Halloween and Early Christmas... not really but close!

Starting with Halloween, Katherine's school had their yearly Fall Carnival. Last year, we won the "Cutest Couple" award for our costumes. This year, we couldn't figure out what to dress up as since Katherine is 9 months pregnant so obviously nothing would fit her. This put us in a real predicament. The only thing people would suggest would be to paint a pumpkin on her belly, which is dumb, and immodest. So after much deliberation... actually not really, we kinda just forgot about it until the idea just popped in Katherine's head the night before the Carnival. Get ready... here it is... that I would dress up as HER, and she would dress up as ME. Get it?

We even wore name tags that said, "Mr. Hurst" (for Katherine) and "Mrs. Hurst" (for me). Everyone loved it. People laughed and laughed and children came running from all around just to see us. People heard about our costumes and were sending word for us to come by so they could see us. When they did the judging, people begged us to go up to the front of the room so we could be judged. As they called us up, they said the award was for "Mr. and Mrs. Hurst or is that Mrs. and Mr. Hurst?" We won the "Most Original" costume award. Some people even mistook me for a pregnant lady until they looked closer. My hair is one of Katherine's scarves wrapped around my head and tied up with one of her scrunchies. One of the parents said that Katherine's belly could be my "beer belly." We even put "stubble" on Katherine's face so she could look more Man'ish! We couldn't find shoes for her to wear to make her look more like me even though her feet have been pretty swollen for a while, they're still too small for my shoes. Here is a picture.... enjoy!


As for the early Christmas, don't worry we know that it really isn't Christmas until after Thanksgiving, but we got Norah a present. We finally found a stroller for Norah! After months of searching, and I mean months, we finally found one that we don't hate. We actually like it! No, LOVE IT! We kept looking and looking for one that was neutral yet didn't cost $300. A harder task that you would think. Anyway, we really did not want to end up like Jonny and Cassie and have a baby but no carseat. Eventually we decided to forget the neutral thing, this still was a problem because all the non-neutral strollers are dumb looking and ulgy. Well we found one and guess where we got it---KMart! Who'd a thunk?

In case it is hard to see the color the last picture is just to illustrate that. It is not "hot pink just regular pink" (to quote Katherine, whatever that means) and black.

Smelly Room...

Well for those that dont know, since the day we moved into our new (and awesome) apartment there was one FLAW... The back bedroom that will become Norah's room smelled like DOG PEE!.. It was not our dog because she has not been in that room and it was there from the first day we moved in. Well, we kept trying to figure out how to get rid of that smell. We tried covering the carpet in baking soda, letting that sit over night and vacume it up, we tried verything we could think of. Well, when nothing worked we decided to tell our apartment complex managers that they need to fix it. (Dont worry we told them of the problem when we first moved in and they told us to try and fix it first) Anyway they decided to hire some professionals to come and clean the smell.
Today they showed up to do an inspection to give the owners an estimate of the cost. The used a black light to find the pee spots, thinking it was only one big spot... it is not... THERE IS PEE EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!! about 10-15 different sopts in that room. Now we will just see what they are going to do about it.
We will keep you updated...

Child birthing classes!

Well today we went to a child birthing class at the hospital from 9-3. It was quite informative. Anyway they had all the males put on the "empathy vest" it simulates the weight of a 9 month pregnant woman. I understand now why every morning I put on Katherine's socks and tie her shoes. She just can't reach it and if she tries she would fall over. Anyway here is a picture. (sorry that it is crooked, I had to scan it.)

Baby clothes

For those of you without a Facebook account, I thought I'd post the pictures of the baby clothes we got because they are so cute and I'm getting excited and want to share with everyone. We got Norah a coming home outfit and a really soft warm thing (I don't know how to describe it) but you can bundle her all up in it. It has zippers on the sides so you can just lay her on top and zip her into it. I also put a picture of the blessing dress our former neighbor bought for us. The picture really doesn't do it justice.

Silly Dog!

My dog makes me laugh everyday. Here are some of the recent things she's done that make me smile.

I walked into my bedroom one morning and realized that there was more there on my bed besides the covers because this little nose was sticking out.















Candy likes to have her tummy rubbed so she always rolls on her back when we wake up in the morning as a signal that, "It is now time to scratch my tummy!"















This is my favorite--The way her toes are on my cell phone and the way she is looking at me, it's like she's saying, "What? I'm just trying to text my friends!"