Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone!!!

Spooktacular

So last weekend Dan and I went to our ward Halloween party. Here are our costumes....


Peter Pan & Tinkerbell!

Here was the decision making conversation for our costumes:
Me: "Dan, I want to be Tinkerbell for Halloween. That means you should be Peter Pan, because it would be so cute! Ok, honey?"
Dan: "Ok honey, whatever you want."

Such a great husband! :) Anyway, i think our costumes turned out pretty good and luckily on Dan's behalf, no green tights were involved.

After our ward Halloween party, we rode the haunted Heber Creeper in Provo Canyon with our friends, Kevin & Rachel. It's pretty fun. You get to ride this old train up the canyon, see weird things out the windows as they tell ghost stories and then the train suddenly stops and all the lights turn out (that was the creepiest part). Then all of these crazies in costumes get on the train and scare you! It was a fun Halloween adventure. Luckily we had a buy one get one free deal though, because I don't think it was worth the full price.

Here we are on the train...



And here are Kevin and Rachel. They were obviously very scared!



And that's the story of our spooktacular weekend!

Birthday weekend!

So i have been meaning to post these all week, things just got busy!

Yep! Dan got me DDR and we LOVE it! We now have 2 pads though, so we don't have to switch off. It's great! I have the best husband!

As for the rest of my birthday weekend, we went to Gateway on Saturday (my favorite place to shop). Dan said he'd buy me clothes, but I couldn't find anything I wanted! We did however, get that one game where you put the velcro mitts on your hands and throw the ball to each other. We played it in our living room that night :) After Gateway we went to Cheesecake Factory with Joel and Becky. I've never been there before, it was pretty great! Besides the hour long wait... I do recommend the lemon raspberry cheesecake though, so good! On Sunday we had family over for a dessert night. It was fun to see everyone! On Monday, my actual birthday, I went to school and work-- blah! But after work Dan gave me DDR and then we went to dinner at Chilis (my favorite!). After dinner, Dan took me to the Quilted Bear- one of my favorite craft stores! And i bought some cute things for our house :) What a great weekend!

Pictures!

I demand that Michele post the pictures of her new birthday present :)

Happy Birthday Michele!!!

You're 22, woo-hoo!!!! Hope you have the best birthday yet, honey!!!

Love ya!
-Dan

2 fabulous months!

It was our 2 month anniversary on Thursday. I really can't believe we have been married 2 months-- it's gone by so fast! I came home from school and Dan had gotten me a bouquet of flowers (they were so pretty and he said he wanted them to match the table cloth- he did great!)

I decided to make Dan his favorite chocolate pie. I even called his mom for the recipe. I can guarantee it wasn't as good as hers, but i think it turned out fine! I could have done better on the crust... i'll be honest, i threw out the 1st crust i made and this was the 2nd one! Also, i was trying to hurry and surprise Dan before he got home from work, so i was pretty much running around the kitchen and it was a mess! But the pie tasted really good! I am definitely going to have to attempt another pie for thanksgiving though, until i perfect the crust. Anyway, it was a fun night!

popcorn....

So the other night i was driving home from the store and i was totally craving popcorn! Dan and i were planning on watching a movie that night anyway, so i figured it would be perfect :) we got this new popcorn popper for our wedding, so i was excited to try it out.

i got home, pulled out the popcorn popper and the popcorn that came with it. i've never used popcorn like this, because it came with oil and apparently was "just like the movie theater". so i poured it all in the popcorn popper-- that is, kernels and oil. i then plugged it in anticipating the delicious buttery popcorn, but no... suddenly smoke started rushing out of the popper! i sorta freaked and was like "i don't think it's supposed to do that!" so then Dan bravely unplugged it!

well apparently you are not supposed to put the oil in with the kernels... who knew?! i guess i should have read the directions beforehand. so anyway, we had a smoke filled kitchen, a mess (oil everywhere!), and no popcorn :( i was in complete distress.

luckily i looked in our cupboard and found microwave popcorn! i was so happy! as i was unwrapping the package i saw the expiration date... april 2008. gross! expired popcorn! so i threw it out!

needless to say, we ended up not having any popcorn that night. and now i have a broken popcorn popper. not really sure what to do with it. any suggestions???

The completed sign!

So i just completed this sign for our house and i'm really excited about it, so i wanted to put a pic up of it! I really wanted one of these "est." signs for our wedding, but we didn't get one, so i decided to make it myself! I think it turned out pretty cute :) Dan even helped me, he sanded the board and did a great job!
I don't know if anyone out there is interested in making a sign like this, but the lady that helped me with the vinyl lettering was great! I just ordered it through her online and she was so helpful! Plus i think her prices are pretty reasonable. I'm even planning on making more signs in the future!
If you are interested, her website is: www.defineyourspacevinyl.blogspot.com
She was super helpful and gave me exactly what i wanted! She also has some really cute ideas on her website, so check it out!

temple and ice cream night!

So last night Dan and I went to the temple and did sealings. It was really fun, because it was my first time back to the temple since we got married. And I was soooo excited we didn't even have to wait! For those of you who have done baptisms in the Provo Temple, you know you wait at least an hour! But it was great, we walked right in! Once we were done, I was in the dressing room changing and i had this great idea, that we should go get ice cream! I walked out of the dressing room and as we were leaving the temple (which just happened to be at the perfect time- there was a gorgeous sunset!) i turned to Dan and said "i have a good idea!"
He responded "go get ice cream?"
I was like "YES!!! How did you know???"
We both must have been inspired :) He then asked if i wanted to try out Subzero, which is so funny, because that is the exact same place i was thinking of! Yep, made for each other :)
So we went to subzero and it was good! If you haven't been there, you should try it. See, they stir up the ice cream right in front of you and then they freeze it with liquid nitrogen, it's kind of exciting. It's sort of like cold stone, where you pick your ice cream flavor and your mix in. I got marshmallow creme ice cream and brownies, it was delicious! As an added perk, wednesday means 25 cent waffle bowls! I love waffle bowls! We also used our starving student card, meaning we got a buy 1 get 1 free deal- i love our starving student card!
So anyway, we decided it's gonna be a new tradition-- the temple and ice cream once a month. i'm so excited!

Halloween Decorations

Ok so, Tuesday night Dan had a volleyball game and I didn't really want to go (due to an earlier incident of being smacked in the face), so I decided that I would go get my Halloween decorations while he was at his game! Such a good idea! I figured I would see what I could find at some nearby stores. This is how my shopping went:

First I went to Shopko, but there wasn't much there and most of it was expensive or not cute.

I then decided to go to the dollar store because it was right around the corner. Everything at the dollar store was ugly or smelled weird (which i should have expected of the dollar store anyway).

I then went to ANOTHER dollar store (not sure why, it just happened to be on the way) and still there was just junk.

So my last stop was Smith's the grocery store, because I had noticed a halloween isle there while grocery shopping. Anyway, at Smith's a sketchy man was in the Halloween isle and he was yelling at someone on his cell phone, so I pretty much avoided the isle.

Needless to say, my shopping trip was completely pointless and i was kind of upset. What a waste of time! I then picked up Dan from his game and I think he was surprised to find out that i had spent $0!

But don't worry, this story does have a happy ending... last night, Dan and I decided to go to a REAL craft store to see if we would have better luck. Since Robert's Craft is fairly close to our house and I had a coupon there, we decided it was the best place. So we went and they had tons of isles of Halloween decorations! And they were CUTE!!! I was soooooo excited! I kept on grabbing things from every isle (it was Halloween decoration shopping heaven!)... and the best part is that all of the decorations were %50 off! So we got lots of cute decorations and put them up in our house! Yay Halloween! So for those of you wondering where to get Halloween Decorations, I highly suggest Robert's Craft!

And thank you to my fabulous husband for funding the trip :)