October happenings

October has been fun so far and I am looking forward to Halloween! Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to ...

Lauren, Elisse and I went to Thriller with the Drill Team. If you haven't ever been, you need to go! It is fun and makes me miss dancing.Then it was Elisse's 24th birthday! All the girls (minus Kaitlyn) at the birthday dinner at my moms
On her actual birthday, she didn't have any plans, so I invited her along to lunch with my mother-in-law Joanne and me at the Lion House. The company was great and the chocolate cake was delicious!
We had a good hard laugh because of Elisse.... she found a fly in her salad dead on a hard boiled egg (GROSS) so on the comment card they leave on the table, she put "there was a bug in my salad" and then took the bug and a piece of egg and stuck it on the comment card so whoever read it would know that she wasn't lying. Joanne and I were rolling on the floor we were laughing so hard :)

After lunch in front of the temple

Joanne works at the church office building so she took us inside to check it out. I have never been on the top floor, but it was so neat up there! You could see everything. I took this picture of the temple.. I thought it was a fun view that you don't see every day. They were also having a health fair at her work so Elisse and I got to go around and get a bunch of free "healthy" stuff like hand sanitizer and a go green "save the earth" snoopy doll that Wrigley just loves.

It was a fun little outing... thanks Joanne for the tour!

Yesterday our Friends Jen and Mike invited us over for family home evening. They were nice enough to get Jed and I a pumpkin and we did some carving. I haven't carved a pumpkin in years and I forgot how much fun it can be! After a lot of frustration, my pumpkin turned out looking like a Frenchman.

The finished product. It was really cold and windy and for some reason my camera flash made it look like the middle of the day, but this was late at night and the candles wouldn't stay lit. I think they still turned out great though

Thanks Mike and Jen for the fun evening!!

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New House Pictures (FINALLY!)

Be prepared! There are a lot of pictures!!!

Jed and I were so excited to buy our first house. This process was very stressful especially since our house was being built, but we finally got everything done, signed, and funded! We moved in two weeks ago and we are loving being on our own again. My Parents were so nice to let us live in their basement rent free.. without them we never would have been able to do this. I have spent my nights trying to get my decorations and paintings up, but we are still working on that. We can't afford blinds at the moment, so I got some really pretty drapes that my darling mother in law is sewing for me... I will post pictures of those when they are up... So here are all the pictures!View when you first walk in the front door
My beautiful kitchen. Jed did ALL the cabinets in our house (the kitchen isn't quite done yet.. he still needs to put lighting in the upper cabinets and do the crown molding and a couple pieces of glass are missing)Dining room... I want to get a new table eventually so that we can have people over for dinner. My drapes are always shut because I don't want my neighbors always looking in my windowsIslandOur family room view #1 -- Jed also made that entertainment center for me... He made a huge coffee table to match as well, but it won't fit with the ottoman in there as well. He is so talented and I am love that I have a Husband that can make me pretty things!Family room View #2.. our couch takes up the whole room and I am still trying to decide what we are going to do with that huge two story wall... right now it is just blankOne of my favorite projects. Jed put these shelves up for me going up the stairs and I am going to put holiday decorations on themMaster BedroomOne of my favorite features, my big soaker tubSecond bathroom upstairs view #1second bathroom view #2view out my bedroom window

view out the front bedroom

I haven't gotten the front bedrooms together yet, but we have 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and a 2 car garage. We plan on staying here for a while, and we are very excited to start a family here. We are right down the street from the new temple, and we can see angel "baroni" (my cute nephew Boston calls him angel Baroni... he loved going through the open house and seeing the temple) from our or bathroom window. I am excited to be so close to the temple and hopefully we can take advantage of our close location!

Hopefully you feel like you had a tour of the new house now. We had so many people help us move in and we are so grateful for all of them! So many people helped us move boxes and unpack and hang up clothes. Thank you so much to you guys! You know who you are!