happy early birthday, husband!

Look what we got Dan for his birthday/Christmas (50 inch plasma)!

I finally gave in... he's been talking about getting one for the past year! It's nice though, because this year I won't have to worry about what to get him for his birthday and christmas (they're only 15 days apart). I told him he should wait til December to use it, but that didn't happen. It was exciting to get him something that he really wanted, he definitely deserves it!

And thank you Noelle, for dating Jared, who works at Best Buy, who helped us find a great deal and a great tv :)

October

I always love the month of October. Halloween is definitely one of my favorite holidays and there are so many fun things to do! Here are some pics of a few of the things we did....

Went to Gardner Village with Dan's fam. I love that place! They decorate really cute for Halloween.

Carved pumpkins.

Here are our friends, Laura & Brandon.

Dan concentrating.

Our Pumpkin.

Their pumpkin.

Got lost in the corn maze!

A word of advice, don't go to a corn maze on the last day of the season, because all of the corn is trampled and you will have a hard time deciphering if a path was intended to be there or not. At least we had that problem. We also went in broad daylight, which made it very easy to find our way through- at least the weather was nice!

A few other things we did: celebrated my birthday, ate lots of halloween candy, passed out some of that candy to trick or treaters, watched halloween movies, and at my school we had a halloween parade and the kids were crazy! We are now looking forward to Thanksgiving and then Christmas! I just love the holidays!

family dinner

A few weeks ago we had a family dinner. It was 2 days before my birthday, so Dan schemed with my sister Noelle and surprised me with a cake. Here are a few photos from it. These are more for my mom than anyone. Hope you like them, Mom! We missed you & dad, as always :)

Here is some of the fam- amazingly almost everyone fit in the kitchen!

Cute Ryan being Batman, Jannifer, and my green wall.
Grandma & Noelle. Grandma is always so stylish! She even has highlights, you just can't see them all that well in this pic.
I tried to get Chase to smile... didn't really work. But he looks very cute in his pj's!

Classic Noelle face. Pretty sure they stole my camera for this shot.

Ethan, the cute ghost cake made by Noelle & Jared, and me. Ethan is ready to blow out the candles for me!

Wall Art

So I've been wanting to put some type of art above our couch in our living room. I didn't really want to go out and spend a fortune, so this is what I did...

I got the idea from Better Homes and Gardens. I love their website. And here is a closer look...

Ok mine don't look quite as good as theirs, but it still saved me money and I had fun doing it. I've also been wanting to put something above our bed. But Dan never wanted to because he didn't want it falling on his head. So this is what I came up with...

Vinyl lettering! It says "Always kiss me goodnight". Now i just need a beautiful headboard and the look would be complete :) And Dan doesn't have to worry about this falling on his head.

My Birthday Present!

Ever since we moved into our condo I've been telling Dan that I want to paint a green accent wall in our living room. I was kind of getting frustrated, because it seemed like it was never going to happen. Well... yesterday I went to lunch with a good friend of mine who is moving to Virginia. After lunch we went shopping. When I came home, guess what was waiting for me???

My birthday present! Dan and his friend, Scot, worked on it the whole time I was gone. I think it looks a little more lime green in this pic than it really is, but we like it! Now I just need to figure out exactly what I want to put above the couch on the wall.

Here's the before shot, if you're wondering...
Quite a drastic change, right?

In other news, we just found out that there is a pumpkin patch only 1 block from our condo! I'm so excited to go there. Uh... i love springville!