Happy Halloween

Friday night was our super fun Halloween Party! I think the fact that I was never allowed to celebrate Halloween growing up has made me love to celebrate it as an adult! We had a costume party for some of our friends. Everybody got really into and put a lot of thoughts into their costumes. Thanks to Amber, Nathan, Jill, Andrew, Jenny J., Rob, Anya, Brandon, Jenny M., Steve, Liz, Kyle, Jenny H. and Jace for all coming!! I've attached some fun pictures from the party :)

On a totally different subject, I just have to share a movie with you that I hope that NO ONE else will have to see! Marie Antoinette! If you are thinking of going....DON'T DO IT! It was the most boring movie I've ever seen. And anyone who knows me at all knows that I like almost every movie. My movie standards are really not that high! I have a review on yahoo under their movie review section if you are dying to read it. I went with Sarah and Rachel and we were both SO bored. The best part of the movie was when it was finally over! Ok, I could go on and on but I am getting all worked up again so I better stop now!

And now, enjoy some pics :)

Pictures!

A Story

Sorry to all my loyal readers for how long its taken for this post. I promise I will try to do better! WELL, gosh, so much has happened since my last post. :) Ok, not really. Rusty and I have been a little under the weather. I thought the up-side to that would be tons of quality time together. I was wrong. We spent our sick-day home together with Rusty watching about 8 hours of football (or something else on ESPN), and me, watching 8 hours of Law and Order, SVU on the other TV. That show is so addicting! I blame the USA network for showing THAT many episodes in a row!

I've been asked to share some fun trip stories from our European Vacation! Several come to mind, but I will start out with a foreign eating experience. Almost the entire time in Paris, we ate at little cafe's, mainly because it is much easier to just point at something in a display case and order it rather than trying to communicate in french with the locals at a restaurant! So, we finally conjured up the nerve to go to a fancy (and totally overpriced) restaurant which overlooked the Louvre! We thought it would be a great first place to try our highschool (and some college) francais. So we get a menu and pull our our trusty french/english menu translater book. NOTE: do NOT waste money on these books...it is guaranteed that nothing you actually want to find will be in one of these books. So, anyways, we try to get our waiter to speak english. I'm sure he spoke perfect english, but he pretended like he didn't. So finally he tried to help us make out a few things. One thing he said was noodles with sauce-sounded safe. And another dish he said was a very delicious risotto dish. Both seemed pretty normal so we went with it. About 20 minutes later I see our waiter walking towards us carrying something with whiskers and eyeballs. I think "surely this isn't OUR food". But, alas, he stops at our table and sets the food with eyes in front of me. ( I should mentioned that technically, RUSTY ordered the thing with eyes. But I let that slide.) So Rusty starts in on his noodles with what we decided was Ragu sauce, no meat, and I attempted to eat my eyeball dish. I took a few bites but just couldn't do it. I did, however, eat the risotta which was UNDERNEATH the eyeball thing and that, was delicious.

So, there is the first trip story for any of you who were waiting to hear one! Sorry....we realized later that we should have taken a picture of it but we were so grossed out that we totally forgot! Oh, and the worst part was that my dish alone cost more than a good old American meal for 2 at Applebees!

Ok-I have been trying to get some pictures up but for some reason blogger isn't putting them on my post! Sorry...I'll have to try again later. Pic to come soon!

The Office

I think the title of this post clearly reflects what we are excited about this week. The season premier of THE OFFICE! We are so excited. We are having a little "Office watching party" this Thursday night for anyone who is a fan of The Office and would like to come! Give me a call if you're interested in coming! So far Jenny and Robby, Anya and Laura are coming! We'd love for Amber and Nathan to come if they can make it!

We had a pretty good weekend. The most exciting part of our weekend was that we got a new car! Its a Nissan Pathfinder SUV. Its really Rusty's car but I am excited too. Now we have a vehicle to take all our camping gear in! Rusty is the most excited I've ever seen him. Sarah came home for the weekend, it was great to see her!! We're really looking forward to The Covered Bridge Festival coming up in about a month!

Here are a few more Europe pics for your viewing pleasure!

Finally...some pictures!!

Sorry it took so long to get pictures on here! We've had a hectic last few days. We decided to take on a big home improvement project...painting 2 rooms plus the foyer and adding a chair rail with wainscoting. Of course, I thought we'd have the project done in 1 day. I must have been delusional because we still (3 days later) only have one of the rooms painted. And it still needs touched up. I always underestimate how long it will take to do things!

Rusty's going to try to put together a website with all the Europe pics so that they can be viewed easier than trying to post on here. But I'll try to post a few different pics at each posting. All of these were taken in Paris! The first ones are all at the Musee d'Orsey which had all impressionalist paintings...really awesome!!

First One!

Well...I finally broke down and started a blog! Not that our life is currently that interesting that anyone would want to read about it, but just in case...now you will be able to! Hopefully soon I will post some pics from our recent trip to Europe. Stay tuned for some exciting stuff to come...