Sunday, October 28, 2012

Fall Festivities

So here we go! Finally some pictures of what we've been up to! Wednesday night with the youth we painted pumpkins. These are just a few pictures of our fun night with them!
 

 

This past week was my dad's Birthday so I picked him up on Monday, we went to lunch at this cute little deli and then went down to Fairhope Bay and walked on the pier and around the walking trail. It was great for my dad to get out and walk and it was such a beautiful day, I really enjoyed the time I got to spend with him.
 





The boys have had some fun in the yard fixing a sink hole and I did a little decorating of the yard and house with some old Halloween decorations I found in the attic.

I also went to a pumpkin patch this past week. Eric has been sick for the last week and he really didn't feel up to going, so lucky me I got to go alone….I guess not so lucky :( I hate it when he is sick!!! Poor thing but I've been working my nursing skills, tips and tricks, and he is doing much better now! We also hosted a Halloween party at the house for the family and had a great time! Here are some pics of the treats and the good time we had!

 


 
Such a good sport! You can't even tell he is sick in this pic. I love this man more and more everyday! No matter what he is always supporting me in every decision!


Baby Allie and I. Love this cutie! She makes me want to have my own babies right now. I can't wait till I graduate so Eric and I can begin to start our family!!! Woohoo…. 8 months and counting!

Getting our pumpkin carving on! My mom is missing in this picture cause she wanted to carve her's on the other side of the kitchen! bahaha

Eric and I were busy hosting that we didn't get to finish carving our pumpkin till everyone left! Here he is hard at work.

Some of the finish products!

Eric and I decided to do a Monsters Inc. themed Pumpkin. This was my side I carved.

This was Eric's side! Bahaha Ok we know its not our best work but we still have one pumpkin left to carve for Halloween so maybe the next one will look better…maybe.

The Ward had a Fall Festival/Trunk or treat on Friday night. I was a paper doll. Thank you Pinterest for the idea!

One of the YW with me! Bailey was a werwolf!

There were all sorts of food and games. My nephew Thomas was a cowboy, here he is doing the cake walk!

Trunk or treat

My SIL and neice and nephew. Allie was a cupcake!

Taking the kids around the trunk or treat!

Our ward even had a haunted house that the YM put together. It was in the back of 18 wheeler equipped with blacklights, strobelights, fog machines, zombies, and all sorts of scary things. So FUN!

Some of my family and YW at the trunk or treat! i felt like a little kid again! Oh yeah, and I promise I was not the only adult dressed up hahaha. Oh and Eric couldn't go cause he had to work :( BOOOOOO!

Saturday morning I was up early at the butt crack of dawn for the youth temple trip to the Birmingham, AL. temple. It's a 4hr drive so we met at 6 am to drive up, and it just so happened to be the coldest day we've had! I actually loved it! Made me feel like I was in Idaho for a day!

Here are the youth after the temple. We were missing a lot of youth who didn't come and a majority of the YM who did come for some reason are not in this picture!

Love working with the youth!!!! I have the best calling and the best group of kids! 

I went to Hobby Lobby and look what I found!!!!! Could have spent all day in there! Can't wait for Christmas! I know we still have Thanksgiving…..oh and BLACK FRIDAY….but Christmas is just around the corner!!!! Tis the Season!

Friday, October 19, 2012

MIA Lately

Sorry we've been MIA for so long! Definitely not like us! Life has been so stressful and busy between school, clinicals, homework, church, my calling in YW, family, and finding time for each other that I haven't made time to blog. Life is going on as normal for the most part and we are finally enjoying some cooler fall weather in our area. Last weekend Eric and I went down to Gulf Shores, a neighboring town, and attended the shrimp festival. It is on the beach and they have tons of seafood for sale, arts and crafts to buy and it's a lot of fun. We didn't bring our bathing suits and we later wished we had because it got so hot with the huge crowd. After we left the festival we went and ate an early dinner at Lulu's. If you follow this blog then you know by now that it is one of my favorite restaurants down by the gulf and Eric had never eaten there. We both loved it, and it was nice to just chill in the shade, listen  to good music, and watch some football. Eric also took me to go see Pitch Perfect last weekend cause I had been bugging him about it, and we LOVED it!!! This weekend we will be spending a lot of time at home for me to study for my psych final. I had my last day of my psych clinicals on Thursday and I am really going to miss all the patients I was able to work with. Mental illness is so fascinating to me, but I don't think I am meant to work in that kind of setting. Here is a picture of me with the other nurses in my clinical group! We had a blast and hope we can all stay together in our next rotation, however unlikely that will be!

Sorry for the horrible picture but it's a moile pic!

Hopefully next week after my final and I finish writing my Pharm paper I'll have some more time to update this thing!