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.