Life is never boring ...

at least it certainly hasn't been this month. Here are some random happenings from the last several weeks:

1) Matthew has some interesting potential teaching opportunities for next year on the board right now. These aren't full time positions or anything, but the opportunity to teach several different classes at different venues ... this is all still in the works right now so prayers that things fall into place in the way that will be best for him and for us as a family would be appreciated.

2) Heather's masters project is due in two weeks, and her thesis a month after that so she has been diligently pressing away at it in order to have it done on time. Once we have pictures of the finished project we'll post them. Her thesis is a history, theology, and practice of the Advent Season and her project is 6 worship services to show how we can practically live out what is discussed in her thesis, beginning with Christ the King Sunday the week prior to Advent and running up through Christmas Eve. She has never spent so much time in her life on 6 worship services ... by the end, they will be awesome ;). She's also singing in a Mass written by one of her professors that will be performed in a few weeks. Until then, they are spending 8 hours a weekend in the recording studio trying to get it all on CD prior to the event. It's been fun, tiring, and a huge time commitment.

3) Henry, Henry, Henry ... well the first picture I love. Matt cut off his T-shirt sleeves which made for this lovely photo-op.

After developing a funny little owie in his front paw, we had to take Henry to the vet last week. Turns out he had picked up a fox tail somewhere (like a sliver) and it had dug into his little paw and gotten infected, poor baby. So this meant some time under the knife while they took it out, cleaned it, etc. Poor little guy had a bandage on his foot for two days and then they tried to get him into a cone after that ... quite unsuccessfully I might add. Henry's pretty strong-willed and that was definitely a nonstarter with him. He popped it off within minutes. Anyways, it's been a week and after various antibiotics and foot soaks he seems to be back to normal. Here's a pic right before the death of the cone. See how happy he looks?


4) Little baby is getting bigger! We're definitely beginning to feel more and more defined kicks and punches which has been really fun. He especially gets going when I sing ... he'll move a bit during rehearsals but if I'm singing he really gets moving, which is both very fun as well as very distracting.

Matthew and our good friend Jeff spent all day Saturday sanding and painting the changing table and armoire we got for a steal off of craigslist and they are looking fabulous.

Today he's planning to touch up some spots on the crib, and then the furniture will be done! We're looking forward to painting the walls this weekend and beginning to get things in order before we're both too busy to make the time. It's been a fun project! We'll post some pictures again when it's all finished.