The Teskes: December 2006

Married!

So, Allysa and I finally tied the knot! We had a very cute little impromptu ceremony here at our apartment on Tuesday night. It was just us, our roommates Tara and Otis, and Allysa's friend Alisun who was in town for the night and happens to be ordained. Otis was our photographer, Tara was the ring bearer/flower girl/cake baker, and Alisun was our officiate. We threw together some decorations last minute and ended up having a really nice little ceremony. We had bought some rings the day before, which we will take pictures of and share at some point. For now, though, here are some pictures of the ceremony for you to enjoy...

All sorts of good news!

I finally got my masters thesis paper appproved after a few weeks of hell with a very crabby reader from the university who hated my paper.

Then yesterday we found out that I'm already dialated 1 and a half cm (that will make sense to mom and Allyssa) and completely thinned out so Livy's going to be coming sooner than we thought. We went out today and bought a pack n play and a camcorder. We ended up with a Sony Handycam-nothing too fancy but just right for taping lots of poopy diapers and gurgles.

I'm posting some pics of the pack n play and some pics from a baby shower I had at school. See what fun stuff Nathan and Allyssa have to look forward to? My advice is to take a couple with you who has a baby when you go to register. They can make it seem less overwhelming and tell you the stuff you really need as opposed to the gimmicky crap. We took our friends with us and it was a lot less stressful!

Merry Christmas every one!!

The Family Car

Allysa and I have been wanting a new car (specifically one with an automatic transmission) for some time. Mostly this was so that we can both drive (Allysa has manualtrannyphobia). And then of course a tiny little sports car isn't the most practical thing with a baby on the way. And, finally, my brakes went out and it was going to cost $2000 to fix- seemed like a good time to finally make that transition.

So we did- we traded in my old car for a 2007 Honda Fit. It's a really cute little car, a new model that's part Civic, part SUV, and part... some sort of four-door car. It's a lot like the Toyota Matrix, if you've ever seen one of those.

It feels extremely roomy on the inside, though the car is deceptively small. The seats in back fold flat, which is cool if we ever need a lot of cargo space. And it's very safe- airbags everywhere, special car seat hookups and all that good stuff.

My personal favorite feature, though, is the aux. input on the stereo, so we can plug our iPod directly in. Every car stereo should have one!

Okay, here are some pictures. I wish I had some way to create a sense of scale, but hopefully you will see it in person one day.