Many Thanks to Chim Cherie!!

Allen and I are sitting in the glow of firelight.

 For the first time.

 I have always dreamed of owning a fireplace and when we bought this house two years ago, there it was! But, upon inspection before purchase, the inspector said he couldn't get the fireplace to work. He warned us to call in the experts to check it out before we tried to light it.

We put it off.

Was it a wood or natural gas fireplace?

Didn't know who to call.

Until my friend, Peggy, recommended Chim Cherie, Inc.

 

 

It was simple.

It's not a wood burner as the house seller had said.

With a lighter on the ceramic stones, I turn the key set into the floor

and, Voila! the fire comes on.

 

Thanks, Chim Cherie, for the lessons on lighting our fire!!!

It was worth the $70 for the inspection.

Turkey Trot 2018

They brought home the pie!

 

The boys did the Turkey Trot again.

 Hunter got 9th, Blake got 6th in the 15-19 age category.

 Dave got 2nd and won the pie this year in the 50-59 category.

Go Team Underwood!!!

 

 

Let's Decorate!

Landon stayed overnight for a super-playdate with us before

he goes off to Florida with his parents for a week.

We started decorating for a French Christmas theme

that will happen this year.

 

Landon, age 8, wearing his Ireland shirt for
the school photo.

Landon lettered the cards...he has been to Paris so he knows a little about France.

 

First-Time Voters

She voted.

 And so did he.

This is Paulina, Hunter's girlfriend.

After finishing her clinicals this morning, she turned up at

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, her designated polling station.

Incidentally, St. Mark's is where Dave and Amy married.

Election day registration is OK in Iowa.

 

After attending school and returning from a Cedar Rapids game,

Hunter went to the fire station to vote.

The best thing about Iowa is that they have lots of polling stations.

No one stands in line for long.