Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

We bought our pumpkin at Wal-mart for $5.00. We thought that was a lot for a pumpkin that we were just going to cut up. So we decided that we would use all of it that we could... which, of course, meant roasting the seeds. Here are pictures of our seed roasting experience... 

I'm not sure why I'm making this face... I think I was smiling for a long time and Sean was taking forever to take the picture... I must have gotten tired of waiting with a smile. 

Ready to start!

collecting the seeds...

cleaning and soaking the seeds

The finished product, cooling.

They are delicious! 

Jack-o-Lantern

Yesterday we carved our pumpkin. It was a lot of fun! We are going to try roasting the seeds tonight... hopefully they turn out, I love eating pumpkin seeds! I love everything about this time of year!! 

Happy Halloween Everyone!!

 (And, Happy Birthday DAD!)

San Diego

I love fall! 

I love how the colors change, the leaves fall, and the weather gets colder. I love hot chocolate, and going to pumpkin patches, football season, and hay rides. 

It is my favorite time of year!! 

It's October, and in Idaho all of these things are starting to happen... I have been kinda bummed lately because we haven't seen any of these signs of fall that I love so much here in California (it's currently 80 degrees and sunny). It's hard being so far away from my family, and missing out on my favorite season events all at the same time. 

However... 

when we walk outside and see the city lights, and smell the ocean that just so happens to be our backyard,

I am reminded that we live in a great place and it is hard to complain when you get to see things like this 

every single day...

Better than jumping in leave piles and wearing mittens and jackets??

  I probably wouldn't give those things up. 

But we are so blessed. San Diego isn't that bad after all....

Bedroom Update

We found some lamps at IKEA. I love them. And we finally got around to painting the dresser too, it is a million times better now. 

This is when we were sanding it. The before color...

 Finished. It looks lighter in the picture, but you get the idea.

Public Transportation and Art Festivals

On Saturday we went to an art and music festival. Sean wanted to take the train so we could save the headache and money on finding downtown parking. I haven't ever taken public transportation before (yeah, yeah I'm from a small town ok!) So I was really excited! We took 3 different trains to get there it was fun! I was kinda scared of all the weird people that use the train here though, I held on to Sean the entire time and when we were at stations I was never more than 2 inches away from him! He thought that was funny... I didn't. I would NEVER ride it without him! :) The art festival was cool, as cool as an art festival can be. It was neat to see all of the artwork, some of it was really good, it was all REALLY expensive, of course.

Chinese food Celebration

We have been married for 10 months already! And one year ago today Sean proposed to me! So he took me out tonight for dinner. We went to a Chinese restaurant that one of Sean's co-workers recommended. He was feeling really hungry and ordered the dinner for 4 people, plus an extra side of chow mein! Which was A LOT! We barely made a dent in all the food. There were bigger parties of people all around us with less food... our waitress probably thought we were completely crazy. We had 5 take out boxes stuffed full, a chinese carton of fried rice, and two bowls of soup to go, that we took home with us! It was really funny! The food was delicious though, which is good because we will be eating it for a very, very long time!!

Some food was already gone by the time I took a picture, and the soup isn't even in the picture either!

Left-overs! 

Bedroom Furniture

We got some matching bedroom furniture today! Our room is finally starting to not look like a bachelor pad! We found this used bedroom set for really cheap the night stands hadn't ever been put together so they were new. We got the bed frame and both night stands all for the price of one. I wish I had a before picture too. The night stands we had before were ones we had found on sidewalks with free signs on them they were not matching at all and the drawers on one of them didn't slide so it was always a production to get anything in or out of them! and our bed was just on a metal frame which we didn't mind too much. This set probably isn't going to be what we will have forever but it is perfect for us right now. 

*Next project is to paint our dresser to match and find some lamps and curtains for free or cheap! We will keep you updated...

Bowling

On Saturday we went bowling with our friends the Niles (Jared and Becky) and we went out to get pizza afterward. We didn't remember to take pictures (that is happening a lot lately!) But I had to tell about it on here because I beat Sean both games. And I would just like to add that every time we have gone bowling since we have known each other he has NEVER gotten a higher score than me.