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Entries from October 2006

Happy Halloween!

October 31st, 2006 · No Comments

I used to attend a yearly event at Utah State called “Poe in the Dark” where professors from the English and History departments would perform readings of Poe and other Halloween appropriate stories and poems. It was always a lot of fun. So, in the spirit of Halloween, here are a few fun Poe spoofs…
Horton [...]

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A Dove Commercial

October 28th, 2006 · No Comments

Christian showed me this movie on YouTube the other day. It’s called Dove - Evolution and it’s been pretty popular. Turns out things aren’t always quite what they seem when it comes to beauty… I’m sure that suprises all of us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U

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Buying Baby Things

October 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Consignment sale clothes
One of the things we have appreciated lately about this area of Virginia is the large number of consignment sales for childrens clothes and gear. As we prepare for baby Dance, Christian and I have attended quite a few of these… Mothers of Multiples sales (for our county and Northern Virginia) and [...]

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Communicating

October 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

So I’ve begun communication with our daughter-to-be. I told you about the Morse code trick, well she has been responding. Sometimes she will give Jen a quick jab, which in Morse code is an E. Sometimes she will give a long firm push which is a T. So I don’t know what she is trying [...]

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The National Book Fair

October 1st, 2006 · No Comments

Book Festival
The Library of Congress puts on a National Book Festival on The Mall once a year and being avid readers, we decided to go check it out. Wow. It turned out to be a lot of fun. The list of authors participating was impressive and it was neat to listen to them [...]

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