Gold and Green Ball

Our church has an annual dance for adult couples called the "Gold and Green Ball". This year the ball was on November 15, 2008, and we decided to go out to dinner with some friends of ours before hand - to make it a complete date night.

Here is a picture of everyone at dinner. Steph and Brett, Kim and Ben, and Joel and I went to Rock City Grill for dinner. We all always have such a great time together, and really enjoy each others company.

(The girls...at the dance.)

Honestly...church dances are not always tons of fun, and they can be pretty interesting as well. But we all had a great time together, and made the event a great one. I am so grateful for the group of friends that we have here in Spokane, and the memories that we make together.

Lazy Fridays...

I get bored on Fridays from time-to-time. The job that I have right now allows me to make my own schedule, so I decided that for the rest of 2008, I would work Monday-Thursday and have Fridays off. I did this schedule for two reasons: 1) For the three day weekends, and 2) Because of the holiday season this year - Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years all land on Thursdays - which will give me four-day paid holiday weekends.

Trust me...I am not complaining...it is just that sometimes I get bored on Fridays, because everyone else is usually working. So this last Friday, I decided to make a fall craft for the house. I used all scrap wood that Joel had laying around the garage, and some random scrapbooking paper, and made this Thanksgiving sign for our front table. Joel came home at lunch on Friday to help me cut the wood blocks to the appropriate sizes - What a great husband I have!!

My mom let me borrow her cricut cutter for a few weeks, so I made the letters out of black paper. (Thanks Mom!) Joel liked the sign before I put the leaves on it, but I still think that it looks cute.

Another Fun Filled Weekend...

(The Anderson Family that was in attendance at the wedding)

Joel's sister Jenny got married this last weekend on November 1, 2008. She married Eric Nelson in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Joel really enjoyed having a lot of his siblings and their families around for the weekend. His family is so big - it is hard to get everyone together.

(The bride and groom - Jenny and Eric Nelson)

(Joel with his brother Justin and his niece Erica)

(Erica and I waiting for the pictures to begin)

(Joel and I after the wedding)

The parks in Coeur D'Alene are beautiful, especially in the fall.

Halloween 2008!

Erica dressed as a witch this year, and her brother Andrew was a boyscout.

Little Gage was a skeleton, and Cole was a Tiger.

Joel's niece and nephews came to our neighborhood this year to trick-or-treat. It was fun to see them all dressed up. Erica was the winner for getting the most candy.

(These are our neighbors - Benson was a monkey and Raegan was a cat. They are so cute.)

Craft Night

Last night, a few of my close girl friends got together at my house and made Christmas boards to hang our stockings on this holiday season. It was so great to get everyone together and just talk and laugh while we made a cute craft to hang in our houses.

(The girls that made Christmas boards from left to right are: Camille, Kim, Rhonda, Beth, Steph, and myself)

(Bev and her cute baby Kade stopped by to say hello.)

It is always so much fun for me to see Bev. I lived with her for so many years, and really miss not having her around more.

(Some of the girls working on their cute boards)
It is amazing how each board turned out completely different.
There was so much creative talent in the room...I wish I had a picture of each board to display.

(Me and my finished project)

We are all going to try to get together at one of our houses each month and make a craft. It allows us to get caught up and enjoy one anothers company. It is crazy how busy life gets, and then trying to find time for evryone to get together is near impossible at times. Hopefully we will all make this a monthly priority, and our husbands can all get together and go do their guy bonding as well.

Beautiful Colors of Fall

I just absolutely love fall. It is my favorite time of year. I think the colors are so beautiful, which means...that it is my favorite time to take pictures. -Lucky for Joel -

He is a good sport. We went for a walk after church last Sunday and took a few pictures with our self-timer (hence why the pictures are not very good).

It was fun just to walk around and view all the leaves turning color.

(These fire red bushes are my favorite!)

(This one was taken right after church at the Finch Arboretum)