Feeling Fall.

Well Fall is definitely back.  Earlier this week the days were quite warm, in the upper 80s!  Can you believe it?  Now we're back to normal 60ish Fall days.
I had a nice dinner with all the girls on our side of our building.  It was a lot of fun, I made Chicken Florentine and pasta, another girl brought wine, and another brought a delicious pound cake with blackberry filling and lemon butter cream icing.  Yum.  Last night Kyle and I did papa murphys for dinner.  It was delicious!  After dinner I baked cookies and we went to help his friend Alex, who is an RA at Kyle's school, decorate his hallway for Halloween.  He had some of his guys from his floor helping him, but decorations were limited and his guys are definitely not very creative :)
This weekend we're quite busy.  Today, the Sun kids have no school, so Kyle and I have spent our Friday with G and his friend Parker.  Olivia is out with a friend and will be home later.  They still have piano lessons though...they are both sad about it.  Tonight we're going with Kyle's parents and some friends to the comedy club, we've been once before with them and it was fun.  I don't know who is going to be there tonight for entertainment, I whoever it is is funny.  Saturday Kyle works, and Sunday is church.  We are supposed to hang out with the Schillings afterwards, but I'm not sure what we'll be doing.  Monday we are going to Monday Night Football with Kyle's friend Luke and his wife.  We are dressing up, Kyle is going to be a penguin and I am going to be a present.  I've been working on my costume this week, and I think it's going to be pretty cute for a less than $5 costume :)  I am worried about being cold though, it's been getting so cold at night and I am good at being cold.  Next weekend, Kyle has drill, so I'm glad we're going to have a fun weekend this weekend.  Time is going so fast, before we know it it will be time to move!  This week has gone fast!
I guess that's all for now.  Cheers!

Sunday Funday!

Well we sure had a great Sunday.  After church we went to lunch and picked up pumpkins.  We carved them while watching football.  I made seeds, there were tons of them, and also made a yummy dinner and dessert!  This mainly a photo post....so enjoy!

Cutting into our pumpkins!

They were tough

Making progress

Opening up the first pumpkin

Lots of goo

Lots of seeds

Tons actually

getting ready to bake them

Scraping our pumpkins insides...Yuck

Kyle's pumpkin all lit up

both of our pumpkins

They look so scary!

We also got matching shoes over the weekend

I baked apple pie

Kyle ate the apple pie :)

These were all his poses :)

He did enjoy it though

Happy Fall! Cheers until next time!

Lazy Saturday.

I cannot remember the last lazy Saturday we've had.  This is the first in a long time.  We have been in our pjs all morning.  I made breakfast, and we have just been relaxing.  Kyle's been watching all the college games this afternoon, and I've been kind of joining in.  But I've also been doing other things, so I don't feel truly lazy because I made breakfast, have been doing laundry, dishes, and vacuuming, but the fact that I've been in my pjs this long and haven't left my house makes me feel like it's a lazy day.  It's a bit cloudy out and we've been so busy, that it was just what we needed today.  My house is clean, dishes are done, candles are burning, and everything is just done.  I know it's not going to feel like this for long, so I'm enjoying it now.  I also had time to paint my nails. :)  I wish Kyle wasn't leaving for work soon, oh well I guess.  Life.  I hope all of your Saturdays have been as enjoyable!  Spend time with the people who you love!  Cheers until next time!

Boy do I have news for you.

Hello Blog world.  It feels like it's been forever since I've sat down to write anything.  To be honest I can't remember the last time I was on here, but I also am unable to remember what happened last Wednesday....Sooo that's that.  Well, I just checked an the last blog was October 8th.  That's not so long ago, but in my world, it seems like it.

We've been so busy lately, I cannot even explain it.  Since so much has happened since the 8th, I'll try to bring you up to speed on what's going on in our life, and what's going to happen to the best of my knowledge.  Well we are doing great, busier than ever, but things are good.  I am not prego, in case you were thinking that was my news, it's not.  Hopefully someday I will be blogging about that, but not right now.  My wonderful news is that Kyle and I are moving back to Illinois December 15, 2011!  We are so excited!  I cannot wait to be close to my family again!  I am also really excited to be closer to a lot of old friends!  Woo!

Well that's all I really know about that.

Anyways, we went to Illinois for a few days last week/weekend.  It was really nice to be there, but it was just about the most exhausting weekend of my life.  We arrived on Thursday around noon, and didn't stop going until we left on Monday evening.  We had 2 weddings and a funeral.  It was a very emotional weekend, and extremely busy, I can't emphasize it enough.  Thursday we drove up early, then visited with JoAnn's family after her passing away that morning, then I had a hair appointment that evening, plus we shopped for Dad and me.  Then Friday I went to the doctor, mom and I had to run some more errands for I don't even remember, then we had a wedding rehearsal to go to, plus help decorating.  Saturday we ran around like crazy people looking for doughnuts and then at 9 I started working on Amber, Haley, and Sherry's hair and make up for Faith's wedding.  I finished around 1:45 and we were supposed to be at the wedding at 2:30 for the 3 o'clock wedding.  Let's just say I took the fastest shower ever and got ready in record time!  I was there and ready to send people down the isle at the right times.....right after Faith's wedding at 3pm Saturday, we drove across town to Geana's for Shawna's 4om wedding.  It was a beautiful outdoor wedding, and after her wedding we went to Faith's reception, and then back for Shawna's reception, and finally back to Faith's.  Saturday night we also helped clear out the reception hall for Faith's and get the church back in order for Sunday.  Sunday we had church, went to get flowers for JoAnn's visitation/ funeral, and had her visitation Sunday night.  We also set up for the dinner that would be after the funeral on Monday.  Monday Kyle and I had to be in Morton at 8:30 to drop Sophie off with Pam while we were at the funeral, and we had to pick up the chicken for the dinner.  It was supposed to be ready at 9 but it wasn't until 9:15, then we had to drive back to Delavan.  I was worried we would be late, but got there about 10 minutes before hand.  It was a very tearful funeral service, but we know she's in a better place and we'll see her again.  Kyle and I left for home around 5 and it rained continually the whole way back to Missouri.  It seemed like the longest trip ever.  We were so thankful to be home.

Tuesday and today, I've been hanging out with our neighbors.  Last night I enjoyed a nice glass of wine with 3 of the girls that live on our side of the building, and tonight one of them rescued a lost cat...it's been a fun few days.  I'm still so wiped out from the weekend, plus I had to work late tonight.  I'd say it's time for this girl to call it a night.

Until next time, Cheers!

Fall Blooms.

Well the trees are changing and everywhere around us is so pretty.  The drive home from work is always my favorite.  The sun is shinning on all the beautiful trees on both side of the highway I drive home on.  It's so pretty!  I've been trying to figure out this camera, and I've been playing with it a lot more lately.  It isn't the typical pocket, point and shoot digital camera, it's a figure out all the meanings of all the buttons and all the other features kind of camera.  I've been reading blogs to figure it out, but I think I should ultimately take a class. But I like playing with it, and figuring things out.  So I have some pictures of things to post tonight :)

Even though it is Fall and I thought my summer flowers should be dying, they aren't I have had some NEW beautiful flowers bloom this week!

My pretty little flower and another beginning to bloom next to it!

Both flowers, there is another yellow one, but I didn't take a picture of it

I also bought a beautiful mum at the market last week.  It's so pretty and has so many flowers getting ready to bloom, I can't wait!

On Thursday, Kyle and I went to Loose Park, a park down town that is huge and wonderful, so I could try to take pictures of all the Fall happening there.  Kyle was my model :)  He wasn't a cooperative one though.  I need Sophie...She loves getting her picture taken, she's just not the best at making the right faces.

In the car, waiting to pick the kids up from tennis

He hit the tree with a walnut and was celebrating.  It's my favorite from the day.

The trees at the park, they were so pretty!

Kyle wanted to be photographer, but I didn't want my picture taken, so this is the best photo he got that day.  Maybe another time.
Today we ran errands, and ran into the Sun family at HomeGoods/ Marshalls.  They were shopping for a wedding they were going to, but not having luck finding the things they were looking for.  I on the other hand found some great things.  I bought new pie dishes and bread pans, and a really cute reusable owl shopping bag.  I made 2 loaves of homemade zuchinni bread and meatballs for out spaghetti tomorrow.  I'll put the sauce on before we leave for church and it'll be all ready for us when we get home.  That's my favorite kind of meal, the kind that's all done when you get home :)

Cheers until next time!

Welcome to October.

Well, it's October. The weather has be wonderful!  It feels like Fall.  The perfect mix of crisp, cool mornings and beautiful, sunny afternoons.  So Friday, Gregory had another half day of school, but not Olivia.  Kyle and I took him to noodles and co. for lunch and then we strolled around the Plaza.  It's an outdoor mall with great stores, but we only went to the ones G liked.  So we went to Game Stop (both he and Kyle enjoyed this stop a lot), Zoom, and Barnes and Noble.  Zoom is an amazing toy store!  We all loved it.  It was the first time Kyle and I had been there, but it won't be the last time!  From now on, all children's gift we have to buy will come from Zoom!  It has everything and more!  New toys, old toys, unique toys, decorations, accessories, clothes, jewelry, cups, puppets, learning toys. EVERYTHING you could possibly want for a kid.  It was awesome.  If you ever come to visit me, we need to go!  Our whole Friday was very relaxing.  We didn't do much of anything.  Kyle had drill this weekend, so he needed his rest.

Saturday Kyle left early for drill.  Damara and I took the little ones to the market in the morning.  We had a nice time, enjoying our chai tea lattes from latte land and browsing all the goods downtown.  We bought some beautiful mums and pumpkins.  Along with some nice produce, and it was perfect weather out.  In the afternoon I went to Macys for their huge baby sale, and it was VERY successful!  Damara needed winter clothes for Alana, and I was the shopper.  It was so much fun, and I found such adorable clothes for GREAT prices!  Alana is going to be nice and toasty warm this winter.  I also found a super cute outfit for Asher, it says nuts about mommy, and has robots all over it.  That night I was back and Damara's to babysit for them.  They went to see Dana Carvey.  Kyle came and helped out, and left after bedtime, because he had another early morning.

This morning I went to church.  Boy was it crowded.  I've been home getting ready for the week ahead, and tonight we have Kyle's Dad's birthday dinner.  Unfortunately, we're going to have two cars at his parents since he's already there, so we'll have to drive separate.  Well that's all...Cheers!