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Okay, before you get all excited about our first blog posting this year, I must provide a caveat: the author of this post is the not-so-funny Jacob. So, before you decide whether or not you want to continue reading this, let me provide a few facts. First, Allison is exactly 17% more funny than I. Second, our life has consisted merely of Allison going to work all day making plasma TVs while Jacob watches Wife Swap and Malcolm in the Middle, reads the works of Cormac McCarthy, and plays tap tap revenge, bubble spinner, and wallstreetsurvivor. Third, Allison is much better at dramatizing our not-so-dramatic life. SO, this means that I cannot guarantee entertainment in my blog postings. But nonetheless, due to repeated requests for an update on our family, I will do my best to make this long-awaited post worthwhile!

My favorite adventure from the past month occurred in our preparations for christmas. When our next door neighbor moved out, we were blessed with these two, very nice couches.

After two days of struggling to transform our sheets into slipcovers for the couches, we decided that we'd be better off just giving these couches away and buying ourselves a nice, new couch. So I posted an ad on craigslist announcing that they were free to a good home. The problem was that we couldn't get anyone to take them. We had four couples come, look at them, and tell us they were too ugly. We came up with several scenarios to get rid of them including white trash sleigh rides (tying them to the back of our car and dragging people around town on them), dropping them off at a random house with a note saying "we heard you were in need this season," or carrying them atop our poor little car to the DI. Several days later Allison was able to get a couple to take them by literally carrying them down to their car before they had a chance to look at them and tell us no. I was hoping to make money by selling white trash sleigh ride tickets, but oh well. Later, we were blessed with a very beautiful and comfortable new sofa.

The most amazing part of the last few weeks, though, occurred this week when twice (yes, more than once) I caught Allison in the kitchen making me little surprise treats. The first time was to make me crepes for breakfast, and the second time she made the most delicious cheesecake brownies. The only thing more beautiful than a perfect crepe is a beautiful crepe on the spatula of a beautiful lady!