Year of the Wedding part III

Yes this is the year of the weddings. My good friend from high school got hitched November 4 on a beautiful golf course in Northern California and became Lauren Gordon.It was a beautiful and meaningful ceremony centered around God and love.
I love this picture of her...could she look any happier?
I didn't mean to take this picture so close up I was trying to get a shot of the couple...But I really loved her dress so I can't complain. I assumed when the invitation said the ceremony would start at 5pm that it would start until 5:30 so we showed up at 5 and sat on the back row...perfect for picture taking!
My dates. Since Evan was still in Florida I took another great high school friend, Kristi, and her husband, Joesph, as my dates to the wedding.
Yup really pregnant...33.5 weeks
I only got a picture of the cake...But the decorations were very classy...just like the bride

Halloween

Evan's Dad's birthday is on Halloween. The night before Evan's sister made a lovely dinner for the family and I provided the entertainment. We made scary witch fingers (Pillsbury pizza dough rolled out really skinny with almond sliver finger nails and marinara blood sauce), caramel apples (my absolute new favorite fall tradition) and pin the nose on the Jack-O-Lantern.Since I work with kids I had a great excuse to dress up for Halloween. I wanted to do something pregnancy related-because who knows the next time I'll be 32 1/2 weeks pregnant at Halloween. So I dressed up as...


A Magic 8 ball. My friend Kendra helped me put it together...She is quite creative. I called her up one night and said "I want to be a magic 8 ball and you have to help me"! She came up with a clever way to make the fabric inside the shirt turn to have different answers on it. I only had time to make two answers so you either got a "No" or a "Yes." It was a fun costume and very comfy-I'm not a huge fan of discomfort these days;)

Pumpkin Carving

I haven't always been Halloween's biggest fan, but in recent years I have really been taken a liking to the holiday. Evan and his brother left for the 2.5 day drive to Florida on Friday October 28th and that night I went to his sister's house to carve pumpkins.

Before the fun began...Here we are carving the pumpkins. The boys shared one and the girls shared one. They were much more interested in carving this year then they were last year-they even helped get all the slime out.

The after picture. I think little Klinton was sad because we wouldn't let him use the sharp knife (he'll thank us later I'm sure)

Setting up the crib

Evan's brother flew down to Arizona to DRIVE with Evan all the way to Florida. Evan went to a medical conference in Orlando the last week in October and then he had a two week rotation in Largo, Florida. He was able to hang out in his home town for a few days and see old friends and his Alma Mater (Go Hawks).

Before the boys left with the help of Grandpa Norby (who also flew down-but to have a root canal) they set up the baby's crib. It turned out to be more of an ordeal then anticipated. We had ordered the crib months ago and let it sit in the box. Well when Evan opened it up it was the wrong color! So he called around to the different stores to find out which ones had the color we wanted in stock. But since we have a little car he also had to go to Home Depot and buy some supplies to attach the giant box to the roof of the car to be able to take it to the store and return it. When he got to the store they wanted to charge Evan for the exchange since we bought it on sale and online. Luckily Evan put his foot down and only had to pay a little additional tax for the exchange. So when I returned home from work there was a beautiful baby crib set up in our baby's room.

I asked Evan to take pictures of the men setting up the crib, but he misunderstood me so I don't have any pictures of the process of the crib assembly. However, I couldn't really complain after hearing how long it actually took to set it up!

Evan pretending to kiss our little bundle of joy!