Happy Birthday Carl! Because we know you love your pop culture, here's a list of famous people who share your birthday: Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block fame, Kim Delaney, Gary Shandling, Chuck Mangione, Howie Mandel, Diane Ladd, and Vin Scully. Here's hoping you enjoy your birthday week!

Here's a photo that was taken in our travels on Black Friday. One of our stops was in downtown Westfield, and the number of the parking spot caught Matt's eye. So we (or our shadows) posed, and Matt snapped the photo.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Ours was pretty quiet -- watched the parade, surveyed the ads for good deals, had a great dinner at Heidi's parents' house (thanks Bill and Kathy)! Here's a picture of us from Thursday.

Jimmie Johnson won the Nextel Cup. Definitely not a popular win in our house.

If I remember correctly, as we were walking out of the Daytona 500 this year and being showered by the confetti from Jimmie Johnson's victory celebration, Matt predicted that Jimmie would win the Cup this year. Unfortunately, he was right.

But look at the bright side -- only 90 more days until next year's Daytona 500.

So this is the photo that we used for our save the date card. A little background on it.

It was taken at a Red Sox game against the Orioles at Camden Yards this past April. The game was scheduled to start at 4, but it had poured all day. It finally stopped raining by game time, but everything was delayed until about 6. It was cold and damp.

The thing you can't tell about the photo is that I was just getting over a stomach virus. I was completely miserable. But thank God I stopped to smile for this photo.

So when we picked this photo out, I realized that the people in the background were really distracting. One of the women was wearing an orange poncho that she had bought at the gift shop. So, leave it to Matt to solve my problem. Literally five minutes with the photo and Capture NX, he had the result you see above. Pretty awesome.

I know I'm going to get some crap from my relatives (and others) about me wearing Red Sox stuff. But here's the thing -- I never really liked the Yankees. Did it hurt that Matt and I started dating during their run for the World Series in 2004? Probably not.

So welcome to our blog.

Just so your expectations aren't too high ....

We make no promise that we will post every day.

We make no promise that our blogs will be profound statements about the world today.

But we do promise that they will give you an insight into what's going on in our world. Most of the time Matt will provide the photos, and I'll provide the words. Maybe we'll switch it up from time to time.

We hope that you check in often to see what's going on (or not going on for that matter.)