Halloween!

This year we got invited to our friends' Halloween party. There was a costume contest and we were supposed to bring a "spooktacular" dish to share. I made a spider web chip dip.

 

 

If you are familiar with our engagement story, you know that Mario and Luigi are kind of special to us! (If not, you can find it HERE). We spent all day before the party creating our costumes. Here is how they turned out!

 

By the way, we won the costume contest!! :)

 

We had a lot of fun carving our pumpkins together, and I was happy with how they turned out!

It's not Halloween without roasted seeds! (This was before we cleaned them, though!)

Lucas carved the witch and I carved the Tinker Bell

 

Lucas added bats to the back

 

 

 

 



Anniversary

For our Anniversary I was told to take Monday and Tuesday off of work. I had no idea what was planned, but did as I was told. Monday morning we slept in late, then went and had Noodles & Company for lunch (which I have been craving for like 2 months now!) We were just being casual and Lucas was playing it off that he didn't really have anything planned and would just play it by ear. On our way home I commented on how beautiful the leaves still were. Little did I know, this played perfectly into his plan. A couple hours later we were just relaxing and watching some TV when Lucas asked if I wanted to get my camera and go on a drive since the leaves were still pretty. So we left and started driving toward the mountains. Our drive took us to Black Hawk. I had gone to the Ameristar with Lucas over the summer to do a glass job, and while we were there we put a dollar in a slot machine and had a little fun.

 

So as were pulled up to the Ameristar he asked if I wanted to go in and put a couple of dollars in for something to do (we aren't gamblers, but we figured it was the cost of some entertainment). As I was sitting at a slot machine Lucas had to go to the bathroom. He came back asking if I was ready to go and said a guy told him we had to check out the view from the 28th floor. We rode the elevator up and Lucas pulled out a room key. (Ya right, going to the bathroom was really checking in!) We walked into the most amazing hotel suite! (Lucas got a deal since he does glass for the hotel!) He even had secretly packed an over-night bag for the 2 of us, swimsuits included! We had fun swimming, relaxing in the hot tub, and just being together!

Jet tub in our room with a view of the mountains!

Sitting area



Eating area

Yes, there was even a TV in the bathroom



This bathroom was huge! It was the size of a bedroom.

A 2 sided fireplace with a big screen
TV on each side

 what kind of hotel room has it's own "guest" powder room?

 

We had sparkling apple cider brought to the room to celebrate and we ate the top of our wedding cake, (I wonder where that tradition started??) which actually still tasted pretty good!

 

 

It was a wonderful anniversary and I am so blessed to be married to such an amazing man!