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:
