Friday, October 30, 2009

Party Time!

So my fabulously creative husband decided we needed to host a Halloween party with his "out-of-the-house" siblings and so we did it last night. We had such a great time! It was kind of a "blast from the past theme" so we did the eating a doughnut on a string game, bobbing for apples, and a cupcake walk. Seriously, though, it was so much fun! Thank goodness that his siblings and their dates/spouses are good sports because it would have never been so much fun with a different crowd. (Warning...lots of pictures!)

The theme for costumes was "opposites attract". We set up a little mini photo shoot to capture everyone at their best, hence we have:

An outlet and a plug

Black and White

Fire and Ice

Redneck and City Girl

The whole crazy crew (one of many attempts to get a super sweet group shot...enlarge for full effect)

We made homemade pumpkin pizzas for dinner and each couple decorated their own jack-o-lantern pizza and Dustin made us homemade rootbeer to go with dinner.


...and while the pizzas were baking, it was time for GAMES!





To end the night reminiscing about Halloweens past, we had what else besides good 'ol dirt cups? Yes, that's right. It was superb.

All I can say is it's a good thing we all love each other. Seriously...can you see what I mean?! We're all crazy! Life is so good!

Monday, October 26, 2009

24 Weeks and Counting...

Here's a picture update for all of those who have asked lately. It is from last week at about 24 weeks. She's growing for sure, or at least I am! The only rule is you can't make fun of how bad I am at taking pictures!

Monday, October 5, 2009

Randomness

I've been meaning to update for awhile, but don't really have any huge updates to write about, so I'll just post some pictures of the random things we've been up to.

Fall...I love it and it doesn't come soon enough in AZ, so I got some decorations for the bar in our kitchen and we've had fun with them. I made pumpkin bread, too which is my absolute favorite "Fall-ish" treat. I got these wooden boxes with glass sides that I want to fill with different things for each Holiday and I love them! It makes doing a little decorating to spice up life way easy.

Canning...I've been trying to can some random things lately and I found a recipe for strawberry lemonade concentrate that was awesome! All went well with the strawberry lemonade and I should've stopped there, because this is what happened when I went to seal the grape jelly I made. Grandma's steam canner is no more...So sorry, Grandma!

Chicken noodle soup...Dustin will die, but neither of us felt very good on Sunday and I was craving homemade chicken noodle soup. I woke up to the yummiest soup ever and homemade bread bowls. He is amazing, but please, don't tell his secrets! :)

A baby gut...It's up and coming. I finally had to go shopping for clothes on Friday with my Mom because things just aren't fitting the way they used to. I almost made it to 6 months, though, which isn't bad if you ask me. Here's a picture at 21 weeks, even though it's not great because it was the day I was sick and not really in the mood for pictures.

Sunsets...this one is from my Grandpa's pond last night after a last minute trip to visit after conference on Sunday. Isn't it amazing?


(Dustin's addition) Meagan and I love nativities and this is our newest addition to our collection. It just came in the mail today, so we naturally had to check it out. Since we had it up, we thought we'd take a picture and share. Hope you enjoy it. We're excited!