Late Night Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we were in Michigan, just Matt and I. Matt slept all day since he had worked 30 hours the day and night before. I spent the day watching Christmas movies, talking to my family, and worrying about making a good dinner. I have never made my own Thanksgiving dinner so this was a big step. I even made my own stuffing...which I was pretty proud of. We ended up eating when Matt woke up around 8pm, but it was still Thanksgiving for us! He was very impressed with the meal and we have plenty of leftovers, which are the best part anyways! It was a nice quiet day and I am very grateful for all of my blessings.

I should have taken a picture of it to prove my wonderful meal, but you will just have to take my word for it.

Leaf clean up

In our city they pick up your leaves if you rake them to the curb. (I know, pretty nice huh?) So, we realized that we have quite the mess of leaves in the backyard that need to be raked out front. Anyways, I got quite excited with the prospect of running through the leaves and playing in them since I have never really done that. Matt was kind enough to rake me a pile to play in.




Ready, set,...go!




So much fun!

Fall leaves

A couple of weeks ago I got to ride the bus a couple of times to work since my car was in the shop. The leaves were so pretty and it made the walk more interesting.



This is a house covered in leaves.

Corn Maze

If you remember last Halloween we went to a haunted forest which was not a good experience for me! Anyways, Matt LOVES Halloween and all of the festivities that go with it so we tried something new and different this year. We went to the nighttime corn maze (why does it always have to be night)? The maze wasn't all that exciting and it was raining but at least we can say that we did something fallish that didn't involve a man chasing me through a haunted forest.




There was a random house flipped upside down in the maze. I guess it was setting the mood?

Carving Pumpkins

This has become a tradition for us the Monday before Halloween. We are lucky that we live in a cooler climate that allows us to carve pumpkins more than a day before Halloween. It is fun for us to pick out our pumpkins, carve them, admire our work, and cook the seeds!




Before the carving



After the carving



All done...Matt's mummy.



Days later after the squirrels enjoyed it.



Amber's ghost after carving...



Post squirrel feeding...mine wasn't as tasty as Matt's!



All lit up! Happy Halloween!

Yates Cider Mill

While my parents were here we went to a cider mill for a real fall experience. It got a little chilly while we were there. Perfect cider weather!



Matt was drooling over these dogs. He is itching for a dog...the bigger the better for him. The St. Bernard weighed 190lbs! Yikes, that is no lap dog!



Cheese!





Feeding the animals. Matt loved this...my mom did too.





Entertainment while we waited in line to get the main event...cider and donuts!





The wheel pumps the water that runs the mill.



Watching the apples get crushed for the cider. It is quite fascinating to watch.

Michigan Temple

This is the Michigan temple. We are very fortunate that it is only about 15 minutes from where we now live.

Sunday

My mom absolutely loved all of the changing leaves, even though we don't have as many as last year at this time. The weather and pretty leaves make it feel very fallish.





The front of our church. The sign proves that it is an LDS church. Ha ha!

Downtown Detroit

We had so much fun downtown. There is so much to see. Matt and I decided that it is good for us to have visitors because we see and do things that we wouldn't have and we are obviously missing out!



These are the GM buildings behind us.



This is the Detroit River. Across the river is Canada.



Matt aka: Rocky?



The revolving doors of the GM building. My dad is suppose to be going around the third door, but apparently he didn't want to play this game.




Looking up in the GM building.




Skipping on the glass walkway.




More downtown.








Lunch time!





This is Michael Jackson's jacket behind us.