Our Engagement Pics

So we got in the mail over the weekend our engagement pictures. Story Photography of Lexington took the shots and they did a great job! Daniel and Stacy Arroyo were great and below is their work! I have ordered some prints for Christmas and also made a book at Snapfish to put out at the wedding near our guest book....look how cute Lucy is too!

Halloween House from the Today's show

So here in Lexington was one of the three top houses for Halloween decorations. It was actually really close to the house so some co-workers and I hunted it down. Nathan and I tried to find it the night before but without any luck so Matt who works with me lives right near it and knew where it was so a few work folks went out to check out what all the fuss was about. I do have to admit it was hysterical and ridiculous. You will see for yourself!

Also the morning before Halloween I woke up to our first frost! Already! Here are pics from our backyard.....

Trick or Treat!

So it is almost Halloween....Lucy the Pooper tried on her costume this weekend and it just barely fits, she has gotten bigger since last year I have discovered since none of her sweaters or jackets fit anymore! Here she is less than excited to be having her picture taken in her costume. I had to bribe her with treats to do it!

Also treats came early for Nathan this year and he got his Christmas/Wedding/Halloween/Thanksgiving/Valentines/Any other Holiday imaginable present in season tickets to UK Basketball....I entered a drawing to be able to purchase them through UK and won! After a lifetime of pineing for these he finally has them.....so he was a much happier trick or treater than Lucy! I will go to the Florida game but that's about it....GO GATORS!!

Lucy likes to lick ice cream!

I gave Lucy a few licks of my ice cream last night (Nathan and I needed something sweet and I was happy to oblige since I had just finished my exam). She was so excited and hyper she stood on her back legs like a human for the longest time. We had to take pictures....so here is Lucy the two legged standing licker! We also thought she looked like T-Rex in that one picture! So maybe she needs to be Lucy the Dinosaur?

Fodder shock's in Lexington!

So this weekend I learned a very Kentucky craft! How to make a Fodder shock! So here are the fruits of my labor! (With a lot of help from Moomoo!) We drove them home in Nathan's truck which was loaded down the the Beverly Hillybilly's (Nathan even sang the song for a few miles!) We had four of these in the truck and then a coffee table, end table, and almost all of our winter clothes. I so wished I had thought to take a picture of the truck. So once we got home and got everything unloaded we showered and headed out to Kroger and I picked up some ribbon at the craft store so I could finish my little project. I think they came out great! Also I took a picture of our first new plants at the Lexington house, Daisies! I put them where the trash cans used to be kept so there was no grass growing there anyways. So this weekend coming up I have to work and then my midterm exam is Monday night so no fun for me this weekend....:(!
So Happy Fall to All!

Fall is here!

So after moving from Florida there are a few things that KY can trump over life in Florida...one of which is Fall! We have some great seasons here and growing up in Florida you never experience them, you have warm, hot, hotter, summer, less hot, a few days of cool and then back to warm. That is Florida seasons in a nutshell...so when I moved here I learned about seasons and foddershocks, and pumpkin patches and which apples make the best cobbler....so this weekend I was sick of being sick and we went to Boyd's Orchard where you can pick your own pumpkin and your own apples! Jesse went with Nathan and I on our adventure.....


We got Jonathan apples and I think it was Gala apples and I made some yummy apple cobbler the next day for a BBQ at Jesse's....
It was great....and a new recipie that used Splenda and oats and other less dangerous things! No one even noticed! The apples were really sweet and fresh so I think that made it....That evening we went to the Pub for dinner and hung out with Jesse and by then I was super tired after my first day back in real life after being sick.

So I slept in Saturday and later that afternoon Matt came down to Lexington and we went to the UK vs WKU game at Commonwealth stadium. While I did attend a UK game I did wear my Gator shirt and brought my Gator blanket to stay warm with once the sun went down....So I am not a traitor! :) I enjoyed the fireworks that went off after every touchdown and the bands were fun to watch....Kim and Rick met up with us to tailgate a bit before hand and I made pulled pork and potato skins to munch on by the car....It was fun to watch the undergrads and their antics as well....realizing that just a few years ago that was us....Good grief we were retarded!

North Carolina got lost but Florida made it!

So I went to see McDuff about a month ago and took all kinds of fun pictures of our adventures and I got home to upload them and my stupid memory card had some error and it erased them all! So I guess I will have to just go back to see her again sometime soon! Getting schedules together to plan stuff is quite a challenge but worth all the effort and time. It is so good to have just a relaxing weekend of hanging out with my girlfriends. It makes me realize that I gave up quite a bit to stay in KY. With all of my family and friends in Florida it is always hard to leave behind.

So this past weekend I went to Florida to visit Megan, Cristi and Jenny! Jenny flew down from DC earlier in the week and hung out with her rents and then she drove up to Orlando to meet us to celebrate Cristi's birthday and hunt around for bridesmaids dresses for the wedding. It was great to have my friends back and to stay up late and catch up on all the things we have missed out on by living so far away. Now that I have normal hours of work and able to schedule things I am hoping we can have more frequent visits. The wedding is also going to help with that too!

So here are some pictures from the weekend shenanigans and our fun. We even got to see the Peabody ducks! :) QUACK QUACK!! McDuff would have loved it!

Cheers to all!!

Love Jules