So if the quote goes, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy", then Tröegs Nugget Nectar was clearly the beer being referenced. It's seasonal, so get yours now!

Thanks to Tim, our fantastic host for the Super Bowl party. It was great seeing everyone and enjoying some good food.

Additionally, thanks to Serena and Charlie for the baby stuff! We really appreciate it! I wish they made grown-up sized bumbo-chairs. They look really comfortable!

After not being able to get a clear picture the first time, we went in to try and get the heart looked at. After a bit of persuasion the baby moved into a decent enough position for the tech to do her thing. He/She is coming along nicely and right in line with our due date. We've got a disc of images that we can go through from the ultrasound so that will be a lot of fun! Simply can't wait to meet our new addition!

Watched a PBS special on the Donner party... quite amazing if you equate it to today's standards.  They literally had to go like two miles but could not make it. I imagine it would be a bit insulting if they were to come back now and see a nice highway that goes over the pass that takes but a few minutes by car.

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I have long since been looking for a way to keep nested block-level elements' backgrounds from traveling under floated content. Lets set the stage a little for clarity. I have a heading, an inline div, and a div I want to float to the right that has some highlighted content in it. If my inline div has a background applied to it, it will continue to run under the floated content to the right.

Introducing the "overflow:hidden;" declaration. I do not know much about the overflow property and have come to the conclusion that I need to know more. I consider myself pretty astute when it comes to CSS, but this fix, simple as it may be, eluded me for a long time. I used to just not code these circumstances, or worse, introduce a table to get things to fall correctly. Yuck.

Here's the fix:

The baby has all ten fingers and all ten toes! The amazement continues!

I had a throwback Mountain Dew over the summer that was absolutely fantastic and I found myself yearning for another chance to purchase the real sugar soda with the flavor that takes me back so many years ago. It's amazing how different it tastes, and how much better I like it. During a recent trip to Target I stumbled upon the beverage section, and there... at my feet... were cases of throwback Mountain Dew and Pepsi!

I simply had to purchase one. Mountain Dew is by far my soda of choice. It's basically my morning coffee and I typically have it or another soda every morning. Hey, it has orange juice in it! Don't believe me? Check it out!

It's the little things that get me excited!