Pumpkinfest 2008

On Saturday, we had our friends, the Baileys, over to carve pumpkins, roast pumpkin seeds, and eat pumpkin bread. This was the second annual "Pumpkinfest", and we had so much fun! We enjoyed cleaning the goo out of our pumpkins. We even found a plant in one of them:


(Too bad our plant unit at school isn't until the spring!)

We had fun carving our pumpkins and spending time with good friends. Of course, we also enjoyed way too much pumpkin bread and too many pumpkin seeds! (The rest of us waited until our pumpkin seeds were cleaned off and roasted!) :)


Here is the picture of our pumpkins: (My pictures of Katie and Chad's were blurry...)

I love this commercial

It always makes me smile!

What a Weekend!

Mat and I have been blessed throughout our lives with great friends. This weekend some of our good friends from OC, Rob and Sarah Long, came to visit. They came in on Thursday night, so we got to enjoy a long weekend with the Longs. We spent a lot of time catching up, showing them around Austin, and of course eating lots of good food!

We went to IKEA and REI on Friday. Mat spent some time at REI looking at the new toy he wants- an inflatable kayak. (More to come on that later...). Friday night, we "slipped on down to the Oasis"-even though our friends are NOT from low places :-) We enjoyed our dinner and the beautiful sunset. It was an absolutely perfect night for enjoying the outside.

We spent time Saturday downtown (not thinking about all of the people that would be down there for the Texas/Missouri game). We ate lunch at the Hula Hut, and then headed to Lady Bird Lake to rent some kayaks. Mat and I have talked since we moved to Austin about renting kayaks at the lake, and we were so glad to finally spend some time down there. We only spent about an hour on the lake, but we had so much fun. We got some great pictures and enjoyed the beautiful day. As we were leaving, Mat saw a couple in the inflatable kayak he wants, and after talking to them, he is convinced he needs one!
Rob and Sarah got married this summer at the Oklahoma capitol building, so after our kayaking adventure, we decided to show them the Texas capitol building. Saturday night we decided to take it easy and order pizza and enjoy some college football. It was a wonderful weekend that came to an end much too quickly!

Tag!

I've been tagged by my cousin Ashley to post the 6th picture in the 6th file of my photos. I think I did this right...It was taken in June of 2006 on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. Mat and I were celebrating our first anniversary.



I tag Haley, Mindi, Megan, and Sarah.

Columbus Day

In 1492
Columbus sailed the ocean blue...

And thanks to him I get to enjoy the day off!

Today has been a (much needed) relaxing day of movies, lunch with a friend, and spending way too much time on the computer. I have spent a lot of time working on a few different headers, and today I finally got one to work with my blog. I used this digital scrapbooking website to make my header. It was so much fun!

New Header

**I obviously figured it out! There was one little button in the Edit HTML section that I needed to click and my header showed up...finally!

I made a new header, but for some reason it isn't showing up on my blog. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

These are a few of my favorite things...

I saw someone else list 25 things that make them happy on their blog, and it got me thinking about some of my favorite things.

1. my charming husband (Mat loves it when I call him charming!)
2. spending time with my family and friends
3. scrapbooking
4. having a clean house
5. having an empty laundry hamper
6. watching baseball
7. singing old church hymns
8. chick flicks
9. relaxing Saturdays with no plans
10. Autumn Harvest Yankee candles
11. warm chocolate chip cookies
12. Decorating for the holidays (fall & Christmas)
13. clean sheets
14. eating out
15. a warm fire on a cold day (which doesn't happen often in TX!)
16. traveling
17. pumpkin bread (I have some in the oven right now)
18. the way my house smells when I'm cooking pumpkin bread
19. fresh flowers of any kind
20. fresh fruit
21. shopping for new shoes
22. good books
23. rainy days (but only when I can stay at home and be lazy)
24. flying on airplanes and staying in hotels (yes, this is different from traveling)
25. playing games