Maybe one kid is enough... :-)

The weekend was going great. Kelly and Lisa watched Lauren on Friday night and we went to see the new Zorro movie (not so great, but it was the only thing up). On Saturday we were having a good time watching Olivia and Hanna when it happened... Lauren asked Why? and I gave her an answer not thinking too much about it. Five minutes later I heard her ask Chris Why? and by the end of the day I think she had asked Why? 357 times! Today has been a little better with only around 10 Why's. As if that was not enough Lauren came into the bathroom and told me she needed privacy and proceeded to shut the pocket door and go to the bathroom. It has been a weekend of firsts!

We are going to Trick or Treat tonight. Chris picked out a cool costume for Lauren, but it is kind fun putting it on and taking it off which we have to do each time we get in the car. She is going as a cow girl riding a horse so we figured we should go this evening when we had more time. Hopefully we can make it to all of the stops with the costume on!!

Chicago

Chris and I had a great time in Chicago! We stayed in a very nice hotel that had recently been remodeled (we had a plasma TV in our room!) and we had a very nice view of the city. Saturday night we went to a nice Mexican restaurant and I had the best burrito ever!! Sunday we hit the Magnificent Mile. Chris found a really nice outfit at Ann Taylor and I had fun drooling on new Macs. We even found Lauren a cool shirt at Niketown.

Live from the Apple Store

Chris and I are having a great time in Chicago (more to come), but we couldn't resist putting a post up from the Apple Store. Wow...they have a bunch of stuff here I want!

Hurricanes!

This has been one of the worst years for hurricanes with 3 of top 10 strongest storms occurring this fall. Fortunately all three weakened before hitting land, but they still caused a great deal of destruction including Katrina that destroyed a large part of the gulf coast.

This hurricane season has now had two storms named after members of the Trankina family!! First there was Hurricane Rita which at one point was a monster Category 5 storm. Rita weekend just before hitting near Houston, but caused considerable damage. Grandma gave Mom a hard time about the it, but now there is a storm named after her! Hurricane Wilma is now off the coast of Mexico. At one point Wilma was the strongest storm on record. It has weekend, but is still expected to cross the Gulf Of Mexico again and hit Florida.

Long time no blog

We have been running the past several days with no time to blog. Last weekend we took Lauren to the Covered Bridge Festival and had a great time. Mansfield is a zoo, but we managed to escape with a little money left only to fight traffic for a couple of hours to get home. On Sunday we topped off the weekend with a cook out at the Hill's. We had a great evening and kept Lauren out too late. We ended up giving her a bath there before we came home. She fell asleep just before we got home and then we woke her up getting her inside...getting her back to sleep a second time was much harder!

As if things were not busy enough, I have spent the past few nights working with our Australian subsidiary planning for the trip. It looks like I will be heading down in December now, but it could get pushed back.

Mom has been with Darc and Tom the past week and comes home tomorrow!!

Busy weekend

Wow! What a busy weekend! It is finally fall and we took advantage of the great weather. Lauren and I headed out early to get Grandpa Darr's lawn mower from John Deere. After picking it up we headed to the mall to get a birthday gift for Chris. We even were able to ride the horsees a couple of times before heading to Best Buy! We topped that off with meeting the Marbles at Shades Park and taking Lauren on her first rugged trail hike! She did a great job and probably walked 2 miles.

After Church we headed to Curtis Orchard and had a great time. Lauren's favorite part was riding the live merry-go-round twice. We made it home just in time to celebrate Chris and Bill's birthdays.

Whew...we can't wait for Monday so that we can go to work to rest up a little for next weekend!

New Pictures of Rachel

After much delay we now how pictures of Rachel on the web site with her parents! I was starting to wonder if there were any pictures showing the happy parents. Trankina Web Site

Rachel's First Picture

We would like to thank everyone for the calls of encouragement and support. Rachel’s first photo has been posted on the hospital web site. Go to the link below and select the September (9/30) baby page. The password for Rachel is “Divan”. We will try to send out more pictures as we find time.

http://www.growingfamily.com/webnursery/babypage.asp?UrlID=0X2Z8H2C1A

Tom & Darcee

Lauren changes day care!

Chris and I have been really happy with Lauren's day care the past 2 years. She has been going to a very supportive home day care and we never worried about her during the day, but she is now getting older and we felt that a more structured setting would be good. Lauren will also get to spend the day with Mac which makes it even better!

First Post

After making fun of my friends for having blogs the past few years I am going to be a sheep and join the herd blogging. For the most part this blog will be used to keep our family up to date.

So why not start this blog off with a bang!! Congratulations Tom and Darcee!! Rachel Elizabeth Divan was born September 30th in Maryland.