Trick or Treat!

Tick or Treat....Give me something good to eat....if you don't....I don't care....I'll pull down your underwear!! Oh the joys of Halloween!! Today was awesome!! Mike carved this amazing pumpkin this afternoon and it looked great!! Mike's parents stopped by and my parents were already here for the weekend. I also had off the weekend since I'm taking a class Mon, Tues, and Wed. We then went to Target and Walmart and my parents took us to dinner at the Hibachi grill :) When we got home it was game time. We had all the decorations ready to go and lit the fabulous pumpkin!! We also got a super scary halloween sounds CD from Walmart and had it playing outside under the bench. We had tonz of Trick or Treaters and almost ran out of candy, but we squeaked by :) A bunch of the kids were scared from the halloween sounds and the dogs barking like crazy which made them run the opposite direction, but they would come back and get their candy...we also had tonz of comments on our costumes and our decorations and Mike's pumpkin was a hit :) While we were at Walmart we also picked up our costumes....I got a witches hat and creepy hands and Mike got a Jason mask. Happy Halloween all!!

Halloween!!

I took this picture today...it was freezing and SUPER windy...as you can see from the picture. Due to all of the rain and not being able to mow the grass and then not having the equipment to put out the graveyard pieces....it took until today to put them out. So I spent a while rigging the nails together so the graveyard pieces would stick in the ground since our grass is so thick and waa-laa...A GRAVEYARD!! A mini one at least haha. There is a witch windsock, a vampire windsock, spooky and beware signs, the graveyard, skulls looking like pirates lining the sidewalk, a pumpkin in the flowerbed, another windsock with a cat in a pumpkin, and last but not least a lit up pumpkin on the bench in the walkway. We still haven't carved our pumpkin...we're going to do that closer to halloween and put that on the bench eventually. Also, the little garden flag is a B (for Bassi) that my awesome mom got Mike and I :) The wind was blowing super hard which is why not everything is clear, but you can get the point. We have a few decorations in the house and we have our halloween candy in the pantry just waiting to be eaten, I mean handed out to Trick or Treaters. I have to work that night, but my fabulous parents are coming up for the weekend so Mike will have some company while handing out candy :)

Cool Pictures

Here are a couple awesome photoshop pictures that one of Mike and I's good friends did. His name is George and he's one of the dispatchers I work with. He definitely has some awesome skills b/c these pictures rock!! I thought they were really cool and I wanted to share them with everyone :) I honestly think the one where the bridesmaids and groomsmen are in black and white and Mike and I are in color...oh we just look soo good haha. The other one of us lovely ladies in color and the manly men in black and white...it's definitely cool looking. Enjoy!!

The First Mow

Here's Mike mowing our lawn for the first time. Wow it looks soo much better!! It took us forever to mow since it rained for a week!! Or at least it seemed like it haha. My parents got us a great lawnmower for a housewarming gift and my dad and Mike went to pick out a weedeater while they were up here :) All of it worked great and the yard looks awesome!!! The dogs are also loving running around in a nicely mowed yard :) Oh and the best part was when Mike went to weedeat and he put on his camis and boots...that was super hot and well awesome ;)

Family at the House

Here are some pics of the family at our new house :) On the left is Jim, Lexi, Rich, and me and Mike...Jan is taking the picture and Bronx and Olivine are roaming around somewhere. On the right are my parents, Dave and Marie on our lovely sofa couch. We had a long day of running errands and fixing up the house. A couple nights later we had some friends over and Mike's brother Matt stopped by for a bbq, which was tonz of fun!! Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures :( Mike got to use his new grill and cook really good hamburgers and my mom and I were in charge of the beans. We're definitely enjoying having everyone over to the new house :)

Closing Day!!

Yeah...isn't this a great picture?? Haha. Mike and I woke up to our phones ringing off the wall and both dogs jumping up on the bed to cuddle. The dog part was entertaining and cute, but all of the phone calls about the check we needed to bring to closing coming an hour and a half before our alarm was set wasn't so great. When we finally got the exact amount it was super exciting though b/c it was a lot less than we thought we were going to have to bring!! When we started to get up, Bronx crawled in my lap and Olivine crawled on Bronx and this is what we ended up with haha.
Mike and I loaded up our cars with boxes and heading down to Burleson to run by Lowe's and then close!! The closing started an hour late, which sucked, but once it was over it felt soo good!! We then got the keys and headed to our new home...to find the electricity off and that the seller's did absolutely NO cleaning before they left so that is our mission for tomorrow...new fridge, clean, and paint! Mike headed to class once we loaded all the boxes inside and I stayed to clean a little and get some stuff organized.
We can't wait to get all settled in and have everyone over!! And of course, we can't wait for all the random drop by visits...I miss those b/c it always happened at our house when I was a kid...it was the neighborhood hang out...mainly b/c we had fruit roll ups and tonz of other food so all the kids would come and raid our pantry haha :) Love you all!!

House Stuff

So the latest on the house is final walk through on Sunday the 30th to check everything out and make sure all is well. We're going to close on Sept 2nd and then Sept 5th we're moving!! We sooo can't wait!! We still have some more to pack, but it's coming along just fine. The moving company we went with last time was absolutely horrible, but this time we're using off duty Fort Worth firefighters so we know they'll be reliable. Well we can't wait for everyone to come see the new house when we're all settled in!!

Adoption Day

Here is a pic of us on Adoption Day at PetsMart :) Bronx and Olivine were distracted due to there being a bunch of other dogs around, but they at least sat there for the picture haha. Oh aren't we just all so adorable.
It's been going pretty well so far with Olivine. She definitely still has her puppy tendencies so we're working on those. She usually messes with her toys, but she attached the blinds last night when i left for work and Mike was in class so that was bad. She also found the disposable cameras from forever ago and chewed on them (they were on the bottom of the entryway table so in reaching distance). Other than that it's all going well with her.