New season = new blog decor :) The background is my creation.  The leaf bouquet is pulled from some free download - as is everything in our header (less our picture, of course :) )

Thanks to Halloween being on a Saturday, I was able to take down Halloween and put up Thanksgiving on November 1st - I'm quite proud of this fact :)

As for Halloween itself - it was rather uneventful.  Training was fun because everyone was dressed up.  I wore my corset and fangs etcetera because I figured that would elicit a better reaction.  Then I came home and changed into my poodle skirt and spend the day cleaning.  We went to Matt's parents' for some dinner, then came back home to hand out candy to our 2 trick-or-treaters.  Aw well.  Matt's family came over to visit, and our Xbox got some good use (not like it doesn't usually....).  We also managed to finish rearranging our living room.  Nothing too drastic, but it sure was a hard thing to figure.  I like it - now if I could just finish getting it clean!

And now for the fun part - pictures!

They decided the car really is under warranty, and there is an engine on they way.  When Matt bought the car at Legacy Mazda 2.5 years ago, they didn't do whatever was necessary to transfer the warranty to his name.  We stopped by the dealership the other night,but the guy to do that wasn't there.  Yesterday, Matt got to the dealership and got it put in his name so they can do the work.  Hopefully that engine gets here soon!

The last post was #100 - and I totally didn't acknowledge that milestone!  So here's to 101 posts! Woot! lol

Car dead.

Due to the weather (stupid rain and cold), we didn't do the couple activities I had for outside.  And the one thing I had for indoors didn't get finished because I had to go into work on Saturday.  Thanks to that fact and that I still had to stop at some stores to pick things up, I was running late!  I got to Caleen's about 4:30 probably.  Fortunately, our family has a tendency to run late too :)

So once I got to Caleen's and hauled all of my stuff in, I got started on the soup.  Now I'd just like to note that I do NOT cook.  Matt is the cook in our house.  I bake if anything - and I've done limited easy things from scratch, and I can do things in boxes.  I have generally felt I could probably follow a recipe, but never took the time and effort to prepare and follow through.  Being a picky eater my whole life didn't really help the cause, either.  However! I was in search of festive foods for a main dish and a punch - thank you Taste of Home.

I made this delicious pumpkin soup.  A lot of people were like, "I've never had pumpkin soup before," and I'd reply, "Neither have I!"  However, it turned out really well.  Lots of compliments.  Even my littler cousins enjoyed it.  Since I was busy making soup, Grandma made the punch for me.  It's supposed to be slushy, but we didn't have time to freeze it.  It was yummy all the same. 

So we had dinner - my cousins made adorable festive desserts.  The BYU game was on in the other room.  Gestures was played in the kitchen.  And I was not the only one to dress up :) I was beginning to wonder at first, but the beardalls were nicely decked out :)  In all the hustle and bustle, I didn't grab my camera.  Then when I tried to take pictures with my cell phone, I didn't have enough memory.  Weird, cuz I swear I recently cleared it... Oh well.  We had fun - and names got drawn for Christmas :)  Next time I plan a party, I'm doing it with more than a week in advance.

After what, I feel, was a pretty good sprint of blog posts, I've been feeling like I have nothing blog-worthy.  However, that's not too fair to anyone who checks this with any consistency.  I've started work on another scarf.  Double crochet this time.  (I need to learn the basics before I can even think of following patterns for anything!)

Also on the agenda - this Saturday, we're having a Halloween party with my mom's side of the family!  Koreen and I were thinking how we really needed to get together.  If we don't do something now, we'll have to wait until Thanksgiving to draw names for Christmas! I want more time than that, thank you.  So I've kind of thrown something together.  It won't be maybe the most well-planned as it could have been, but I still think it will be fun :)  I also designed the invitations. :D Here it is - with the pertinent info purposely blurred.

Matt and I are SO blessed. :)  Yesterday, Matt ends up with no oil in his car and a slight knocking noise - we're looking probably at $1-2,000 to fix the poor car.  Thank goodness for family discounts (thanks Dusty!)  Also yesterday, Matt was too lazy to put his ankle brace on before playing basketball and dislocated his ankle.  Oh, and we still have no money - even less so this month between not selling anything and lack of work on my end.  This is going to be a tight month.

On the plus side, Matt did finally sell something today - 2 generators.  Yay for some money!  Sigh.