This Fall….

Hi Everyone.  We haven’t have too many interesting things happen this fall, but here are some of the things that we have done that we have some pictures of.

EAST/WEST EYE CONFERENCE

I (Paul) attended the East/West Eye Conference this October in Cleveland, OH.  It was a pretty fun time.  I went up to Cleveland on Thursday night, and stayed in Downtown Cleveland and was ready to attend the conference bright and early Friday morning.  I attended a few of the lectures and also was a “guinea pig” during one workshop to help Optometrists practice new skills/procedures that have been added over the last little bit.  I also attended a little            hors d’ouevre mingle with the Dr’s that I work with and met and talked with the current and president-elect for the AOA (American Optometric Association).  Then I came back to Columbus late Friday evening, so I could study for a test the next week.

(this is a picture of Cleveland at dawn)

Halloween…

This Halloween was pretty fun.  We started the fun with a party that a couple of my classmates had.  Then we carved pumpkins.  It was fun, but more work than planned because we tried some of the more tricky plans that you can get with the carving kits.  The best part, for Amanda at least, is she actually got to hand out candy.  Last year we missed it, because here in Columbus they don’t actually do trick or treating on Halloween, they do it usually a day or two before (they call it beggars' night).  This year she was prepared, and was really excited to see a lot of the neighborhood kids come trick or treating. Below are the pumpkins that we carved out.

BABY…

Here are some updated pictures that have to do with the baby.  Some of Amanda and some of the nursery (which is almost now completely ready to go).  The other half is not quite so finished looking.

Most recent picture of Amanda.

More Updates…

Here is our Garden at the beginning of the summer.

And here is our garden at the end of the summer.

Pregnancy Pics…

Here is the OSU FB game in Sept.  This was really cool to go to.  There were 105,000 in attendance and it was a crazy atmosphere with lost of yelling and jumping and NOISE!

(look at how small the field is at this height)

Trip to Kentucky, Kirtland and Cleveland.

This was a great trip where we went to see Amanda’s sister’s family and also went to the historic church sites in Kirtland, and then went to a fun museum in Cleveland.  Paul is standing next to a Buckeye Tree in the one picture.

   

We took a trip in September to a couple of places that are some cool hiking spots here in southern Ohio called Hawking Hills.  There are a lot of caves and waterfalls cut into the rock.

Updates…

This is Paul here, I have decided to try and work with the blog for a while, at least until Amanda has some more time.  I will probably not be on it too often, but I will hopefully give you some pics and other information that is going on in our lives.

Paul :)

Here are some pictures of what we have done over the last 6 months approximately…

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- Other than school, we had a few things this past spring that were fun and kept us busy.  We had some visiting squirrels that were not afraid of snow in order to get at the good food we left for them.  Also we had our first real garden this spring.  These flowers are ones that we planted last fall and we got to see them come up.

  - Also, Amanda go to see her brother-in-laws graduation from Dental school, in Philadelphia, and had a good time going to see them.

June 2010:  In June my parents, sister and brother-in law came to see the “white coat ceremony”.  This was a “graduation” of sorts from the first year of school, to now starting to work with patients.

  

In June we visited things is Columbus and the surrounding areas, including some Amish homes, a giant basket office building, downtown Columbus and Ohio State University.

Washington DC:

My sister and brother-in-law stayed around for a few more days in June and we went to Washington DC and saw a lot of cool things there and stayed with a cousin in VA.  We visited Arlington National Cemetery, the White House, Capitol Building, National Mall, Museums, and much much more.  Sorry to say there just wasn’t enough time to do everything nor energy to do everything.

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A Message from Amanda

This is Amanda's sister talking, she will be starting some real blogging in about 6 months. See you then.