Our Pumpkys

We carved our pumpkins together, baked seeds, and set them outside of our home... awe.  What a tradition!  This was the first time I used a stencil (since David's pumpkins are so artistic, I had to step it up so at least my pumpkin could be seen next to his).  I did a ghosty and David did the Night Before Christmas dude :)

Evans Carving

So my mom came to visit for fall break and Sunday October 17th we all carved pumpkins Steph found!  At first we tried to carve this very hard gorge, but that didn't work, so we stuck with a normal one.  It was scary watching all the kids with huge knifes, but I got over it.  More fun family times to document:

Yeah she's crazy :) But I love her...

We've moved!

In August we moved out of our first home as marrieds and headed to our new home just a few miles away.  We are very excited to have a new place to grow into, except, we already have filled it pretty much :)  I'm pretty sure we doubled our home in size.  We've moved to Midvale and are even in a ward that David spent a few of his high school years in.  It's a great ward.  We get to live in a family owned home for a bit while still in school and in Utah.  We feel very blessed and excited to have a place for awhile to call home.  Any place is good as long as I have my hubby :)...  But we've had a lot of fun getting it all ready to live in.  We painted, got new carpet, cleaned it all up, and finally brought our stuff in.  It was sad to leave our first home together, but by the end of all the cleaning and stuff, I was ready to let that apartment go.  Time to move on and upward right?  Yep.

It was fun putting together our rooms and fitting it all in how we like it.  I loved having David there to help and give input.  He did all the hard work of hanging things, building shelves and kitchen storage cabinets while I just kept giving us more work to do :)  It's finally looking how we had hoped, and here are a few pictures of our home for the next two years....

I do have to say these pictures also have our decorations up for HALLOWEEN!!!  So, the front rooms have a bit of decorations, we're loving these holiday seasons.  More to come on that for sure in the coming posts.

This is our family/living room.  You walk in through the door below or there's a side door coming from the carport to the middle of the opposite side between the family room and kitchen area...

There is a nice huge window to look out during the day or watch the snow fall... as we have hot chocolate (which we so do have daily in our yellow tea kettle!!)

So the railing below leads downstairs to the in-laws, but its boarded up and they have their own entrance.

And our TV display with all our pictures and memorabilia - awe :)  We need to get other family pictures up soon...

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!  These are our "ghosties"...

 And this is the view from the side door into the kitchen and below is from the kitchen to the door.

 This is the hallway from the kitchen to the bathroom on the left, our bedroom straight ahead and then the study and extra room on the right...

 Yeah, the clothes are all mine... i know...

 I spent a few days organizing one of our hall closets and whenever I feel dis-organized, now I just come look at this and smile since it just helps to see something put together right - i know weird.

 His and her desks...

I'll get one of the outside soon too...  And the 3rd bedroom but I guess I forgot.  The 3rd is mostly storage and games, music instruments, etc.  It is so nice to have a real home though!!  Much more room, and still have it totally full.  We love it.  Come visit and we'll show you around!!

Pumpkin Patch

October 16 we took Clark family pictures and then all headed to pick pumpkins from the local patch.  It was a perfect fall day, which was nice considering the week before it was rainy and the week after snowy. We had fun deciding what we'd carve with the different shaped pumpkins and finally figured out the ones we were getting.  We helped the kids and grandpa Clark too.  Fun family moments....

Grandpa Clark is waving below....

This is my sweet sister-in-law and my nephew that is 1 now - I'm so glad to have her as my new sis, she's just wonderful!!

The whole crew...

Sweets....

So we found this puzzle, and just HAD to get it.  These are some of David's favorite candies.  It was pretty tough - but nice to have a more stimulating project and fun conversation.  Whoever came to visit helped us put a bit of it together... all made with love.  1000 piece candy puzzle... now if only it were real for David, but Halloween candy will work right??

My Eagle Scout!

David's little brother Joshua got his Eagle a few weekends ago.  David and Jonathan were able to wear all of their old Scout badges, shirt, etc.  And both presented something to Josh too.  I haven't been to one of those where a scout gets his eagle... strange because my brother got his, but I think I was at college.  It was interesting for sure.  Long ceremony type with ward and family members...  It was great to see Josh get his Eagle after all of his and his parents work - and very fun to see his older brothers there supporting.  They're big examples to all their younger siblings.  Okay, so I told them their shirts were kind of silly, but honestly, I'm just so proud to have married an Eagle Scout.  And one who did so much and even more than needed - can you believe he camped every month of the year in Utah snow for all scout years!?!?  Crazy!  I know our blog is all lovey dovey but oh well, we love it :)  Here are a few pictures from the festivities....

The only good pizza...

I'm a strange American.  I don't like milk, I don't like brownies, and don't really like pizza.  Yep, I get the crazy looks of... "what?? no pizza??!?!?!?  You crazy!"  Yeah, and I do crave it every 3-4 months, just a piece or so of Hawaiian or something.  I can't really explain it except maybe it's because all pizza's that I grew up with were greasy greasy and cardboardish...

David has changed my world yet again :).  He's introduced me to REAL pizza!!  Yep, I'm here to say that everyone needs to try this.  I have no idea why we Americans haven't embraced other better, healthier pizzas out there.

Italian.  Pizza.  Yep.  It's the best.  You'll either have to go to Italy, or find one of the very few real Italian restaurants, or just believe me.  They use wood ovens to cook their thin dough with mozzarella chunks and tomato chunks.  You can add other toppings but the pizzas are more made to fold up and stuff so it gets a bit messy.  My favorite is the regular margherita pizza.  It's just so great.  You can eat your own whole pizza and you won't feel sick or fatty, etc.  It's wonderful.  So, there is this great little place in SLC called Settebellos.  It is real Italian.  David took me there on one of our first dates, and I fell in love.  Little did he know that I didn't like pizza, but this was different.  We've gone back a few times, I just keep making excuses to get us there - to show our visitors the place, to take someone for their birthday, etc etc.  One day David just suggested we go there as a date night.... so of course I couldn't say no, and we said we'd share a pizza.  But you'll notice below that once we were there, we couldn't do it.  It's just too good to share....  Anyway, if you are ever in SLC (or there's one in Vegas) we'll take you there and give you a new addiction like I have :) :)

These were from our date night on Sept 11th. :)