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October proved to be busy for us. Samson is now a year old and finally starting to growing out of his puppy tendencies (although we still make him wear the ‘cone of shame’ if we go out for more than a few hours). Both of us were honored to be in our friends’ Gabe and Jenny’s wedding as they joined together in marriage. Kate turned 25 and we celebrated by having dinner with both our parents.

We had a wonderful holiday season. Kate was very excited about decorating the house for Christmas and it made the house feel very homey. We did a lot of traveling to see family and really enjoyed getting to spend time with everyone. For New Years we had friends over and played games all night and followed that up by watching Ohio State win the Rose Bowl on New Years day!

After all the Christmas decorations went away the house felt a little empty so we have been hard at work at decorating. Our family room now has end tables, lamps, curtains, and decor. While we were at it, we got bedroom furniture! So we have been busy fixing up our bedroom and in the process helping the guest room look like a guest room.

We’ve finally gotten around to posting the majority of our wedding pictures online for your viewing pleasure. You can go check them out at our picasa site here or go to our wedding page here where we were also able to post a preview version of our wedding album. Sorry for the delay. Hopefully by our next post we’ll have pictures up from our summer trip to California.

July went so fast! We were keeping busy with Kate starting her new job which has been a little slow to start but picking up speed. We also got some new living room furniture (real, big people matching furniture!).  After shopping around at every furniture store imaginable, we found just what we wanted as we were wandering through Costco… we love that place.

Kate got her wisdom teeth removed during July, which hindered her enjoying all the wonderful July 4th foods, but she recovered quickly with no complications.

We were able to enjoy a lot of summer festivities such as: the Dayton Air Show that Tim went to with his Dad and brother, the Jazz and Ribs Festival  that we went to with Jenny and Gabe, and we started playing in a weekly sand volleyball league with our friends Mark and Michelle.

August  has already been an eventful month as we enjoyed our first Dublin Irish Festival this past weekend and Kate assisted in throwing a bridal shower for Jenny.  After celebrating another friend’s wedding this weekend, we will be heading out to spend our one year anniversary in beautiful San Francisco.  We’ll spend the rest of that week enjoying some relaxing time with family at Discovery Bay and Yosemite National Park.  The rest of August should fly by with a few more birthday celebrations, a bachelor party to throw, Tim taking high school football officiating classes, and just enjoying what’s left of the long summer nights.  We’re very much looking forward to the beginning of football season while being back in ol’ Columbus town and getting to spend time with visiting friends.

Two exciting pieces of news for the Anderson household.  First up, we have a new family member!  Samson the 8 month old Yellow Lab/Golden Retriever has joined us just under a week ago.  He is very well behaved and both Tim and Kate are glad that he is fully housebroken.  There is definitely still some puppy in him that we are working on but it is a very good learning experience for both of us.  Here are a few shots from his first day at home.

Also exciting news is that after much tedious searching in a very rough economy, Kate has received a job offer for a position that promises some very exciting career opportunities and flexibility.  More info on that at later once things are a little more solidified, but God has been good to us and continues to bless us as we grow.

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