we're alive!

You wouldn't know it by following our blog, but Nathan and I are actually still alive! I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted! I need to stop making promises about catching up and just be straight with y'all- I would love to post every special moment of our lives on here and keep you up to date but with our schedules I just don't see that as being realistic! We're busy people. If our full time jobs weren't enough, our pottery biz has been keeping us on our toes, for sure.

Since my last post, we've done over 250 large carved pumpkins, almost 300 small carved pumpkins, more than 60 turkeys, footballs, and snowmen- plus we added a reindeer and Santa! And that's just our carved items! Each carved piece- including pouring, carving, and cleaning takes about 30-45 minutes- so as you can see- THAT'S why I haven't had much time to blog.

So let's see if I can briefly get you caught up on the things that have happened in our life- besides pottery in the last 3 months.

September

Dave and I both had a birthday! I am now a quarter of a century and Dave is 2 (no longer a puppy!) Nathan got me beautiful flowers that were delivered to my office. He's such a sweetie!

The sun started coming up later and going down earlier which has thrown off my internal clock.

I went to California with my aunties to see the Tim Burton exhibit. It was amazing and awesome and a welcomed break from work. It was so much fun having a girls weekend, that I decided to plan another one in February with my sister!

October

Nathan and I went to a Diamondbacks play off game. We had fantastic seats and it was one of the most incredible starts to a game I have ever seen. We are talking about getting a small season ticket package for next year.

I got a kidney stone! My first one since Nathan and I got married. 4 mm! It was the first one that I was able to catch and actually see for myself. It was nasty looking little thing- super jagged- no wonder it hurt so bad! The experience made us grateful for the awesome insurance Nathan gets through his work.

My best friend, Kassi, got engaged! She's getting married on leap day next year. So since I got this news I have been assisting in wedding planning and assembling an AMAZING bachelorette party in her honor.

I had the opportunity to participate in this mind blowing thing called the Landmark Forum. There will a separate post about this. I don't have time to explain it all right now, but it absolutely changed my life. Seriously.

Also in October, I signed up for and started receiving all kinds of catalogs. I know that this is unimportant and insignificant to you- but I am really excited about it. Maybe it's just getting things in the mail with my name on it-I dunno- but I just like looking at all the things!!!

We didn't do anything super awesome for Halloween- we passed out good candy (candy bars!) and when it was gone we turned off the porch light and snuggled up in bed and watched a movie.

November

Nathan had a birthday! We went out that evening with the whole gang to Red Robin and then went bowling. Nathan did pretty well- I was horrible! It was a good time though- even though I was super tired.

We participated in a holiday boutique- which kept me busy painting all month. Unfortunately we didn't sell much at the boutique which made my painting efforts seem wasted. But everything turned out cute nonetheless. AND Nathan got an iPhone so we can run credit cards. Mostly the iPhone is great for playing words with friends and watching netflix though.

I started trying out doing Bikram Yoga in the morning. Not gonna lie- getting up at 5:00am to make the 6:00 class is difficult and I haven't made it as often as I'd like. I am recommitting myself to going though!

A drugged out crazy person came into my office one evening when I was there alone and freaked me the heck out. I had to call 911... I think it's the only time I have ever had to. It was crazy! He came in thinking someone was trying to kill him. He tired to hide behind our copy machine and wound up leaving his shoes behind. (It's a much longer story, but that's the quick version!)

We spent Thanksgiving morning on Tempe Town Lake with my parents and my sister and her little family. It was way fun and I vote for that to be a Thanksgiving tradition!! Then later I made my first batch of homemade potatoes from scratch and we had dinner at Nathan's parents house. My parents got to come too- so that was pretty cool to get to spend the holiday with both sides at the same place!

Also on Thanksgiving we found out that we are going to get another niece or nephew! Yup, Marvin & Sarah are expecting their second little one- which of course, raised the question "When are you two going to have one?" My answer to one and all "Eventually." Obviously not right now. It is in the plans though....eventually!

Black Friday was awesome. I got to shop with almost every member of my family at some point during the day. I am super psyched about the gifts I got for Nathan. I am so excited that we aren't completely poor this year and that I was able to get him something good that he will enjoy!

So there you have it! Those are all the things that I would have blogged about, had I had time to blog! I will try to better now that things have slowed down a bit. Maybe I will even try blogging from the iPhone. I am really excited that even when I forget my camera that Nathan will always have a good one in his pocket! Hopefully having a camera handy will result in more pictures which result in more blogging! Love you all! Happy Holidays!