Happy Halloween!

Another month has come and gone. I'm sorry that I haven't posted, but daily life doesn't seem interesting enough to write about. We did have a few visitors here, which was very nice. My parents flew into town for a weekend and Karen's parents followed a couple weeks later. They DROVE from Virginia, a 12 hour trip. We really enjoyed having both sets of parents here, hopefully they will come back again soon.

We also celebrated Karen's birthday in October. I ended up having to work all day on her birthday, but did bring home an ice cream cake from DQ. Yummy. We also went out for a nice lunch on Sunday at a nice Italian restaurant in town.

This past week we drove to the Chicago suburbs for Karen to present at a conference. Afterwards, we spent the day hitting Ikea, REI, and some other stores that aren't here in Bloomington. While at Ikea, we picked up our Christmas tree for this year. Since we didn't want to unpack too much stuff, we're going compact and simple this year. I never thought we'd have a "tree" that fit in a 1" thick box!