving we had a small friend of Olive come to stay with us. Ben turned out to be an even more avid cuddler than our little Olive did!

Brian's "snow" day

Brian got a call from school at 5:30am that he had a snow day. At first we were confused because we didn't know it had snowed. Then we took a look outside and SURE ENOUGH! Looks like the roads were VERY dangerous :D

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloweeeeen! Here are our 2010 costumes!

The Surgeon

The Lobster

The Perfect Housewife


Super scary faces, lot of Halloween fun!

Pumpkin Carving Party!

Denver in 26 Hours

Last Weekend Warner Brothers flew us out to Denver for a Muse concert because Brian designed a poster for the band. Due to Brian having to work we only had time for a crash course Denver tour!


Saturday, 6:28 am - We waited to board the train to the airport.


Saturday, 2:03 pm - We land in Denver!


Saturday, 4:08 pm - We walked down to the Denver Museum of Art and to our excitement entry was FREE because it was the first Saturday of the month!


Saturday, 4:42 pm - Brian is confused.


Saturday, 4:52 pm - a view of the famous gold-topped building of Denver....or something.

Saturday, 8:40 - We take our seats at the Pepsi center!



Saturday, 8:47 pm - Muse take the stage!


Saturday, 9:37 - This is Matt, the lead singer of Muse. You can get a good idea for the tickets that Warner Brothers hooked us up with!


Saturday, 11:35 pm - We head back to the hotel after the concert. Denver has some pretty cute shopping districts!


Sunday, 9:34 am - We happened upon this car. Interesting parking technique.


Sunday, 10:12 am - We found out that the car was actually a sculpture outside of the Denver Contemporary Art Museum. Inside the museum we found the second sculpture/cave. Most of the "scales" are made from butterfly wings!


Sunday, 10:17 am - We found this cool window in the art museum and Renee wanted a picture in front of it.


Sunday, 10:19 am - The picture turned out so cool that we decided to take some more...


Sunday, 10:22 am - Using the timer on our camera opened up a whole slew of possibilities!


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Sunday, 10:27 am


Sunday, 10:34 am - leave it to artists to make art in an art museum!



Sunday, 7:13 pm - Our plane landed

More Mini-Moon Photos!

Our first morning of our Mini-Moon we decide that we want a good breakfast, so where do we go...to Portland. Yes, we drove 20 min. back into Portland, about 6 blocks from our apt. to have breakfast. It was really good though. Here you see Brian with his french toast!

At the hotel there are large outdoor porches to lounge on, read, or relax. We found this one porch with this deep bench-thingy. Brian loves this image because he says it makes me look like a true miniature person, "the smallest thing ever" - Brian


Ruby's Soaking Bath

These photos were taken the last morning of our stay, around 8am, we decided to go in one last time before check out.

They also have showers in the soaking baths that Brian is trying to use...it was off that morning.


Here is our "Experimental Image" section. We found that my digital camera can select a color and have that be the only color in the image, making everything else black & white. We had fun.

This one of Brian is crazy, if you look at the background you will see that every persons face is in color too.


This seemed to be a popular spot for people who wanted to hear the concert but not pay for the concert.

They told us that we couldn't stand right at the fence and look in because we would be blocking a fire lane...this was our solution.



And this is our view of Ray LaMontagne

Dancing Newlyweds

This past summer we took dance lessons - this video is proof that they paid off!

And Then They Got Hitched!

On September 9th, 2010 we got hitched!



When most people imagine their wedding day, the first thing they think about is going through an airport-level security screening complete with metal detectors and x-rays of the rings. Ahhhh tradition.



The wedding was scheduled for 5:30 and since the courthouse officially closes at 5:00 we got to walk through the deserted building.



Judge Bloch was a jovial guy. This picture was right before we began - our friend instructed us to "look nervous" - 2 out of 3 of us understood those directions.....the shorter two.




After that it was all smooth sailing!



Judge Bloch told us this is known as "the money shot"



After the wedding we chatted with the judge in his chambers. We talked about art, rocks and our friend Lori persuaded him to put on his robe and pose with his gavel. We de-friended soon after.



Just married!



Seriously.



The guy on the bench kept clinking his glass.



Here's the entire wedding party! Left to right: Nancy (Maid of honor), Brian, Renee, Lori (Best woman), tree.



Take THAT threshold!

We love you all very much and are very excited for our ceremony back in Michigan in June!