House Tour

For one of my classes I had to walk around the historic houses in Corvallis. It would have been a great assignment if it weren't assigned the week it just poured down rain! I enjoyed it but by the time I got home I literally had water in my shoes and socks and my pants were wet up to my knees...not so much fun. Here are some of the houses that I went to see though!

Little bungalow close to school

A cape cod

I'm not totally sure what this is but I said it was a georgian revival


Tudor revival

Craftsman

Another Tudor Revival

This one actually was built with a music hall inside!

Grilled Cheese

Rich and I were home for lunch at the same time the other day and he made me a grilled cheese sandwich. I don't know how he does it but they come out perfect every time! He's told me how he does it and I have tried, but I still can't seem to make it just right.

So good I had to take a bite first
The perfect gooey cheese and golden brown! Yummy!!

BUGS!!!

Lately there have been these funky looking bugs all over our screen door, and sliding door and the walls outside... I don't really like bugs and when I opened the blinds there were like 10 on the window. They stayed there for a few days then I opened the blinds another day and they had doubled!! bugs seemed to be all over the place and then just 2 days ago, I opened the blinds and counted...there were close to 4o bugs on EVERYTHING outside our porch. They are so gross....

Ugly bugs :( on the door and the outside wall

Cooking Time

Sorry for not writing a new post in such a long time! I have been soooo busy at school. This week I have 2 more papers to write but I needed to take a little break so I though I should update. Let's see...I made this really good stuffed shells thing. I was amazed with how it turned out! I realized after cooking that I was going to add some sauce to the filling but forgot, it still tasted good though!

Here's the shells cooking away!

A week or two ago I got this craving for pancakes! We have no griddle or bisquick (which is the only way I have ever made pancakes) but that didn't stop me. I found a recipe for pancakes from scratch and I used the skillet! I was so happy! We didn't have any syrup though so I had to put blueberries in the pancakes to sweeten them up a bit. They were delicious!!

My blueberry pancakes!

Pumpkin Time

I know it has been a while since I posted but things have been super busy lately. Halloween is this Friday and so we decided it was carving time! I started about a week ago because I was too ambitious...surprise surprise! I wanted to do this whole beach scene and so I started early not thinking about it molding and caving in before Halloween even gets here. So I finally finished yesterday afternoon and well...it doesn't look too good in the light, but in the dark it looks pretty good. Rich did his last night because it was so small. He wanted to do the energizer bunny but then changed his mind when he thought about all the small pieces. So he did Pi...seriously! :) His looks much better in the light...and the dark too because it's so cute and small!

Cleaning it out

My collapsing pumpkin

Rich's perfect pumpkin

Our glowing pumpkins!!

My Husband

I've been tagged by Meg to answer all these questions about my husband...

1. Where did you meet? At Camp Bradley on summer staff in 2002

2. How long did you date? Oh my, 3 years and 5 months before we got engaged

One of the first pictures of us together

3. How long have you been married? Almost 4 months

Our wedding!

4. What does he say that surprises you? Nothings really that much of a surprise, I guess usually if he comes home from work and says, "I brought you something!" Last time it was a bite size Mr. Goodbar.

5. What is your favorite feature of his? My favorite feature would be his eyes because sometimes they are blueish and sometimes they are green and on one eye he has a little brown dot too. I wish my eyes could change color like that.

6. What is your favorite quality of his? I love that Rich is such a hard worker. It makes me feel good to know that he works hard at his job because he wants me to be able to not work if I don't want/need to.

7. Does he have a nickname for you? uh... it's usually Al but last time it was snuffles. I have no idea why but I like it. :)

8. What is his favorite color? Last I heard it was blue.

9. What is his favorite food? I'm not too sure of a favorite, but we seem to be having tacos a lot lately. Pretty much whatever he can put Diablo Sauce on.

10. What is his favorite sport? Wrestling

11. When and where did you first kiss? I have no idea...that was a while ago. I'm thinking his car after dropping me off? I have a horrible memory ha ha.

12. What is your favorite thing to do as a couple? Watch Top Gear. I'm only sort of kidding, we like just spending time outdoors too. Camping is fun!

Getting ready to go backpacking

13. Do you have any children? Nope

14. Does he have a hidden talent? If I knew it wouldn't be much of a hidden talent ;) The ability to do math very quickly in his head...I have to write it out in the air if I don't have a pencil or paper around... Crazy!

15. How old is he? He is 23

16. Who said "I love you" first? I don't remember. I think it was him actually.

17. What is his favorite type of music? It seems to change every few weeks. Lately he just wants to listen to country.

18. What do you most admire about him? He is loving and kind and willing to do anything that I ask him, even go out looking for shoes!

19. Do you think he will read this? I know he won't, unless I ask him to.

At the Butchart gardens in Canada

I would tag someone else at this point but since the only other person with a blog that I know is Meg and well...she tagged me first.

Pumpkin Time!

Rich and I were planning on going to the pumpkin patch this weekend but when we found out that it would cost $10 just to get in and then who knows how much for pumpkins...we decided to go with good ol' Winco! We got pumpkins and I'm so excited. I can't wait to get carving. I'm a little scared that someone is going to come smash them though as soon as we put them out on the porch :( I guess we'll just wait and see.

My pumpkin!

Rich's pumpkin!

Our Pumpkins together!!