trick-or-treat

halloween has come again! friday was a crazy day at school... as usual. but we had lots of fun and the students loved our costumes. that night my family celebrated my dad's birthday with our annual costume party.

{happy birthday papa}

we feasted on swamp monsters, fish egg swamp juice, and mummy dogs.

and of course, it's not halloween without pumpkin carving.

{happy halloween}

what a week

-out with the "old" patio.... in with the new
-practice wedding cake..... we decided to have a little fun with it.
-the real thing (my first and last)

-little wedding dj-ing...

-this was delivered friday morning...
-and now we have a yard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-plus, 3 major school projects for brandon that were all due this week. to say the least, we had several late nights and feel like we need a vacation.

-and last, but certainly not least, we found out that we will be welcoming a baby girl.

feels like fall

so i have not had anything to post about for quite a while. mostly because i've had absolutely no energy to do anything but lay on the couch. gratefully, my energy is slowly returning and i'm feeling like myself again... so hopefully there will be more things to post.

the other night, brandon and i borrowed my sister's kids and visited a little pumpkin patch at the end of our street. not only were we able to pick our own pumpkins out of the field, we were also able to play in a giant corn-box, get "lost" in a hay maze, and spend some quality time with a wallaby, a llama, some pygmy goats, sheep, and donkeys.it was fun to get out of the house and enjoy some fall festivities. our front porch now looks a bit more festive, although it's nothing compared to our neighbor's porch. i think we'll always be a step behind. ;)

first comes love...

then comes marriage...

then comes...

you can probably finish the rest yourself.

the big day is

in march!

--POST UPDATE!!!--

Due to the pinkish nature of the carriage color, some may assume that the baby may definitely be a girl. So in the effort to avoid confusion and just representation, the following must be added to this post.
-B-don

happy, happy birthday!

although brandon had to work on his birthday this year, :( we still had a pretty good day. saturday night we went to my dad's school and watched avatar in his "theater" room, ate pizza, popcorn, and JCW's shakes. then on sunday, i made my very first strawberry pie topped with some sweet sparkler candles.

happy birthday b-don!!!

june 24

~what a good day~

weeds

in the last few weeks our yard has really gotten out of hand. i'm talking 3 ft monster thistles and a variety of waist high weeds. we were looking a little white trash, to say the least.

we went from in-over-our-heads....

to light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel...

to a huge-sigh-of-relief.

i know, i know... we never should have let the weeds get out of control in the first place. we could have spent the day putting in a sprinkler system instead of plowing weeds and getting our yard to the point it was when we first moved in. moral of the story... don't let weeds overtake your life. it'd make a great church talk if anyone wants to borrow it. ;)

hopefully we've learned our lesson and can keep the weeds down until we put in sprinklers and grass.

thanks family for sacrificing a fun day of hiking for a hard day of work. b-don and i never could have done it by a our little 'ole selves.