Date Night

Chris and I had a date night on Friday and we had so much fun. Chris always gets off at noon on Friday's so I took a half day so we could get started on our weekend early! :) We went to see a movie called Fireproof, it was very good! Then after the movie we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. Neither of us had ever eaten there and we decided it was about time to give it a try. It was pretty good, although we think we liked this other place up here called SaltGrass a little bit better. But we will definitely go back I am sure. The only thing that was horrible is when we were waiting to have our number be lit up so we could be seated at our table, we were sitting next to a family who was letting their little girl go through the bucket of peanuts and suck on the shells or bite into them and then spit the shells back into the bucket. We were getting so disgusted and annoyed with the family for allowing her to do that, but whatever! Common sense says perfect strangers do not want your kids germs. Needless to say, we were not eating out of that bucket!

Pumpkin Carving

Chris and I decided to carve a pumpkin this year, something we have never done together. I think it turned out pretty good considering I have never carved a pumpkin and it has been quite a few years since Chris had. Either way, we had fun doing it and we definitely enjoyed the pumpkin seeds I cooked.

Here are some pictures of us getting started with the cleaning of the pumpkin.





For the fun part...Chris begins the carving while I get the seeds cleaned, seasoned, and toasted.




Now my turn to get in on the carving action.



And the final product...


OK, so we kind of messed up the head, but I think we did pretty good. I hope it is noticeable what it is, but if not, it is an American flag with an eagle. Now if you couldn't tell what it was before, at least hopefully you can see it now that you know what you are looking for. :)

Picnic

Yesterday afternoon was such a beautiful day and the weather was so perfect so Chris and I decided to go to the park and have a picnic. It was kind of a last minute thing so we just picked up some Subway after church and grabbed a blanket and drove to the park. It was so relaxing and just nice to be outside. We would have never thought of having a picnic in Utah this time of year. The park is right next to a lake and we walked out onto a little docking deck. The water was not so pretty...it was pretty much all brown - it's mainly just a little fishing lake that is known to have had alligators in it...we didn't get too close! Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures, but it was just a wonderful, relaxing day together.

Stacy's Chips

So my sister and brother-in-law, Michelle and Josh, went to Wyoming for their anniversary and they saw this bag of chips and thought it was so crazy with the brand and the name of them, they took a picture of the chips and sent it to me - they are so funny! I miss them so much! So, check it out.

Stacy's Texarkana Hot, crazy right?


I have actually had these Stacy's pita chips before...but have never seen this flavor. A while back, when the chips first came out they sent a free box with all different kinds of chips apparently to every Stacy they could track down addresses for. I am not advertising for them though because personally Chris and I did not think they were tasty at all. But it is cool that these have my name and city. If I can track this flavor down, I might give these ones a try. :)

Crazy Weather

OK, so the weather here is officially crazy, but I absolutely love it! It can be perfectly sunny and then just start pouring down rain. It is still such nice, warm weather, though. Today was pretty gloomy all day, but dry - no rain. Then around 3:00it started thundering and lightning - but still no rain. By the way, I love the thunder and it does it a lot here! :) So anyway, right around 4:00 it just started putting down the rain and within 5 minutes no joke, looking out the back of our apartment from our balcony, we had like 4 separate floods going on in the field behind us. Here are some pictures so you can see just how crazy things can change within 5 minutes.






You can see towards the end of the pictures it isn't as dark and the rain is letting up a little bit. These pictures were taken a little after 3:00 so it should not be that dark outside, but the sky is just so dark and grey. The rain changes about every 5 minutes going from just a light drizzle of a rain to pouring down rain. I love it!!! And this is why everything is so green here.