Playing catch up. . .

From Kelly:
Well not much is going on around here. And at the same time, it seems like a lot has happened!!

For Halloween Mike and I went to a few different parties. I was dressed as a bee and he went in a prisoner's costume, but for some reason kept telling people he was a "married man". Not sure what that was all about. . . :) We saw some pretty good costumes throughout the night-- lots of girls dressed as Sarah Palin, a John McCain, a girl dressed as Carrie that was actually really really scary, and our friend Justin wore skin tight shorts and went as Michael Phelps-- that actually may have been scarier than the Carrie costume!

Then, as you know, just one week ago the country elected BARACK OBAMA!!! YAY!!! We went to Carter's house to watch the election results with some friends and enjoyed watching the numbers roll in as we chowed down on some pizza and caught up. Of course we were very happy with the results and I was especially moved by Barack's speech. Regardless of your politics, this is such a huge leap from even just 50 years ago to see an African American family in the white house! What an historic moment. Which is why. . . we have decided to go to DC to join in the inauguration festivities!!

Since we have a bunch of friends that live out there anyway, we thought this would be great time to go visit and witness history in the making. Well actually, we probably won't get to see the actual history being made-- tickets are really hard to come by for the actual inauguration-- but we will sure have fun joining in the festivities! Mike is leaving on Tuesday, though, before the deed is done-- just to make it clear that he's still an independent ;) Plus, Tony's coming out from San Francisco to meet up with us so that's an added bonus!

Ok well Mike's done doing the dishes, so it's time to go beat him at Phase 10. Have a great rest of your week!!