MI pays a visit

Fall is in full swing here in the midwest. Thankfully, our current home has no fence, so I might be able to avoid raking leaves. At our old house, I would fill almost forty 40 gallon bags. One year, someone 'stole' about 1/3 of our filled bags. I remember we spent a long time debating possible explanations for the mysterious theft. Our favorite theory was that some neighbor kids' mom had told them they had to have 15 bags of leaves by the curb before they could quit raking and play video games.

We're not the only parents that waited a while for a kid to arrive. The outfit below was passed down from Julia. Indeed, we're glad to have Clara with us!
This weekend, the U of Michigan brought its football team to town. Of greater note is that Jill's cousins came also to watch the football game and to see the baby. After showing them the sites of downtown Urbana, I went with them to the game, sitting in the MI fan section. The section emptied steadily as Illinois pounded MI in the 2nd half. The cousins took it well, though you can see that Brent's still looking a little serious in the picture below.

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After church today, we went to Za's for lunch in campustown. Maybe it's just the clientele there, but all the young people seem to wear new clothes, and most were fashionably dressed. Did the grunge era completely die off without anyone telling me? Is there anything else I missed lately?