Sneak

Hey friends! I have a little preview of our Christmas card photo for you today. Our awesome friend Brittney kindly came over to our house on Sunday afternoon to snap these photos and she even put up with our ridiculous request of having Theo in the shot. Thankfully she loves cats and did her best to wrangle him into a respectable photo. We LOVE the pictures that Brittney got, and we've already warned her that we'll probably be pestering her for more photos in the future haha.

Oh, and here is the humorous one: we tried REALLY hard to get Theo to wear his adorable Santa hat, but he just wasn't having it. It was honestly hard enough just to get him to hold still, so Brittney had the genius idea of photoshopping the hat on. I hope you're laughing as hard as I am :)

Pumpkin Birthday

Saturday night our friends gathered to celebrate Tytus' 27th birthday with some good food, a little World Series baseball watching and best of all... pumpkin carving! It was so great to see Tytus and Jamie, it feels like it's been forever!

Our Kroger purchases for the evening.

Tytus and his Boston Creme Pie

Trick candles! It took him forever to get them all out haha

...and now for the abbreviated version of the pumpkin carving story: I told Keith that I wanted to do something interesting with our pumpkin and not just a standard jack-o-lantern so he searched online for a picture of something he could recreate. He found a super cool cat face that he wanted to do, but like only a terrible wife would do, I doubted his ability to recreate it without a stencil. It was very advanced! Seemed like something that would take a really long time! This doubt fueled an incredible fire in him, and he conquered that cat pumpkin like you wouldn't believe! I couldn't be anything but impressed, and I had to eat all of my previously negative words.

We carved out the bottom instead of the top so it wouldn't do that annoying cave in thing when it sits for awhile. Good idea Jamie!

Removing the guts!

Master carvers

Trent and Jordie's adorably cute jack-o-lantern

The master at work... can you see that determination?

Everyone gathered on the porch to check out our pumpkins all lit up.

Check that out!! this is our cat next to Tytus and Jamie's namesake pumpkin

It's only a little terrifying... but still, he did an AMAZING job!

All in all I learned something new about my husband: he is a pretty talented pumpkin carver and I will NEVER doubt him again ;) and thanks Tytus for having a birthday party so that I could learn this about him! haha

Cake, bombs, etc.

On this edition of:
Things You Never Knew You Could Take On An Airplane 
I bring you... the story of the year old wedding cake.

As it is well known, almost a year ago we got married in South Florida. In the crazed confusion that happened the day we returned from our honeymoon and then needed to catch a plane back to Philadelphia I never even considered what had happened to the rest of our wedding cake that is traditionally eaten on your first anniversary. I later confirmed with my mother that she had saved us some sizable pieces in her freezer and knew there would come a day that we would have to figure out a strange exchange of old frozen cake. Well... yesterday was that day. This was the last time we would be in town before our anniversary and Keith made it known that it would mean a lot to him to have that cake to share on good ole August 14th. And thus begins the creation of "the bomb". Mom had wrapped the cake in all kinds of tin foil prior to freezing, then we surrounded it with multiple ice packs and bubble wrap. Things looked good at this point, up until we wrapped it completely with duct tape. This was obviously the point where things got funny haha

Before we had even started wrapping the cake we questioned whether it would be carry-on acceptable (do ice packs count as "liquid"??) but once it was completed and in my purse we just had a good laugh at the sight of it. I figured it was worth a chance though because she still had another piece safely in the freezer and the least they could do would be to unwrap it, discover it's delicious contents and make me throw it away (I had tears prepared). Hysterically enough... despite having to rerun my bad through the scanner, no one even opened my purse or asked any questions. Win win win! Here's hoping that it still tastes good in 3 weeks haha

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Other things that made it to Nashville with me this trip:

- My wedding dress!!!!! I can't wait to shamelessly try it on after a year of only seeing it in pictures.
- My tap shoes. Weird I know, but I saw them and thought it would be something interesting to pull out of the closet some day haha


Now stay tuned for our Florida vacation recap...