Outage

This week my hubby started his 7/10 hour days for the next 5 weeks of work. Poor thing will ask me every few days what is today again? He gets confused working everyday, I don't blame him I would too. I'm so excited my sister-in-law has a name picked out for the new wheeler baby. Elijah Gene Wheeler, I have to get started on his special present Aunt Katie is making for him. I have a lot of stuff to keep me busy this next month or so. Plus I'm having Christmas at our house this year, I have to plan for that. It is going to be fun with both families getting together. We are going to try to incorporate both my family, and Stephens families traditions. I know one tradition that we are going to keep, it is my favorite. My family opens all the presents one at a time youngest to oldest, or oldest to youngest just to see what everyone has. I'm not sure what Stephens favorite family tradition is? When we did Christmas last year with his family it seem to be chaos everywhere, but fun chaos. We will see what happens.

Pumpkin carving

Saturday when we got back from the corn maze, we went to carving our pumpkins. Stephen and I sat in complete silence for almost 45 min with the occasional sighing, because it was not the way we wanted the pumpkins to look. Pumpkins are nasty inside with all that stringy stuff. They are really hard to get cleaned out. We were going to have a competition to see whose was the best, but since there are only two of us we decided that both were a master piece.

Corn maze

We had a little get away this past weekend before, Stephen started his outage at work. We stayed at the Embassy Suites down town Friday night. We got to just relax with each other and, with out cell phones, we turned those things off. Saturday we got up to head out to a corn maze it was so much fun to get lost in corn. We also got to play with a corn shooter it was a loud thing. Stephen said he was going to make one for us. haha He could if he wanted to, he is very crafty like that. After we left the corn maze we went looking for a pumpkin patch down the road that I had seen on our way there. Apparently we passed it up, we never found it, so we just went to wal-mart to get one.

Our wonderful date night.

I just love our date nights. Its a lot of fun to just go out with each other. Last night we went to chillies for dinner we enjoyed our south western spring rolls appetizer, oh they make a awesome cajun chicken pasta. After we left Chillies we went and seen the new movie

Eagle Eye. It was so good, the movie just kept you on the edge of you seat. There is only very few curse words through out which is a plus, if you don't care for that kind of stuff. I have a few prayer request. Stephen is going to be working Seven, ten hour days for the next 4-6 weeks. He is on days for right now which is good, at least he will be home when I'm home. Maybe, I will get some projects done that I have been putting off for a little while. Oh, also that I find a new job real soon. I have a job, the hours are good, it is just that I have a boss who is not such a nice person. I have never heard anything positive come out of his mouth about his family, work or, other people. It just brings you down.

Cooking

Last night me and my hubby decided that we wanted to make kung pao scallops.

(P.F. Chang Style) We thought it would be cheaper to make them at home, than going to the restaurant. Well it's not, it cost close to 30 dollars to make the silly things, and it didn't taste as good as it would if we were in the restaurant. We also made it with chicken, it was much better with the texture and everything.

I tell you what sitting on our back deck is so pretty, you can capture some pretty amazing sunsets. It had been raining most of the day Wednesday, it was just gloomy. The sky finally cleared off in the afternoon and, it was beautiful for the rest of the day. Right before the sun went down a storm was moving in it was very pretty. I felt a need to take a picture of it.

God is pretty amazing. This would be a great idea for a painted picture.

Fiddlers

This weekend was full of good times. I was so happy when Amanda came down to spend the whole entire weekend with us. Friday night was the fiddlers convention. This is where people all over the south come each year to compete in there choice of Banjo, Mandolin, Dobro, Guitar, Old time singing, and my personal favorite buck dancing. People from ages 3 to 90 buck dance. Like this guy who is wearing the silly socks he is 84 and he still can buck dance with the best. There are also lots and lots of arts and crafts to choose from. Saturday was my Mary Kay make-up party that was so much fun. We girls all got made up and tried different kinds of products to make you feel beautiful in side, and out. Not to mention all the make-up we got to play in. Mrs. Kay did a wonderful job with the party.