This is Halloween, This is Halloween....

Erik and me and our little nugget went to the pumpkin patch on Saturday. It was lots of fun I was smiling the whole time I don't know why it just hit the spot for a fun fall activity. We first went to Davis Family Farms here in Corvallis they had donuts and hot chocolate and a hay ride out to their pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins. HOWEVER, their pumpkins were .25 cents a pound which I think is a bit much so we instead rode the little hayride out to the patch and rode it right back in while we munched on our donuts but it was lots of fun.

The trailer was pulled by this big huge tractor. The driver would let kids come up and help him drive the tractor around which I thought was pretty cute the kids were loving it. 

This was the pumpkin patch we ended up going to. It was awesome it's a place called Twedt's off of highway 20. We have come here a few times for produce at different times of the summer they have very good products and at a very reasonable price. This u-pick patch was only .10 cents a pound so I think we did WAY better and we had the pick of the patch and got all of these pumpkins and some gourds for 5 bucks. 

Us chilling at the pumpkin patch. Can I just say how much I love this man? He is my favorite, he takes such good care of us and our little family. 

Erik carving his K-Bar contest pumpkin. This knife brand company K-Bar was having a pumpkin carving contest on Facebook that they had people carve pumpkins with their K-Bar knives and then post them and the best one wins a free K-Bar knife so Erik went all out with his zombie pumpkin. Hopefully they will announce the winner tomorrow or Friday keeping our fingers crossed that he wins!

This is the knife that I He-manned apart while trying to carve my pumpkin. Oops! Who knew pregnancy would give me all of this extra strength to break knives in half? haha

Erik's zombie pumpkin complete. It is pretty gruesome I must say, I hope he wins! 

All of our pumpkins! I thought mine needed to be a bit more happy to contrast Erik's scary pumpkin. I think we did pretty good. 

Our mason jar pumpkins all lit up. I like them I think they turned out pretty cute. 

Delicious pumpkin seeds! This is one of my favorite Halloween treats! Yum Yum Yum!

I came home the other night and this tree was on fire it was so bright with the evening sun coming down on it it was beautiful I wish the picture could give it justice. We have had such beautiful colors here fall is wonderful. One thing I like about Oregon is that these colors stick around for weeks in Utah I swear there was like a week where they would be really pretty and then it would freeze and all the leaves would fall. These bright beautiful colors stick around all of October and then some. 

Oh yeah one last thing. Happy 14 weeks! I think I'm finally getting a noticeable belly. I have a Dr. appointment tomorrow and hopefully they will talk to us about setting up our appointment for our anatomy ultrasound to find out the gender in 6 weeks. We can't wait!

Erik and Britton + One

That's right! Erik and I are adding to our little family. This is our little buddy at only 7 weeks that was the last time they gave us an ultrasound and we don't get another one until 20 weeks when we find out if it's a boy or a girl in early December. We are 13 weeks along now and heading into our second trimester! Hallelujah! We are so excited and blessed. I can't believe that we are being trusted with this little spirit God is sending us and can't wait to meet them in April! 

The day I turned 11 weeks was one of my sickest days ever. I am so grateful for my job because luckily it was a slow day at work and I was actually able to get a pedicure. It made me feel so much better nothing feels better than just relaxing when you feel so crummy. I have been very lucky though I haven't been as sick as I could have been. I have still been able to work my normal amount and have been blessed with not throwing up which was a huge bonus! It also helped me keep it a secret at work for awhile until I was ready without anyone getting suspicious. 

This was me last week sometime. Around 11 weeks when I felt so sick that hard lump in my belly moved up a bit to right below my belly button and it's making my belly stick out a bit more. I feel really strange I'm at that weird stage where if people don't know I'm pregnant they would just think I've gained a few pounds. Only one pair of my pants still fit me comfortably, so Erik took me maternity pants shopping the other day and I tell you I don't know why everyone doesn't wear them they are so comfortable! Way better than squishing into my too tight pants every day! 

A couple of nights ago this is the pregnancy craving that attacked. Bacon and Chocolate cereal. I haven't had that many craving but this was definitely one of them. A couple of days before we found out I was pregnant I downed a half a bottle of pickles all by myself. Also pizza ALWAYS sounds good. A couple of times we've made late night runs to little caesars down the road because that was what I needed. Erik is so good at taking care of me and my pregnancy crazies. 

We are very excited about our little one I can't wait until we find out if it's a boy or a girl so I can start shopping! I think they do that on purpose so we only have 20 weeks to do all of the shopping instead of the full 40 weeks and don't go overboard. Haha. 

Ok Fall I take it back. I'm not loving you right now.

     I woke up this morning and looked at the temperature on my phone. 39 degrees. Where do I live again? Utah? Nope. Oregon. Are you serious? That is dead of winter temperatures here why are we getting them at the beginning of October? I don't think that this bodes well for the near future. 
     Now that rant is over, I am enjoying the stay inside where it's warm thing. We pressed apple cider with our friends about a week ago that was delicious! We just sat inside with our steaming mugs and listened to the rain fall outside. 
     I got a flyer in the mail about a week ago telling me that one of our local craft shops was closing and having a major clearance on their craft supplies. So I got thinking that I would go and check it out the store was opening at 9:30 the next day and I thought I could use some supplies. So a little after ten I decide to meander over there and check it out and this is what I see wrapped around the parking lot and the store had already been open for 45 minutes! I'm pretty sure there were more people here than had shopped in the store in the last month (hence the reason for it closing) so I just turned my little self around and went back home. 'Ain't nobody got time for that...

On Sunday we had a huge rain storm and about 6:00 at night we look up and our ceiling is dripping and sagging. So we put a bucket under it to catch the drips and about an hour later our power goes out. So then we have a drippy ceiling AND no power. So we decided to just leave our house and go to our friend's the  Butler's to sit in front of their fireplace and stay warm and chat so it turned out to be a really nice night. 

So I may or may not have colored my hair pretty purple...This was pretty frightening when I looked in the mirror with hot pink color all over my head...

At least it didn't turn out hot pink. It's pretty fun I like it. Definitely ready for fall!

We finally pulled out our Halloween decorations yesterday and decided to watch Hocus Pocus while we put them up. I can't believe how old this movie is it's still such a good one. 

I didn't realize how few decorations we have. I think we need to go shopping some more we definitely need some cobwebs to go with our spider and to make that candle look creepier. We also have purple lights over our window that could use some creepy cobwebs. 

This was my Halloween decorating project for this year. Got to love Pinterest. I made them out of mason jars and we are going to put little tea lights in them so that they glow all cute like little jack-o-lanterns. We like them. :) 

That's all for now folks!