last night, we joined the harts for our second annual pumpkin carving party. the evening consisted of eating way too many of chane's amazing pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, lots of pumpkin guts, tons of creativity and a few close encounters with knives and fire. we again realized how difficult pumpkin carving is {even with the $4 kits!} and discussed the origin of this fall pastime {the irish started it. who knew?} last year i went for the ever challenging spider web, which is never to be duplicated again. so, this year i chose the hoot-owl. definitely a lot easier then charlotte's web.
we did have a lot of creativity flowing, and the hart's even designed their own! tyler also discovered etching and made an entirely new design on the back of his pumpkin. what a fun night! here we are with our masterpieces!
this afternoon was my first photo shoot with sweet ryan lily. we had a blast running around kiesel park searching for dogs and enjoying fall. many more cute ones to come!
i made these fun little treats for our small group last night :) double stuff oreos, pretzel sticks, a lil peanut butter and some m&ms for the eyes. what's not to love?! happy halloween week!
let me just start off with saying fall is my favorite. growing up in sunny florida, i never got to really experience fall. yes, it got cooler, and yes we carved pumpkins and ate festive foods, but there is just nothing like fall in the south. as i type this, i am semi freaking out that my favorite month is rapidly coming to an end. there is still so much to do!!! i need to go get stuff for our halloween costume and finish working on details for our small group's upcoming halloween dinner. so, i will just get on with this post. today we finally went and picked out our pumpkins. we have been meaning to do this for a while now, but we just have not had the time. we went out to farmer in the dell's pumpkin patch after school and got us two beauties. can't wait to carve them with the hart's on wednesday!
this afternoon we got to babysit our friends' little girl, ryan lily. isn't she just adorable?!
kendall and drew came to visit us!!! the sweet eckhardts came to auburn all the way from houston for the weekend. we had a blast showing them around auburn. this was their first sec vs sec game experience, and the auburn/arkansas game definitely did not disappoint! 
well, two weeks ago we drove to birmingham and headed out west for a wedding in lubbock and we also visited tyler's family in midland. it seems like forever ago, so i will try my best to remember the trip. it took us almost all friday to finally get to midland, so after we landed and ate, we headed to the high school. i got to go to my first texas high school football game and pretend like i was on friday night lights. the stadium was enormous and there was definitely a lot of talent on the football field to be proud of; however, texans should not be proud of these outfits. no one looks good in a silver sparkle cowboy hat. no one.
we even got to go on the sideline and watch the game while papa bruce worked his magic on the players
saturday we drove to lubbock for a wedding {boo red raiders}. tyler got to see everyone that went to his high school {not really, but a ton} which was a lot of fun. i didn't bring the camera into the wedding, so all i have are some scenic pictures. i am in the process of blogging about this past weekend. i am determined to get caught up!!! enjoy the west.
first off, i can't believe it's wednesday. this week has been CRAZY busy, but at least the work week is flying by. monday i babysat some angel babies all night which was fun. the kids rode bikes forever and then i got to do the nightly mom routine of dinner, cleaning the kitchen, baths, reading books, reading some more books, and bedtime. it was a workout but so sweet and precious. here is a picture of the little pumpkin on her big girl bike with juan, the smallest dog ever. i know, adorable. 
we started off that weekend downtown at auburn's downtown block party. martha's trouble was playing and we got to enjoy the small town atmosphere.
saturday was game day in auburn {but without gameday and getting on tv}. we enjoyed tailgating and watching auburn beat south carolina. it was another beautiful sunset on the plains.
but it is so much more than a tv show. when we were dating, tyler and i talked about how one day when we were married, we wanted to watch the entire series of friends. so, when we got engaged i decided to buy it for him as an engagement present. after we got married and moved to auburn, we started the journey with Friends. we loved watching this show episode after episode over the past year and a half and getting to know these characters. im so glad we decided to become fans of a hilarious show that will always remind me of our first year of marriage. 
sweet lindsay grace came to visit! we had a wonderful saturday together, eating lunch at earth fare and walking around downtown. we even tried out the new yogurt place in town - chill. it was amazing! if you haven't been, go. right now. saturday night we had a little pizza party and watched our georgia bulldogs lose...again. at least we were winning during part of the game and i got to get in some cheering. for dinner we had a little bbq chicken pizza...
for breakfast this morning, we had parfaits {greek yogurt, kashi go lean crunch cereal and berries!} and banana chocolate chip pancakes on the porch. it was so lovely outside that we even put on sweatshirts and socks! yay fall. you have arrived.
