Happy Halloween 2015 (Number 4)



Halloween has come and gone this year and I feel I took full advantage of it. Going back to my last post about Fall I recently took this picture of our street and have to say I'm loving it still:

 

Can you just smell it and hear the crunch?

We also got our pumpkins done last Saturday. I think they turned out cute, can you guess who did which?

I actually did the boogie man
Larry's is the kitty

My manager, Erin, found Halloween Bingo and so on Wednesday we had a Custom Funding Pot Luck while we played (it was mostly chips and dips but it was beyond delicious and filling!

I also went to my first Paint Nite with Erin and Bash Thursday night. I think the paintings turned out pretty well considering it was my first time:

I'll admit my cat looks a bit zombie-fied, but I still had a lot of fun with it. I definitely want to do more of them.

On Friday we got to celebrate Halloween at work and get all dressed up. There was clearly a theme with most of us this year:



I have NEVER been more comfy at work!

They did the costume contest at work, which was so much fun to watch (I wish I had a group picture of what my whole team did). We also had kids come in to play games. I thought we'd get to pass out candy, but when I went down to do that they were just playing the games and it felt awkward. Needless to say I have quite a bit of candy leftover.

 

Saturday Cass had her party. During the day I watched the "fun" Halloween movies like It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Hocus Pocus, and Ghostbusters. I decided since Larry was going to be the Reno 911 cop I should recycle my cop costume to kind of match him, so I got to dress up a couple times this year (woo-hoo!)



 

 Lucky for us Daylight Savings time hit on Sunday, but we didn't even leave her house until about 1 am after the time change so we really didn't get to use it for sleep. Larry woke me up at 7 to ask how it ended (he was a bit intoxicated the last couple hours) and then he fell back asleep while I started on my usual Sunday chores (laundry and the grocery list). Lucky for him the cats decided to join him in the great nap coma of 2015 (as I'm affectionately calling it):

I'm sad that Halloween is over with, but I'm even more happy about the fact that it's time to be excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Mom and Will are coming out on the 19th and I'm so excited to see them. We're going to be doing our own Thanksgiving at our house this year so I'm really glad we practiced last year. You better believe I'll be listening to Christmas music off and on until Thanksgiving (and then it will be full time!).

Happy Holidays everyone!!

The Beginning of Fall and Eleven Years

Oh boy am I excited to say it's starting to look more and more like Fall around here. I've been looking forward to the holiday time (which I'm counting as starting in September because that's when I start watching my scary movies) since around February!

So far this season I went to go see Thriller with Stace and some of her friends/family members for her birthday and then we went to pick our Pumpkins and do a corn maze with Marie and Jim. It was a great Saturday!

At work we've decided to decorate our cabinets the way people do their front doors

Aren't they the cutest?

Larry and I have already ordered our costumes. He's going to be a cop from Reno 911 and I've decided to go the comfy route and wear a cat onesie (not like a child onesie, like those footie pajamas). I'm so excited to show them off. Cassie is having a Halloween party this year and since we hardly get any kids in our neighborhood I thought it would be a fun way to celebrate - especially with it being a Saturday this year.

Last night Larry and I celebrated our 11th anniversary. I can't believe it's been that long already, but it hasn't really felt that long either.

I have to say if it's a competition, Larry wins the anniversary gift giving! He got me a "punk" outfit and a "princess" outfit. It was so sweet. I told him we're going to have to go to a ballet or something this year so that I can wear the dress

You can't tell in the picture but the "punk" one on the left is the tank top, jeans, a bracelet, a necklace, and some black ankle boots (the necklace is just like one I used to wear when we were first dating that was his). The "princess" one on the right is a dress (with a decorated neck line), a four leaf clover lucky charm necklace, a pretty silver bracelet, and some white shiny flats (he said the necklace is because I'm his lucky charm). If you don't just love that then you have problems! Haha

He also took me out to the Spaghetti Factory because I couldn't stop talking about how yummy their tortellini is and I didn't get to finish it the last time we went. I definitely got spoiled this year. I did end up surprising him by putting his gifts in his car (a game, a book, a movie, and a shirt he wanted). I tried to act like I didn't get him anything, but he didn't even notice until we got to his car to go to dinner...go figure.

Happy Fall everyone...only 15 more days until Halloween now. Hope you're having as much fun with it as I am!

Disneyland 2015

I'm officially a believer that Disneyland really is one of the happiest places and most magical! I can't believe how much I did remember and how much I forgot from when I was a kid. Granted a lot of it is really similar to Disney World, which we got to do a couple years ago, but still. The only thing I went in remembering is loving the Roger Rabbit and Star Tours ride. I hadn't even been there when California Adventures was a thing, but I still had fun. So going this year was beyond awesome, eating the treats was one of the best things, and having a hotel within walking distance was the best ever.

Flying to California was different for us, but I'm just glad we weren't one of the flights that got seriously delayed



Tired, but so ready to be there.

Can I just rave about how awesomely close to Disneyland our hotel was? We could see Tower of Terror and the fireworks from our window.

The plan was to hit Disneyland first, then California Adventures, and then do any second rides on the third day (or any that we missed). We hit a bunch of rides at Disneyland (we were really able to squeeze in more than I thought was possible) and then did a few over in California Adventures (including Tower of Terror and Toy Story Mania)

 

I loved how it looked like it was sparkling

It was almost as great as I remember it :)

 

Day two in California Adventures was crazy! I mean I was told to hurry and get a fast pass for the Cars ride because the line is always insane. Well the line for the fast pass in the morning was insane so we decided to just go wait in line to ride the ride. I had figured out at this point that we should be able to hit up Universal Studios on Monday, but I wanted to ride all my favorite rides at least twice.  Even in the extreme heat and with our daily break in the afternoon we were still able to get all of the California Adventures in twice and a couple of the Disneyland ones again (I think I can confidently say at this point Tower of Terror is the best ride, but Haunted Mansion is the best at Disneyland)

Every time we rode this ride Larry looked extremely
Happy in the pictures. I loved it haha

 

 

From the big Ferris wheel

I'm such a fan of Little Mermaid

So glad she found happiness :)

I said extreme heat right?

 

California Screamin pic

Ending the day with ice cream
And root beer float is the best

The last day was, apart from the awful California Traffic, awesome and busy! We had ridden all the rides we liked in  Disneyland at least twice (three times on Tower of Terror at this point) and so we decided a trip to Universal  Studios is a must! Unfortunately they replaced the Backdraft "ride" that Larry loved and I wanted to see with the Transformers Ride, but it was still fun. In fact I think I liked the U.S. rides a bit better than the D.L. rides because I like the motion simulator type rides. We got done with those in time to get back to the hotel and Larry could get some school work done (yay for the font of the line pass we got!). I gave him an hour and then decided to hit up Disneyland for just a couple more rides. He joined me later, and we rode a few together, just depending on the line. It was a great last day packed with tons of fun!

I just had to get some ears

The start of Hogwarts
Coming 2016!!

Because we needed ice cream wherever we went

 

So overall it was an amazing trip. I felt at the time that I got enough from it, but now I'm kind of wanting to go back haha. Maybe next year. Although look at the awesome souvenir I got this time:

Best ever right?

And all the treats (in addition to the ice cream):

It was the best, I can't wait till we have kids and can go though....maybe ;)

Why my family is the best

So there are little moments that happen with my family that just remind me how lucky I am. I'll start with last night. Larry was playing Sims and he had created a character for me and a character for him that were living together. We'd always joke about what our characters were doing and how to get them to love each other. Well Larry asked if he should make them have a baby or not and since I had never seen a Sims family with a baby I said go for it. Well they ended up having a baby boy and I kept asking Larry what he was going to name it and he kept saying he didn't know and wouldn't really say anything while I was watching him over the shoulder. So I walked away to do stuff around the house and come back to this picture:

That's a baby naming site on the left there.
How adorable right?

I just love catching him in these moments, especially when he has no idea :)

Then today just happened to be grandparent's day, and I have the perfect example of how great my grandma is:

You guys, I can't even tell you how funny my grandma is and due it justice. She's hilarious when she wants to be. I secretly think I got a bit of my sense of humor from her. She's pretty awesome and this is just a great example of it.

So yeah, my family is pretty much the best...you should be a little jealous haha.

Why This Wednesday Rocked!

So I've thought not very hard and not very long about this, but I decided I HAVE to go to Disneyland this year! I was listening to my Disney Pandora station and I've heard so many people talk about the 60th Anniversary special going on now (which is diamonds from what I hear haha) and it just clicked that I really, really wanted to go and it's been so long since I've been to Disneyland and I didn't want to wait forever so I sent Larry a text letting him know and this is how the conversation went:

Me (1:50 PM): I REALLY want to go to Disneyland!
Him (1:50 PM): I bet you do lol
Me (1:51 PM): Like for real though...I want to take a three day weekend and go out there
Him (1:52 PM): Why
Me (1:56 PM): Because it's their 60th anniversary right now and it only goes till May and I haven't been since I was a kid and I want to see it before we have to wait 5 years or more! Lol
Him (2:16 PM...this is why I included the time): Dork lol
Me: (2:17 PM): I'm already pricing everything now lol

So it was pretty much decided then. Both of our PTO hours at work made it so we could actually take a 4 day weekend. We're going to fly out on Friday night, spend Saturday, Sunday, and Monday in the park, and then fly back early Tuesday. I'm so pumped. Larry feels that Universal Studios would've been a better choice so I told him if there's time we can hit that up, but I'm not going to include it in the plans just in case. I bought the plane tickets the day I thought of this, then got the hotel tickets once our work okay'd the time off requests, I got the rental car earlier this week, and then today I bought the Photo Pass Plus (woo hoo for having real pictures of the two of us on a vacation !!). All that's left is food and souvenirs now so we're good to go.

 

 

I've been talking non-stop with both my bosses about rides we HAVE to hit and what treats to get and all the tips and tricks. I want to learn more, but I still can't wait to go :) It will be our last vacation of the year since I had to use up my time off by October (it gets too busy to take any time off after that) so it'll be a good way to celebrate before we both get into our busy seasons at work.

Oh yeah, other reasons today was really great:

• I became a meme, sort of, in our lunch email today:

I freaking LOVE Great Harvest!!

• I got to meet with both bosses for my review and 1:1s and I got to give ideas on how to improve some things and they were very well received. My review went better then I expected (I always expect the worst for some reason). Plus I got to talk to them both about cats, Friends, and/or Disney today haha.
• I played basketball and won some peanut butter M&Ms (if I had to choose a favorite candy, this would definitely be it!!).

It was a great Wednesday today, but I'm still ready for the weekend haha.