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Sometimes after a rough day or a patch of crappy news, it is the little things in life that can pick you back up and give your mood a much needed boost. Today we got such a boost: our nursery bedding arrived. Erin has been itching for the delivery dude to show up with our as-yet-unnamed baby’s bedding, which finally arrived direct from the UK this afternoon. Yup, the bedding is British, which I am sure comes to no surprise to any of you. Amazingly, it wasn’t any more expensive than the stuff you find at Babies R Us or Buy Buy Baby. Check out our mod-tastic cotton awesomeness:

Okay, so I am sure that hardly anybody reads this blog anymore since we hardly update, but with our baby on the way, we’ll have plenty to write about very soon. April 11 is going to be here before we know it! The nursery is partially done, but we’ve still got painting & curtains to knock out. Once those tasks are completed, and I do a little repair work to our rocking chair, we’ll be ready!

It is really starting to set in that fatherhood is just weeks away for me. Seeing the sonogram images was amazing, and feeling the kicks and rolls in Erin’s belly just blows my mind, but the thing that really got me was our hospital visit this week. We took a tour of the hospital where our baby girl will be born. The nurse that gave the tour was very informative, making me even more comfortable with the decision we made about selecting them. Still, seeing one of the rooms where our kiddo may be born… Wow. Just.. WOW!

The final week of October was one to put in the record books. We had my folks in town, followed by members of our Dangerbird HQ in LA, a couple days of driving Jeff (Dangerbird / Pablove) around town for various press interviews, and then finally our friends in the band Bad Veins who ended up stranded while their van was being repaired. Lots and lots of house guests, but it was all fun. Last Wednesday was the Pablove Foundation benefit concert at Emos, so we got to hang with our crew, along with Jeff’s wife Jo Ann. It was great seeing everybody, as we don’t make it out to LA all that often.

Here is a great picture of our Dangerbird crew at Emos….

This also marked the first Halloween where we handed out candy. Friday afternoon we picked through the leftover pumpkins at our grocery store (next year we’re going to a farmers market or nursery). Erin drew the face on our pumpkin and I was assigned carving / stabbing duties. Our pumpkin, which we named Uncle Rotten (he did smell kinda bad), turned out pretty good for our first attempt. The trick-or-treater turnout was mediocre, but it was still fun. Here are a few pictures of our pumpkin madness.

Halloween 2009

To all of our friends in Austin… I know that this falls on a “school night,” but if you can find a way to make it out, the Pablove Foundation benefit concert will be taking place at Emo’s on Wednesday, October 28. Dangerbird artist Sea Wolf will be joined by Ben Kweller, Port O’Brien and Sara Lov, with all proceeds going towards childhood cancer research. Members of our Dangerbird family from Los Angeles will be flying in, so I hope that some of you can join us for this important event.

As if 2009 hasn’t been full of gigantic changes already, we’ve got another that we can announce. We’re having a baby! We’ve known for a while now, as Erin is now thirteen weeks pregnant, but we wanted to get through the first trimester before going totally public with the news. We’ve already decided which room in the house is going to be the nursery, although right now it is simply a holding area for stuff that still needs to be unpacked. Erin has been experiencing all of your normal preggo symptoms, ranging from upset stomach and headaches to sleepiness, but all in all she has been doing awesome. We’ll find out the gender of our little “Tater Tot” next month, and we can’t wait!

In other news, projects here at the house are growing in number by the day. Flooring and the kitchen counters/sink will be put on hold for the time being, as we’re having the back stretch of our fence replaced very soon. It is rickety and simply not Boris-friendly, so that particular project has been bumped to the top of our list. Unpacking has been slow, but we’ve made some progress. The kitchen is nearly done, and our office is pretty close as well.

This month we have a TON going on. Three bands on Dangerbird will be coming to Austin over the next few weeks, Pablove Across America will roll through from the 26th to the 28th, we’ll have a Pablove Foundation benefit concert at Emo’s on the 28th, and I’m still contemplating running the Livestrong Challenge 5K. Busy times!

Although it is now several weeks old, this is the only image we’ll have of our kiddo until mid next month. Enjoy!

The past week was, well, intense to say the least. We finally moved from the ol’ house to our new one, which was quite an ordeal. Although we tried as hard as we could to get everything packed and ready for move day, even with a moving company to help with the big stuff, it still took us from 6am to nearly midnight to get the move completed. That is all behind us now, as we’re happily in our new home, and it rules. We’ve still got a ton of unpacking to do, but we’re just knocking that out one box at a time.

We had to pop by the old house yesterday to pick up some silverware that we somehow left behind. The new owner had already moved in, and I have to admit that it felt bizarre seeing our house with somebody else’s furniture and belongings in it. It no longer felt like our home.

Now that we’ve settled in here, this is really starting to feel like home. We already love the new neighborhood, which is much more runner friendly. We’re a short jog from a great park, which has a mile long trail through a wooded area. I tried it out yesterday morning, and it was awesome. We’re definitely going to stay here for a long time.

Here are a few photos around moving day. Obviously we’ve unpacked quite a bit more than these pictures show, but you can see the chaos that was moving week by clicking the image below.

Moving – September 2009

It is truly hard to believe that we’re already in the thick of September. It seems just like yesterday when we were running around Austin during South by Southwest, attending Dangerbird related events, shuttling Jeff and Lacey around town, housing the Chatterton guys, and now somehow we’re already in college football season. Speaking of, I’m mighty proud of our Frogs. TCU dominated their opening game yesterday afternoon against Virginia, so hopefully this is a sign of things to come. I’ll be purchasing a TCU flag soon for our new home… hopefully whenever I get a chance to drive up to Fort Worth for a game next month.

Speaking of the new house, we’re in full-on packing mode right now. We have eight days left in our current place, which is a wild thing to think about. We will be moving in to our new digs a week from Tuesday, and to say we’re excited would be an understatement. We’ve already got a long list of improvements we want to make to the new place, but we’ll simply have to tackle those one at a time. At least the place is definitely move-in ready, so there is nothing we have to do before moving day.

For our Texas friends, if you can, plan on coming down to Austin in late October. You’ve read my entries about Jeff and the Pablove Foundation here on the blog plenty of times. Well, Jeff is embarking on Pablove Across America, during which he is riding his bike from Florida to California, covering 3,000 miles in 30 days. We will be having a special event when he rolls through Austin, so keep us penciled in for the final week of October. I’ll let you know the specifics when they’re announced. In the meantime, read up on Jeff and the incredible Pablove Across America at the brand new pablove.org.

Well, it has been pretty chaotic around the Chadams house lately. For those of you that don’t know, we put our current house on the market a few weeks ago. We had a contract quite quickly, which meant that we needed to find a new place to live in a very short period of time. We wanted to stay in south Austin, so we focused our hunt just a bit further west than our current home. After plenty of disappointing viewings, we finally found what could very well be the perfect place for us. We submitted an offer, which was accepted, so now we’re just down to the nitty gritty for a few weeks until closing. If everything works out, fingers crossed, this is our new place. Click the photo below to check out a gallery of pics. Obviously the furniture is the current owners’, so just keep that in mind.

New House

Our next His ‘N’ Hers DJ night is coming up this Saturday. In fact, we’re locked in for the first Saturday of every month at the Red Shed Tavern now. We will start spinning at 9pm. He have a second HNH on the 15th of August too. Bring on the Britpop!