Happy Halloween!

I started teaching piano lessons at the beginning of the school year. So to celebrate Halloween with my students, I had them each either learn a fun, spooky Halloween song or write their own song. Then when they came to their lessons we had some Halloween treats (witches hats and broomsticks) and played their spooky Halloween songs! It was a fun week of lessons! We all had a good time!

Every year for Halloween, there are a few movies that I just need to watch to make it complete! Hocus Pocus, of course! How can you not?! :) Such a good childhood movie! Then there are the Halloweentown Disney Channel movies! haha!! Yes, I still watch them, and yes I still love them and always will! 

So, if you can believe it, one of my friends here shares the same love for these movies as I do! So we got together with her little family and watched Hocus Pocus while we carved pumpkins and ate more Halloween treats! :)

Here are Nathan and I's pumpkins!

My pumpkin

Nathan's pumpkin

For Nathan's work, his teams theme was Duck Dynasty. So Nathan dressed up as Willie Robertson!

One of my favorite dinners to do for Halloween is Mummy Dogs! No matter how many years I do them, I still think they are cool! Haha!!

Yay for Halloween Festivities! Now time for Thanksgiving and Christmas.... especially CHRISTMAS MUSIC!!:)

One Year Down... Eternity To Go!

I can't believe one year ago, I married my best friend and we started our happily ever after together! 

 

 We have had such a fun and adventure filled year together! In one year we have traveled to Washington twice, Boise Idaho, Utah (a number of times), Atlanta Georgia (I went there twice), Vermillion South Dakota, drove through Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. We celebrated 'our firsts' major holidays and birthdays together. Nathan graduated from college and got his first 'real' job out of college. And we packed up all our stuff and moved to Michigan! It has been a busy one, but oh so fun! I have loved every minute of it!

So since our anniversary was on Sunday this year, we decided to really celebrate it on Saturday so we could go out and do things! Saturday morning, Nathan got up super early, way before I was awake, and came home with 4 bouquets of flowers! One bouquet he picked and the other three he got at a store. I love ALL of my flowers, so fun to have so many! The big vase of flowers consists of three bouquets and then there are the roses!! OH and he also got me CHOCOLATE!! (my favorite candy bars!)

  This bouquet was from a couple of my piano students mom! We had to move their lessons to Saturday morning that week... when she came to pick them up she had gotten me flowers for our anniversary! So sweet!

We spent the rest of the day just having fun and being together! Nathan has been working really long hours with his new job lately, so during the week we don't get to spend a lot of time together, so it was nice to have a whole day to just play around and be with each other! 

For most of the afternoon we went to this cute little town called Plymouth. We walked around the square and looked at all the fun scarecrows they had set up, and also walked around looking at all the different shops around the town. While doing that we found a frozen yogurt shop... FINALLY!! I have been missing my frozen yogurt... I used to eat A LOT of frozen yogurt back in Idaho, and we hadn't found a good shop since we moved here. But we found one and it was SO delicious! :) I was a very happy girl!

After Plymouth, we went back to our apartment complex and went down to this little pond that is behind our place. We found it about a month ago and ever since then Nathan has been wanting to go back and catch some of craw dads he saw in there. So in the pond he went! He was having so much fun catching them!  We didn't keep any of them... after he caught about 6 he decided to put them all back. He now wants to go back with a craw dad catcher and get a lot more! haha!

We then ordered our favorite pizza for dinner and rented a movie and had a stay-in date night! It was such a wonderful day and I just loved being able to spend it all with my hubby!! 

 Happy one year anniversary to US! :)

 

Toledo Zoo!

 Nathan and I have been wanting to go to the Toledo Zoo ever since we moved here, and the other weekend we were like "lets go, why not!" So we invited some friends who just moved out here from BYUI as well to come along and Saturday morning we were off to Toledo, Ohio! It is only an hour drive each way, so not too bad, but definitely makes it for a long day! 

So the first thing we did when we got to Toledo was find a Chick-fil-a! (The closet one to us in Michigan is actually in Toledo) We have missed it!! haha!! So we stopped there and got some yummy lunch before heading to the Zoo. 

The Zoo was SO much fun that day! We all had such a great time! We saw some fun animals, and most of them were all pretty active, which made it way fun to watch! They have 3 polar bears, the mama and two cubs, and they all were playing and wrestling with each other. I had never seen polar bears so active before. It was so fun and entertaining! 

Mama bear!

The two cubs playing around!

This cub started chasing a bird! So funny!

The Orangutan's were fun to watch too, they were having fun showing off all of their cool tricks to us. 

We got to see two hippos walk and swim around, we saw two Rhinos too! Those things are huge!! Both Nathan and I had never seen Rhinos in person before, so that was definitely very exciting! And the Zoo has a baby elephant which was fun to see!

And OF COURSE, we had to see the penguins!! So so cute!! :)

So we found out that Siegfried and Roy loaned the Zoo 3 male White Lions from their litter of 4 cubs.  The other one, the female, is at the Cincinnati Zoo where they were all born. I guess one of the males died in surgery this summer, so we only saw the 2 males. But wow, they are so pretty! Apparently I didn't get any pictures of them..:( so I found these pictures on the internet.

One of the Tigers we saw was super active! He was running all around and climbing up and down the rocks! And he started roaring towards the end, which was so cool! You could hear the Lions roaring back to him too! When we were getting ready to leave the zoo that evening, we could hear all the different animals going off and making noises, so fun!! Definitely the most animal activity I have ever seen or heard in one Zoo trip! 

So long Toledo Zoo, we had a great time and will definitely be back!! :)