Merry Christmas!

We made it through one semester! We are now well into Christmas break and loving it. We missed our family and friends on Christmas Day, but we managed to have a wonderful time nonetheless. We were invited to Christmas dinner with a family of 4 kids, so we had fun checking out their new toys. Thanks to our parents and the wonderful US postal service, we got plenty of gifts of our own to play with, too. We've been watching our new DVDs and playing games everyday. We didn't have fresh snow on Christmas Day, but it has been snowing all day today. We should get about 8 inches or so before tomorrow. We took the dogs out in it, but our camera needed recharging, so we didn't get any good pictures, yet. We'll go again tomorrow.

Just to really see who's checking this blog, we thought we'd make a little announcement and see if we get any responses. Our most treasured Christmas present came early. We found out the week before Thanksgiving that we are expecting a baby in July. I've decided to start a new blog entitled Baby Kunes to post all things baby-related. You'll see a link to it under Our Links to the right. If you want to read all about how the pregnancy is going, check that blog. I'm not promising lots of pictures until I start actually looking pregnant and not just chubby, which is how I look now!

We love you all and thank you for your prayers!

One More Week and Counting!

Well, there has been more snow. Lots and lots of snow. I've lost count of how many inches there are on the ground right now--over a foot at least. It's truly beautiful here. Can you believe the size of the icicles on our building? They're like North Pole icicles or something! I took some pictures on my walk to work the other day, so check out the link called Winter 2007 on the bar to the right.

Rob is on his last week of work for the semester. Classes ended last week, and this week he'll be taking exams and finishing papers. We can't wait until all of the work is done because then we'll finally decorate for Christmas! I think this is the latest we've ever waited to put up a Christmas tree. We tried to play it off like we were just celebrating Advent and waiting until Christmas to celebrate Christmas, but really we have been just too busy to decorate. Rob will be done Friday, and I have all next week off, so the fun will really begin then. We can't wait to spend the week relaxing together. Maybe we'll finally get some good pictures of the dogs actually playing in the snow!

Happy Advent and Merry Christmas!

Our First Wisconsin Snow

Yesterday was the Kunes' family first Wisconsin snowstorm. I think the hype leading up to the snowstorm was almost more exciting than the actual storm itself. The weather channels had been predicting snow of various amounts and consistencies for about a week. One would think that with all the cold weather and snow they get here the people of Wisconsin would be pretty laid back about a few inches of snow or even grumpy about the start of another winter, but they seemed pretty excited about it. I have to say, I was a bit disappointed. We got a few inches of snow, but I guess it was a bit too warm to get the predicted 1/2 inch of ice on top of the snow. I was looking forward to seeing that! I guess I'll have many more chances in the months to come.

Hazel was dying to get out in the snow. She whined at the back door until we let her go out on the patio to watch to snow come down. She really loves the snow. We'll take more pictures of her playing in the snow another time. In fact, by the end of winter, you'll probably get sick of all our snow pictures!


Pe-Snow Patio

Post-Snow Patio (See--just a few inches)