The Manly Play Date, Big Decisions, and Pet Peeves of a Goodie-goodie

            My FIL says my Halloween wreath is creepy and looks like death.  Sweet!  It is making it harder to close the door though; I might wait until next year to do a Christmas wreath; hopefully we will have a house.

            Matt and I had a conversation last Thursday about the next steps in our lives.  As you probably know, I am a planner.  I like to at least pretend that I know what is going to happen in the next couple of years.  One thing we decided is to buy a house before our lease expires in May. I’m like the boy who cried wolf since I talked about getting a house earlier this year and it didn’t come to fruition. However, I finally know what our expenses are and my car is paid off so we are totally ready!

            On Saturday Emilee and Aaron came to town so we could shop for baby shower goodies. The men decided to stay at our apartment and play Xbox (Gears of War 3) instead of going through such torture.  It was like a play-date; how adorable!  They were pretty grateful I must say.  I told Aaron I’m expecting a Christmas wedding next year but I have to remind myself not to bug him too much.  Matt hated all the ribbing he got.  As it is I think I know about 6 couples that will get married in the next year! 

            Speaking of Xbox, Matt is SO addicted and he plays every day for hours while he talks to his friends.  I think the Xbox might get stolen or possibly thrown out of the window.  Oops?  Netflix is being really slow and annoying lately so I wouldn’t even miss that. 

            We went to a hockey game on Friday and our team won!  It was very fun and I’m excited to have our own seats every week.  I was in a bad mood for the first part of the game because someone in our group decided that he could cross the street whenever he wanted to, even when there was oncoming traffic.  This could have caused an accident and as a worrier and goodie-goodie I was ticked off.  I’m surprised no one got hurt.

            To end on a positive note, here is a self portrait of Matt and me at a wedding reception last weekend: (Matt would argue that the correct grammar is "Matt and I" but he would be incorrect)

 Some random pictures from the pumpkin patch when we took our niece Caroline:

 They don't look like they are having fun, but they are!  Caroline was super excited to hang out with Jill's daughter Elyza :)

 She liked the goats but she kept calling them "Puppies!"  She ignored the llama.  She's too good for llamas.

 My sister said she kept talking about this corn pit the day after the trip.  Michelle thought she was talking about corn stalks or something.  She's making a corn angel!  She's a child of the corn.  No she's actually really sweet and awesome.