Deer Meat Anyone?

I learned many interesting facts about Cincinnati, Ohio today in a rather unfortunate way. First, I learned that if you have an accident with a deer, it's yours and you can keep it for meat. Second, you cannot shoot deer in the city limits (you can only bow hunt them or kill them with cars) and therefore Hamilton County, Ohio has a massive over population problem this fall...

I experienced this first hand today when I was hit by a kamakazi deer in our neighborhood, right down the street from Dave's school. Babmi crossed three lanes of traffic before chosing the Solara and hit me right at the driver's side front wheel and then proceeded to role up the hood/windshield and over the top of my NEW car.

I wasn't hurt thankfully but it was pretty scary and now it's going to be a headache dealing with the police and insurance. Apparently I was about 50 feet from the Green Township line and technically on the City of Cincinnati territory and therefore the City of Cincinnati police have to file the report. They were too busy to come out and so I was instructed to just call them later and file a report by phone (thanks guys).

So if anyone reads this and wants some free deer meat, stop by North Bend Road, just down from LaSalle. Look for this:

Ron and Katie M.'s birthdays

Hey everybody, we had a lot of fun at my nephew Ron's 2nd birthday party! We were also celebrating my sister's 32 birthday, but she knew she was second fiddle to her cute son. Ron got a ton of Thomas the Train stuff (including a noisy flash light that makes train sounds... Katie's husband Sean loved that!). My Aunt Jo brought a cupcake cake that was shaped in a train. Very cute! Ron has become quite the little talker and loves to repeat what we say ("No, Bedda!" for "No, Bella!"). We brought Bella and Lola over dressed in their Halloween costumes (Bella as a spider and Lola as a bat). We hope everyone is doing well. I can't believe it's almost November.

For Jenna

We have a very special friend named Jenna who lives down the street from my parents. She L-O-V-E-S Bella and Lola and dogsat for us while we went out for breakfast one day. Jenna wanted to see some more pictures of the girls...these are for her! Bella and Lola were so tired after their last trip to Peoria, thanks to Jenna's walks, that they snuggled together. The other pics are of us at the Bark in the Park Cincinnati Reds Game which was a fund raiser for the SPCA.

Bella, the naughty child

Bella is the first puggle that we adopted in April 2007. She is a little mischievous... ok a lot mischievous! Countless shoes, socks, kleenexes, pairs of eye glasses, and watches have been lost to this mighty beast. If we can find something at home, we check to see if she scurried under the bed with it to chew it in secret. She likes treats, shredding things, treats, chasing squirrels, treats, short walks (not long walks) and did I mention, treats?

Look at me, I am blogging!!!

Hello all,

Yes it is true, I am finally starting my own blog so that friends and family outside of Cincinnati can have a little glimpse at what's new with us. So much has changed in the past year! We were married almost one year ago, we adopted a new "fur baby" (Lola), and have slowly but surely remodeled our house. Hopefully the next year will have just as many exciting changes and I hope that this blog will help me to keep in touch with everyone a little bit better. Maybe, if Dave is lucky, I'll let him post a few things too.

Love,
Katie