We’ll just throw all of the Holidays into one blog

Halloween

For Halloween Scott and I went over to our friends James and Michelle’s house and celebrated with friends. James made some amazing chicken gumbo, I baked chocolate chip oatmeal raisin cookies, and Laurel brought over these delicious pumpkin cupcakes.

After eating we drank some warm apple cider and passed out candy to their neighbors. The winner of the cutest costume goes out to this little baby:

HOW CUTE! He was a little lobster and if you didn’t notice his parents had lobster bibs on… lol

Once it was past all of the trick or treater’s bed time we decided to pile into the living and watch scary movies which was then followed by visiting a haunted bridge.

All piled high into Laurel’s explorer… if you couldn’t tell, this is Scott sitting in the back of the explorer

Everyone minus James and Scott… Greg, Natalie, ME, Michelle, Laurel (baby), Sean

THANKSGIVING

Scott and I would have love to have spent Thanksgiving in Ohio but for financial reasons (pricey tickets) we opted to stay home for Thanksgiving. Instead of Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving day we hosted a pre-Thanksgiving potluck with all of our friends. I regretfully didn’t take pictures other than my turkey. We do not have a dinning room set yet so everyone gathered around our breakfast table and a fold out table and we ate dinner in lawn chairs. It definitely was a sight to see. I will be sure to remember to take pictures next time.

Our thanksgiving dinner consisted of, Turkey, Ham, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cornbread casserole, sweet potato casserole, 4 cheese macaroni, rolls, cookies, pumpkin pie, cheesecake filled red velvet cupcakes, and cheesecake brownies….agh, Scott and I ate like kings and queens for the next 5 days and by Thanksgiving day hit, we were all turkey-out.

22lb Turkey I made

cheesecake filled red velvet cupcakes

and our little buffet set-up before the food

Christmas!!!!

Agh, My MOST favorite holiday of them all. I really don’t have much to write here. I have wrapped the majority of our presents and only have a few more to wrap (which I haven’t bought yet). I made my first wreath this year and the most exciting part about this years Christmas is that I finally have a home of my own to decorate, and I DID! -to a certain extent. We plan to get a bigger Christmas tree and more decorations once the holiday season is over and everything is on sale.

My Christmas wreath, I think it turned out really nice for someone who had no clue as to what they were doing.

Greenery before I added in some berries and sparkle

TA-DAH! I personally think it looks 20X better in person. I even made the bows

Mantle…. took some greenery and decorated that as well… There’s also a ginger Scott, and Ginger Sabrina on the mantle ;-)

Our Christmas tree. I got this free from a roommate several years ago. Most of our ornaments are pink which were all pre-Scott ornaments. Hopefully these will soon be weeded out with our tradition-the ornaments we buy each other every year.

Our House:

In between these holidays we have found sometime to make some minor updates to our home.

We decided to paint our front door black and replace the hardware. This our door before its makeover.

This is our front door after a good sand job, fresh coat of pain and new hardware. Looks like a BRAND new door! I love it!

We also painted our light fixture. A new light this size would’ve at least cost $40-50. We bought a can of spray paint and did this for about 6 bucks!

We found this mirror in our attic. It was so weathered that the dust in the creases had become a part of the mirror.

This was another $6 can of spray paint job.

<-This is our mantle and back living room before…

I stained the mantle and this is our back living room after. ->

Our Guest bedroom is complete, with the exception of some pictures in the picture frames need to be changed:

On an ending note, Scott and I did a Pre Cana this past Sunday. We were both pretty apprehensive about the whole thing but in the end we both found the class to be very helpful.

Oh yeah, Here’s a little Porkchop for all of you Porkchop lovers:

Exactly 7 more months!

Can you believe that there’s only 7 more months left! Crazy. I feel like we have been engaged forever now….not that that is a bad thing. It is just nice to no longer be counting down from 500 something days. :-) Scott and I have been super busy these past couple of months. We’ve gone to 2 weddings in Cincinnati, OH.

The first wedding we attended was Kyle and Kristen’s Wedding September 19, 2009

I took this picture from Kristen’s facebook. Thought it was cute. They got married during Oktoberfest in Cinci.

Scott ant I at the reception

Got caught

And then 2 weeks following Kyle and Kristen’s wedding we were back in Cincinnati to attend and be apart of Justin and Carly;s wedding October 3, 2009. Scott and I were able to walk down the aisle together as a bridesmaid and groomsmen.

I stole this picture from Carly’s Facebook

I love this picture

Me, Carly and her maid of honor-sister Megan

Other than the weddings I have been working on my own. I have made the majority of our invitations. I just need to get the printed stuff printed out. AND we got our amazing save the dates out.

My 17 year old sister drew them for us. We absolutely love them and think they came out amazing!

Oh and we got our wedding website going. OUR WEDDING WEBSITE

This month Scott’s friend from Ohio Dougie is supposed to be staying with us for 5 days. My mother is also coming up to visit from Houston and we are planning on hosting a pre thanksgiving meal with our friends.

As far as our house goes I surprised Scott while he was out of town and painted his office. He still needs furniture and we will have pictures up as soon as its completed.

On an ending note here’s a little PORKCHOP! :-)

We have had a couple of weeks of cold weather… it’s no back to averaging about 75 degrees here but while it was cold Porkchop loved snuggling up in his blanket. We may have to get him one of these:

How SILLY is that! LOL!

He’s such a big baby (Porkchop)

we got this costume on sale after halloween. Lol

Guess whose back!

Hello everyone! I’m sorry that I have neglected to write anything for several months… I guess it didn’t really dawn on me how long it had been since I last written until my mother called me. Apparently she thought there was something wrong with her computer since nothing new was coming up.

Well, lots has happened within the past 3 months. Scott and I bought a house (I’m sure everyone is well aware of that). We got the house I last blogged about. We have been trying to customize it to out liking and it has been more work than I think either of us anticipated. Apparently one of us thought it would be a grand idea to rip wall paper down from all the rooms that had it….easier said than done. I think we all know who that person was…haha it was me. This is our first home so it’ll take time. As of right now we do have one room completed and that’s our half bathroom.

This is without the wallpaper and with it being re-mudded

The ugly mirror that was once in the bathroom

This is one of many tiling spacers stuck to my leg.

Laying tile down….ourselves

This bathroom was a definite learning process for both Scott and I. We were able to get most of the basics done but thankfully Scott’s parents came into town and helped us finish our project.

Ta-dah!…..

Next project it our bedroom. Most of the major stuff is complete… I just need to put together some seat cushions and decorate. I will hopefully have it completed by tomorrow. Which may mean another blog. :-) We also got our backyard pretty much furnished:

And just to briefly catch everyone up on what’s going on. Scott and I just recently had our housewarming party/luau, which his parents flew down for. There they are, the beautiful Mrs. Connie Young and Sir Billington…oh, and that’s Greg

The most recent news was my trip to Ohio to do wedding planning. My maid of honor Andrea flew from Portland, OR…to which everyone in Ohio calls Ore-gone (hehe). With the help of Scott’s mom, we were able to accomplish a lot; wedding cake, bridesmaid dresses, flowers, finalized on my dress, centerpiece arrangements…and a bunch of other ideas. yay! only 304 more days left….better get started on my cranes again.

This is kind of a mumble-jumble blog…..I guess there’s just too much time that has gone by since I last blogged so I just had to highlight on everything. In conclusion-some pics from the housewarming party

Scott jumping through a tube and Mr. Porkchop looking concerned in the distance:

a high-fiving porkchop:

Me, Natalie, & Michelle