Carving Pumpkins

This was our fun Saturday night activity! Matt is a fabulous pumpkin carver! Mine is the smiley faced one and Matt's is the skull. We cooked up the seeds too and they are quite tasty.

Craig's List

I am a fan! If you know my brother-in-law Brian you know that he is a Craig's List enthusiast, and I am now on board! Matt had gotten a new touch screen cell phone, which neither of us enjoyed much and the store wouldn't take it back so we wanted to try selling it. I posted it this morning on Craig's List and within 15 minutes I had a buyer! Yeah! Plus, I have gotten 8 more emails of interest. What a wonderful invention...this Craig man! Matt better watch out, I may just start selling off all of our stuff. Ha ha!

Fall time in Michigan

For the past couple of weeks we have been experiencing the fun of fall. The leaves are so pretty but seem to fall off all too soon. The beautiful golds, reds, and oranges of the trees are such a sight to see. What a beautiful world that we live in! This morning when Matt left for the hospital at 4:30 the whole car had a layer of ice! Already! Time to get out the scrapers...what a new experience for me.

Chicago

On Friday Matt had an interview in Chicago at the hospital that the show ER is based on. We drove down Thursday night and drove home on Friday night. What a quick trip! Since we were there for such a short time we didn't get to see much, but we want to go back sometime when we can take it all in. This is the view of the Sears Tower in Chicago along with the rest of the city. The elevated train ran right past our hotel. Very cool.

We wanted to eat a yummy Chicago style pizza and this was the place that was recommended.

Matt loved the pizza as you can tell. It was probably the best pizza I have ever had other than my most recent masterpiece at home from our fun cookbook!

Cheese! We filled up on pizza before we headed back home.

Leaving Chicago as we passed through one of many toll roads. We ended up paying $10 in tolls in two days...such pricey roads!

Cider Mill

One thing that I have been looking forward to since we have moved to Michigan is going to the Apple Cider Mill. We went last year when Matt was here doing his audition so I knew it was lots of fun and gets you in the fall mood. So, Matt had the weekend off and we headed on down to Franklin Cider Mill. Us and every other person in Michigan! It was so darn crowded but it was also a very sunny and warm day so it was to be expected.
Matt is standing in front of the mill where you can see them pressing the apples and making the cider. It smells wonderful and since it was a warm day we skipped the hot cider as I had been craving and went for the slush cider. It was SO tasty and then you can't forget the hot doughnuts. This made my day! I am easily pleased when it comes to this.

I am sure that Matt will die when he knows that I posted this, but I wanted to show you what happens when you work 100 plus hours in a 5 day period! He gets a little giddy to have a whole 2 day weekend to spend with me! Yeah!

What's for dinner?

I made this fabulous and healthy pizza for dinner Friday night. Matt loved it and we have had great luck with just about everything we have had from this cookbook. It is a great source if you are looking for tasty and healthy food. Plus, an added bonus is that you don't have dozens of ingredients...which I don't do well with.
Check it out! Matt says that with the help of this cookbook I have become a great cook! What do you think that said about what we have been eating for the last two years?

Finally Working!

Well, I have been unemployed for the last four months and have really enjoyed it for the most part. I was quite the house wife, but all good things need a shake up once in a while so I finally went back to work. Now, this is where it gets good...I signed up with a company to substitute teach and have started getting jobs. One that came my way seemed good, but remember, I have no idea where anything is here other than my remote area. So, I took a job in Pontiac, which is a little on the shady side of things. I drove to the job and realized that I was probably not in the best neighborhood and it was at a high school, which frankly scares me. Anyways, I was fine, but it is definitely making me realize that I am not in my safe zone anymore. There are so many things I have never had the chance to see or experience growing up in my middle class neighborhood in Arizona! Isn't it great that I have the chance to experience more of life now that I am 30? In the future I think I will be a little more cautious, but for the next 2 weeks I will try to be more optimistic as I walk through the metal detectors at this high school. :)