Happy Halloween!

We carved our pumpkins a little too early this year.  The are already starting to grow some crazy looking stuff inside, and they still have to make it two more days!  We invited some friends over last saturday to carve pumpkins with us.  The Adamsons and the Simpsons came over to join us for the festivities.  I figured you can't carve pumpkins without a little sustenance, so I made some pumpkins chocolate chip muffins.  Trevor ended up doing my dirty work while I was still baking the muffins, cutting the top off my pumpkin for me and scooping out the guts.  Austin and Kylie had to leave before we really got down to business, so here are Trevor, Reid, and Amanda starting out with the carving.



And our final products: A vizsla, a deer, a golden retriever, and some fall leaves.

I made Ruby :)

Trevor made a buck.

"Hey that looks like me!"

 

Ruby vs. The leaf blower

*Disclaimer* No animals were harmed in the making of this blog post.  She really does enjoy this.

Dove hunt

We just got back yesterday from a fun weekend in Cuero. We packed up Friday after Trevor got off work and headed to the lease for the weekend.  We ended up having a pretty big group out there which was fun!

It was the three of us

Along with Scooter and Trevor's dad

Jennifer, Bethany, and Sarah

Sarah, Logan, and Bethany 

Emily and Jennifer, and not pictured: Richard and Wesley

There were some beautiful sunrises.

Ruby was in heaven.

I got to take a lot of pictures.

And we got to spend some quality time with some quality people!

Such a great weekend, and I'm sure we will get to do it all over soon again since deer season starts in a couple weeks!

 

Kylie's Babyshower

I helped host a baby shower for Kylie last weekend. We are all so excited to meet baby Charlie who is due a month from today! We went with more of a fun day out rather than a traditional baby shower.  The day started at 11 with brunch and from there we went to the Anthony's pool to hang out by the pool.  Sadly, I didn't take any pictures from this portion of the day, but after eating tons of french toast at brunch and then putting on a bathing suit for the pool I wasn't feeling very camera friendly :)  After a fun afternoon by the pool, we all split up to shower and get ready for the evening.  We met back up at 5 for appetizers, followed by dinner at Black Sheep, and then back to the house for dessert, games, and presents.

Kylie is such a cute pregnant woman and she is going to be a great mom! I'm counting down the days until I get to meet the little guy, can't wait!!

 

Quick trip to Houston

Last week I made a quick trip to Houston to celebrate Mallory's birthday with her.  I drove down with Johnna on Wednesday and our first stop was none other than Anthropologie.  After a quick run through of the store we met up with Sarah, Mallory, and Kara for a birthday eve dinner at the Cadillac Bar.  We closed the place down and were really confused on why no one else was there at 10:00...until we realized it was a Wednesday night.  It felt like a Friday to us since we had taken the rest of the week off!

The next day was Mal's birthday so we met up for brunch at Tiny Boxwood.  Love that place!

We spent the rest of the afternoon doing what we do best, shopping.  I love shopping with these two because we all know each others style so well.  We played a game all day where we would pick a mannequin with an outfit on and all had to say who would be most likely to wear the outfit.

Once we had bought everything that we "loved" we headed back to Mal and Rob's apartment.  Their back door opens up to a miniature putt putt golf course so we grabbed Rob's putters and played a round. We hung out around there until it was time for them to start getting ready to go out to dinner to celebrate her birthday together.

Sarah dropped me off at Trevor's parents house just in time to go to dinner with Trevor's dad and then go watch Trevor's cousin, one of our flower girls, Caroline, play in a soccer game.  Her team was undefeated and they were playing a team that was also undefeated so it was sure to be a good game!  It was dark by the time we got there so it was hard to get a good picture.  I played around with the settings on my camera for a while to try to get a good shot.

This one is blurry, but it is Caroline scoring a goal!

She's the cute yellow one on the right :)

Action shot with her dad, the team's coach, watching on the sidelines.

And this is what her little sister, Catherine, was doing the whole time, playing with friends in the dirt and getting pony rides :)

It was an exciting game and they ended up winning 6-0!!!  Trevor was so jealous that he didn't get to go. It was fun to see Matt & Melinda and the girls and hear Trevor's dad tell me stories from when he coached Trev's teams on the same fields!  After the game we headed home and passed out pretty quickly.  The next morning I headed back to Corpus with Kara since she was coming to town for Kylie's baby shower.  It was a quick trip, but it was so fun to see so many people I love in the middle of the week!