Happy Halloween!

Dan and I kind of failed on the Halloween front this year. I did buy some mini pumpkins to decorate a bookcase with...but that's about it. No pumpkin carving and no costumes. We did go to our ward Halloween party on Saturday. That was fairly entertaining. The best costume there was by our friends who dressed up their little girl as Amelia Earhart, Dad had a huge cardboard plane on him, and mom had a globe ball deflated and covering her cute baby bump. It was pretty awesome. Anybody have good costumes they did?

Greece and Turkey

Source: None via Ashley on Pinterest

Yeah, we just bought our tickets to go here over Dan's spring break. It's going to be awesome!!!! : )

Ma momma

This is my mom. She's pretty much awesome. Her birthday was yesterday and she got stuck at an airport with all sorts of plane issues, and then her phone died so I couldn't even call her to wish her a happy birthday for reals. Have I told you she's one of my favorite people? She's funny, she's happy, she's personable, she's smart, she's a cheerleader, she's a lover of people.... I could go on and on. But I won't. I'll just say, she's an amazing mom and I hope that some day when I have my own children I can be as fun, loving, insightful, amazing, etc. as she is. Momma, I'm glad you were borned.

Mooooore Pumpkin please!

 You know how I bought all of those cans of pumpkin? Yeah they're almost all gone already.

 This weekend I made these cookies.

They're pretty good, but I think I'd maybe add some dried craisins to sweeten it up a bit. They're kind of like eating a chewy granola bar, nothing to get too excited about, but decent.

Heirloom tomatoes deliciousness

 This weekend, I was walking through a farmer's market and decided to try out these "heirloom tomatoes" everyone seems to rave about.

 I do think they're delicious--maybe not $2 a pop delicious, but they're definitely better than regular tomatoes... more real.

 So of course I made bagels with tomatoes. Do you guys eat this? This is a somewhat staple in my family.

 Bagel, cream cheese, tomato slices, and a little salt and pepper.

Perfectly yum!

Columbus Day

I was in desperate need of a little break from the crazyness at the hospital. Thank goodness for Columbus!

I looked at recommendations for restaurants here, and we decided to go check out Mary's Fish Camp. The Lobster rolls are very very good, but I think we'll wait to go again when they're more in season and a little less expensive. We also had the oysters... I'm not sure if they were good because I discovered that I think oysters are disgusting sooooo.... yeah, if you like oysters, maybe they're good there? It ended up being a lot more expensive than we'd planned on but that's because we got the disgusting oysters and then the market price for the lobster rolls was pretty high. Oh well, the lobster rolls were quite yummy and you could tell there was a whole lobster in there=yum!

 My coleslaw was also very good, nice and tangy with minimal mayo=perfect!

 Afterward we went and walked a few blocks down and over and saw the Huxtable residence! The Cosby Show was based in Brooklyn, but this was the outside of their home.

 Then we went and walked around Washington Square Park.

Dan hadn't been here since he was in high school. Crazy huh?

I wanted to be that girl sitting on the grass reading and listening to the jazz

A very patriotic Washington

Jazz players. The guy was somehow playing harmony with himself--he had two trumpets (?) going at the same time!

Ma handsome man

I need a haircut. Any recommendations?

We wandered around, went and looked in some shops, and headed back home. It was a perfectly gorgeous day!

Conference Thoughts...

This is what I was thinking about when watching Conference the other weekend.

1. The Lord makes you enough for whatever He calls you to do
2. You don't have kids because they're the cute new accessory, and don't delay them until it's the "perfect" time.--it will never be the perfect time (but I still think you can be smart about it, just don't delay for some more the more worldly reasons)
3. Whenever we have a little girl, Dan is re-reading the talk by Sis. Dalton
4. You can be a missionary every day