Caught in the "Web" of Friends

Our first Halloween was a great one!!! I didn't know what to do for our costumes, but after much thought and help we came up with Jonny as lightning, and Me as struck by lightning. It was really easy I made the lighting bolt and got some cloths and an umbrella and Jonny and I went to town lighting things on fire! I thought it was pretty clever and everyone at our church Trunk-or-Treat thought it was awesome as well.:) The picture above is us with our friends Emily and her husband Tyler. The trunk or treat was fun, but thank goodness kids only get that much candy once a year, THEY WHERE ALL CRAZY !!!
This year Jonny and I threw a Halloween party with all of our couple friends we have made. We have made some great ones, we are so blessed to have such awesome friends as these. We had hot chili for dinner and spooky desserts as well as best couple costume, awards were given to the best spooky treat and costumes.We played games all night, ate and had so much fun !!!!!  Below are the costumes of all the Couples...

 

The winner of the costume contest was Kevin and Karen. who dressed up as characters from the movie UP as the boy and the bird. Jonny and I were runner up, but I think everyone's costumes were so great :) 

The party was so much fun, thanks to Emily Young helping me put it together... I could have not done it by myself. She was in charge of the games and it turned out to be a blast. Our apartment was filled with spiderwebs across the ceilings and and skeletons hanging around. By the end of the night with all of the spooky treats I feel like everyone left in a sugar coma..... waking up the next morning with a Sugar hangover :P ( I think im staying away form sweet things for a while). 

We are so blessed to be able to have and make such great friends and a home to have a party in. Im so excited for next years party, its going to be even SPOOKIER :D 

Carving Memories one Pumpkin at a time

  

We were so excited for Halloween and the Pumpkin carving creativity this year. When we saw the big carved pumpkins in Dallas we were inspired to do something like it. We looked on line and we decided to try our hardest to copy the pumpkin we found as best as possible, and I think we did a pretty good job with our own spin put on it. We got together with our friends Emily and Tyler and we ate Pumpkin cookies and carved away. Both of ours turned out really great. Each couple hat a pumpkin and it turned out to be a great night. The only bad thing is, for some reason pumpkins go bad here really fast here in Texas. Ours rotted and was covered with mold within 2 days... Sad, but worth carving it in the first place:) Maybe next year we might enter Jonnys company pumpkin carving contest !!!

 

 WE HOPE YOU HAVE A SPOOKTACULAR Halloween ......

Wreaths!!

This month iv made some cute crafts, Iv decided that why would I want to spend $45 on a Holiday wreath that I dont really like or spend, $15 and make one you really like... It seems like a win win to me :) I made our Holloween wreath with our H in the middle and it was sooo easy and fast, and I think it turned out super cute. Shoot if its that easy no wounder why there are places like Etsey, you can make BANK off of things like this. ( There will always be people willing to buy) My friend Emily Young saw our new wreath and wanted to make one of her own, so I went over and helped her createt her new Thanksgiving Holiday Wreath :) I think it turned out really, really cute. I just love having the last name letter in there somewhere!

I am so excited to do our christmas wreath and all of our holidays form now on, now that I know how easy and fun it is, I dont know why more people dont make them....  

Rated Meals

Thanks to my wonderful mother for teaching me how to cook, and my dad for teaching me how to experiment with foods to become not a cook but a "CHIEF"as he likes to call it, I know Jonny is sure thankful.Since Jonny and I have been married I have had to alter the way I cook a little bit.... I love spicy foods and foods that punch ya in the mouth with flavor ( got that one from my dad for sure).. but Jonny on the other hand, cant even look at a pepper without getting scared and flavors are to over powering for him......sooooo I learned to compromise with a system I made up for Jonny. I asked Jonny to rate my meals on a scale of 1-10. 1 being never make it again please, to a 10 that its restaurant quality please make it again :). Each week I try to at least have 4 nice home cook meals prepared for Jonny when he gets home from work.( he works so hard all day the least I can do is make the man a great dinner) Below are some of the meals I have made that he liked. Now in all fairness I have never gotten a 1 before thank goodness, but I tend to get 8-9.5 and a ten on a good day. Over time I started getting more 10's so Jonny had to change his system to be even harder to achieve a 10 !!!!!

Rice, salsa chicken with broccoli- 9

  Stuffed bell peppers with rice and meat- 10       

In our home you can never go wrong with Chocolate Chip pancakes, with the occasional banana pancakes so this was a 10 for sure :D                                                      

Homemade chicken and cheese pizza- 9 I added a little Tabasco hot sauce to mine and I thought it was a 10 ;)

Banana Bread some with Chocolate chips, some with pecans and some with both :) So yummy I made a bunch and gave some to friends. Jonny really likes banana bread so he gave it a 10.5... That made me feel pretty good for sure :) :) :) :) Im so happy that my husband likes my cooking, even when its a little spicy for him he still eats it, bless his heart. ( I just make sure to kiss his burning lips after dinner) So far the system has worked great and it makes me want to try hard to get higher numbers each meal !!!! I think Jonny is a pretty lucky guy and has it MADE :).

Texas State Fair

This weekend since Jonny had Friday off we decided to go to the Texas State Fair, both of us had never been to a State Fair before so we both thought it would be a great experience to go at least once ... We wish it was in Houston, but we had to drive all the way to Dallas which is 4 hrs away  but seems a lot farther. We got there and we decided to camp at a place called Cedar Hill, its right in the middle of Dallas and its Huge !! We got our campsite right on the water, it was beautiful we got there right as the sun was setting :).. That next morning we took our pink and yellow floats and hit the water, we were the only ones out there. The water was soooo nice and cool with a breeze, it felt great Jonny and I could have stayed there all day in the water... but we had a famous fair to get to !!!

The night we camped we roasted hotdogs and made s'mores, Jonny even created his own little way of roasting his mallows ... bottom right pic..This worked until he caught it of fire, then started waving it around. The flaming Mallow whipped right past my FACE, after that no more roasting hahah. For breakfast that Saturday morning we went to this famous cinnamon role  place, where they can make them bigger than the size of a cookie sheet. ( the biggest one is $75 and can feed more than 45 people) We decided just to go with the smallest size one, which was still HUGE. ( top right, that plate is bigger than a normal plate too) We ate breakfast and got stuffed really fast, we could not even finish the bun.

The fair was HUGE... a little overwhelming. There was soooo much to see and do that you didn't know which way or direction to go in. It felt like we just kinda wandered around all day, but we did see some cool things... We saw this guy who carves pumpkins, but what you may not realize is that these pumpkins are ginormous !!!  Each of these pumpkins come up to my waist and prob weigh over 400-500 pounds. With all kinds of crazy faces carved into them, it was amazing..
Of course we had to stop at the car places... Jonny had his eye on this dream truck a Ford raptor. I had to promise him that we would get one, one day just to get him to walk away from it.

 The fair was a good one, with BIG TEX in the middle ( big guy) he's been there for over 70 years, appearing every year at the state fair. He even talks to you if you stand there long enough, I thought it was cool. Our friends Emily and Tyler Young met up with us at the Ferris wheel and we took a ride together. It was a really, really big one and we could see the whole city and fair ground when we were at the top. The last thing we did was attend a show called Birds of the World... Where there was all kinds of wild birds and they did all kinds of tricks, some even sang songs to us !!! I think the most funny part of this show was, during it I was eating on a Huge turkey leg.. Poor birds hahah I just had to get a turkey leg, I remember when I was little we would go to Disney World and my parents would always get us each a turkey legs...what a great memory :) :)
The fair was a lot of fun and I am very glad that Jonny and I both were able to get our share of state fairs in.... I think we both decided that we like smaller fairs a little better. Dallas was really pretty and we will defiantly go back and camp again.

Greetings From Emmett !!

This past week my sister Jessica and Eric had there baby boy Emmett! 

This is my beautiful sister and her baby boy getting ready to go home for the first time. He is just sooo cute and little. He weighed 6lbs13oz 20.75 inches long, with blue eyes and blond hair. I am so proud of my new little nephew... I cant wait to hold him in November, during Thanksgiving time. 
Its crazy to think that my sister Vanessa is pregnant and will be having another this year. Our family is growing one baby at a time, I am so excited for our family reunions in the future. They are going to be so full of fun with all of us and little cousins running around :) :) :). 

Here are some more pics of  my new adorable nephew Emmett... 

 Born OCTOBER 10, 2013 

I just think this pic is soo cute, he is so long... LOOK at those long arms and legs :) Jessica says that he is a very quite baby who loves to snuggle and is very observant.

FALL is Finally Here !!!

I was feeling that I needed a change to help me fell that Fall is actually here and that we are done with the SUMMER HEAT.... So this is what I made Fall mantle display.

I think it turned out pretty cute, and the best part of it is I only spend $12 making it. I already had everything except the pumpkins. I am so ready for the fall and the crisp weather, for pumpkin and apple pie and cookies. and pumpkin candles and pretty much anything PUMPKIN.. ( I love pumpkin I think it smells/ tastes so good)  I am so excited to get snuggled up on the couch rather than spread apart because we are both so HOT... we are both so excited for football games, soups, candy, sweet kisses, sweaters, the giving sprite and everything that it comes with.

Battleship Texas

While driving to all of our other adventures we always passed the huge battleship Texas, so this time we decided to make that our new adventure for the weekend. It was a Beautiful day but it was a very, very HOT one. Especially inside the ship It was like you were roasting alive in there. I don't know how they all did it, out in the middle of the ocean with sun just beating down and reflecting making it worse. There were Texas Flags flying everywhere and there was lots of things to see and do while on the ship.

 There was plenty of guns that you could climb up on and aim and pretend shoot... also missiles  and ammo laying in lots of different places, I never really realized how big the missiles that they shot were. ( above im sitting on some, below Jonny is standing by one ) In the ship there were all kinds of stations: sick bay, multiple kitchens, bunkers and beds everywhere you see, parlors, surgical rooms, barbers, general stores, and even dentists. I was shocked besides the horrible living space they tried to make it seems like a little town just inside a floating metal ship with no women... ( Now does that sound like a town you would still want to live in, I think not) 
Even though the ship was HUGE it was not big enough it was built for around 1,500 men to fit and live comfortable, but around 3,500 men were actually placed on the boat !!!  That is CRAZY no wonder why there were beds just every where and any where... We climbed to the top as far as they would let us go and we enjoyed the view, it was scary climbing up there though... I went down so slow. ( You would think with me climbing the Grant Teton I would not have been scared, But I was...)
The ship was a big one and while we were walking around I found this picture of a sailor... And with me seeing pictures of Jonny at all stages it looked JUST LIKE HIM... I think we found Jonnys Doppelganger...I mean they look just a like.. if nothing else they would look like brothers or something !!! I thought that was cool to find such an old pic. that looks like my husband now, who knows what happened to that man...

 Not only did we get to see the Battleship, but we also got to see a Huge Monument (where some battle with Mexico was fought) it looks almost like the Washington Monument. The monument was on one side and the Ship on the other we were happy to even have more to do then we thought there was.






 Just the base of the thing was huge with stories around on each side telling about the battle. The picture to the right is only the bottom of the base, it wouldn't fit in the pic. We went inside and looked around and saw some old artifacts and old war outfits. I think Jonny and I both agree that people back then where really small. I mean I guess Jonny and I are pretty tall people, but I don't think any of those coats or pants would fit around Jonny's arm or leg... We even looked it up later and I think the average height was around 5'6 for the man and 5'2 for the woman.

I had so much fun going out and getting to know the history of Texas a little more, its amazing to know that there were so many battles fought here just around the corner. Texas really does have its state pride, that's for sure..... I Love my husband so much for doing so many fun things together and I am just so thankful that we can spend time together and enjoy that time to its fullest.