We bought a house!!!

Well, Casey and I will officially be homeowners in a little less than a week. We are very excited. We will have a yard for the dogs, and a place that we can make our own. It is in move in condition, which is wonderful, and in a great neighborhood. It has an unfinished basement, with 4 bedrooms, 2 and a half baths, and a three car garage, so we are definately ready for company!! The only thing I am a little disappointed with is that it doesn't have a dining room. But, I think we will survive. Just wanted to update everyone on the fun part of our life. We will be able to decorate for Christmas and move in to have Thanksgiving dinner in our own home. I hope life is treating everyone else well, and are looking forward to seeing everyone soon. Much love. We will post pictures when everything is finalized.

'Tis the season...for HUNTING?!

Today, I saw something occur on the interstate, and just had to write about the first chance I received. I'm driving home from St. Cloud and I'm minding my own business, jamming to some tunes, when a car decides I am going too slow. I notice them in my rear view mirror, so I switch lanes to allow them to pass. Of course, everyone looks over to see who is passing them, and if you say you don't, you're a liar. When I looked over, I didn't see a car, or people, or even a boat, which is still plausible right now; no, I saw a deer!! I wanted to start crying it. It was just a young male deer, antlers and all, staring back at me. They didn't even give him a chance to grow up. The cruelty!! So cherish the deer you do see now. Because up here, everyone is killing them! Only in Minnesota... (and the rest of the mid-western States).

The First Snow

So this morning, I was able to sleep in for a little bit, which was nice. So, I wake Kodi up, since he was still sleeping next to me after Casey went to work, and opened the window. I was amazed when I looked out my window! This is the picture I saw. It isn't that pretty because it is dirty, but the snow was completely unexpected. We thought it would snow on Saturday, but I guess it snowed last night. I let the dogs run and play in the snow, and at first they were confused, but then they loved it. It still hasn't stopped snowing since it began sometime last night. Hopefully it won't stick just yet, but I hope it gets a little prettier. We have to take our Christmas pictures!! Winter has officially started! :-)

Halloween

So Casey, Jamie, and I put our costumes on, thinking we were going to get a ton of trick-or-treaters. I'm sure you are able to distinguish who we were. (I did get complimented on my costume from an adult and told "I love you" by a little kid.) We waited up all night to get the groups of kids we were expecting, to give them the four bags of candy we had stashed away, and we barely got any! I was so disappointed. It just seems as though kids do not go trick-or-treating as much any more. When I was little, I remember people had to stand outside of their doors because there were so many kids, they couldn't even shut the door. With every person in our neighborhood having three kids, we were expecting to run out of candy, but not this year. Maybe next year....