halloween

grant's first halloween! woot woot! i'm not gonna lie....i don't love halloween. and now that i have a kid, i have to do the whole costume thing for....forever. i guess when you're a poor married college student you don't really want to spend extra money on halloween costumes that you wear once. but...maybe one day i'll love it. when i'm rich. ;) {not} nevertheless, we dressed grant up as a nebraska cornhusker football player! he already had a helmet so, it made sense. 

i think it was the monday before halloween, here in rexburg at hemming village they had a little trick or treat thing going on. so norman and i went with our friends. it was fun and my cute friend had the CUTEST costumes for her and her little family. all frozen themed of course. very popular this year. and i was just in love with her new baby boy, kyrie as a little olaf. it was the cutest ever. 

{we of course needed a pic of my dad dad...past cornhusker player....with grant as a mini husker!}

on halloween we drove to pocatello to spend the evening with family. we had chili and cornbread at my moms, took some obligatory pictures and then headed to trick or treat with my sister and her cute kiddos. afterwards we headed to my in-laws to show off our handsome boy, put him to bed, and then went and played games with friends. it was a lot of fun and we stayed out til 1 am! which is crazy for us old people. i felt like a teen again! ;) i get tired around 9:00 these days! so it was quite the feat. 

then we chilled on saturday...i played some volleyball with old friends, and we headed back home to enjoy the extra hour that night of sleep. thank goodness for daylight savings. 

hope everyone else had a great halloween weekend! let the holidays begin!

a walk and some pumpkin

so as i have previously mentioned....i have been quite lazy lately.

well, norman has about had it with my lying on the couch all day...and so have i to be honest.

so the other day he threatened me to get out and go do something. which is a little bit hard when you don't have a car, but not TOO hard because i live downtown by lots of stuff.

so a couple days ago, i got up, put some clothes on and headed out to hit the pavement. and i will tell you it was a perfect day for it. it was sunny and a little bit hot but had that nice cool breeze to make you keep your sweater on.

i walked, took some pictures, went into some antique stores, and of course stopped by great harvest. i got a pumpkin chocolate chip muffin {really the only pumpkin-y thing i love....well pumpkin chocolate chip anything...but that's it} and some hot cocoa. and i will tell you, great harvest has some good hot chocolate....topped with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. it was delightful.

so i took my hot chocolate, muffin, and free slice of bread they give you as a courtesy, and walked my fat butt down to the river, sat on a bench and hung out for a good hour.

it was so great.

felt so nice to be outside.

i don't know if you guys know this, but my apartment has no windows....it gets a little dungeon-y feeling. and depressing.

so the sun was great.

those geese down there at the greenbelt are FEARLESS! they saw i had food and were creepin on me the whole time. freaked me out.....{thanks for that alfred hitchcock}.

but nonetheless it was a fabulous afternoon.

so since i've been telling everyone here on this little blog about how lazy i've been, i thought i'd share that i DO sometimes go do stuff.

i'm currently almost 16 weeks pregnant. and i have a little less than 3 weeks til i found out the gender! i have gotten heartburn lately....which is not the most pleasant. i've never had heartburn before so that was an interesting surprise. i also get headaches at night. and i have some crazy dreams {anyone else been recruited for a ninja school?...i didn't think so}. so my sleeping has been interesting. i don't sleep near as well as i used to, but i guess i should get used to that. :)

so there's my little update.

on the upside....general conference is this weekend!! best weekend ever. and i was thinkin the other day....by the time the next general conference comes around at the beginning of april, i'll have a baby!! WHAT?!? that's weird to think about.

hope everyone has a good weekend!