The many uses of Squash

 One of my favorite things about the fall is all of the great produce that comes of out the garden.  I have particularly loved the many varieties of squash. But perhaps my favorite squash is when they look like people!

 My mom came up with this tradition when I was little.  My school district would get out for two weeks every fall for the harvest.  She always thought crooked neck squash looked like people and so to keep us occupied she introduced the tradition of decorating them to look like people. And I am happy to say that we have made them every year ever since. This was Jesse's first year of making them.  I think they both turned out rather good. :)

Oh and I decided to cut my hair!

The Cake

Shallie and I just celebrated our 1 year anniversary!! We can't believe it has been one year already. Unfortunately, our wedding cake got purged in the wedding clean up before Shallie and I could save some for the traditional 1 year anniversary eating of the wedding cake. Lucky for us, our friend Carrie who got married two months ago loaned us a piece of her wedding cake. Here we are enjoying our two month old wedding cake. HmmmMmmm...

Look at how much Shallie likes it. It actually wasn't too bad for being two months old. We didn't finish the whole piece, so we decided to freeze what was left for next year.

A year ago today....

we got married.  Wow. Time has flown by. :)  And now a year later, I finally post a few pictures from that day. Enjoy!

Notice the recurring theme? (Answer: I am ridiculously happy in all of these pictures).  And I still am ridiculously happy today.  If the first year of marriage is the hardest, then we are going to be just fine. :)

Our Home

It certainly has been long enough since we moved to have rejoined the blogging world. While we have been up to many exciting adventures, the first thing to make the blog is our new place of residence. The move happened extremely fast and we were unable to find a place to live by the time we had to move. So we crashed at Jesse's parents for a week before we could sign on something. While moving our stuff twice wasn't ideal, it was worth it to find this cute little town home.

 This is only half of the master bedroom.  The other half contains our walk in closet and the empty home of where the dresser that Jesse promises he will refinish before it snows will be.

 This is the second bedroom.  Again this is kinda the catch all room for us, so you only get a limited view.  Jesse's band had a show last night so the instruments are kinda out of place, but at least they all have a place since this room is bigger than the one in our last apartment.

 Forgive my photography skills.  For whatever reason this one is kinda blurry.  This is our front room.  Most of the same things fit in it from before. 

Other side of the front room.  Notice all of my shoes all piled up nicely in their basket? Not always the case. :)

 Again, my photography skills are lacking. But hey better something than nothing, right?  This is the dining area of our kitchen.  This kitchen is so big.  I really enjoy the layout of the cupboards. The green walls are way fun, except they don't match the linoleum or the blinds.  But that is only a minor detail compared to how wonderful this place is.

This is the kitchen area. We have a gas stove which has proven to be a challenge for me, but I am getting used to it.  I do however LOVE having a porcelain sink.  No more yucky stainless steel.  And you can't see it, but the fridge is huge!

So that is jut a quick view of where we live.  Please come visit us whenever you are in the area.  We miss our friends and my family from Utah County, but we are making new friends, hanging with Jesse's parents, and loving being back in the home of the Aggies.