Of Glasses, Halloween, and Tanks....

Well, I promised that I would get a picture of Ren's new glasses, so here it is.  We still never got around to taking a pic specifically for that purpose, but we did go get family pictures for the year taken Friday.  So instead of a snapshot, you get professional pictures!  How cool is that?

Halloween was fun this year, if not a little crazy.  We got together with our church life group plus some of my parents' life group, so there was quite a crowd.  All the kids went trick or treating together, which made our group about twice the regular size.  It was fun, but exhausting as always.

Group shot of our life group; Tyler and I are the only party poopers with no variety of costume on.

The only other news is that I decided to switch out the gravel in my fish tank for sand.  This was facilitated by the fact that we purchased an aquarium which will eventually house the gerbils that we promised to buy the kids as a consolation for having to share a room once the baby gets here.  So I took the opportunity while I had a spare aquarium to empty out the fish tank and swap my substrate.  I think I can officially say that once was enough for that experience, but I am pleased with the result.  I don't think the fish really care.

My more "natural looking" fish tank.  I can almost guarantee I'm still going to get ribbed about the fake rock cave by the peeps on the fish forum.  Oh, and the hose full of old gravel are only temporary.