HALLOWEEN NIGHT!!!

Yea!!!! Halloween is here! Aaron rented Indiana Jones and Forgetting Sara Marshall to watch as we passed out candy and we got a papa Murphy's Pizza for dinner! HOW FUN! We are getting quite a few trick-or-treaters and a few of those have been my students! I am getting responses like, "Ooooooh! It's Mrs. Cooper!" and "Dang! You live here? I live right around the corner!" Then as they leave they say " That was my math teacher!" I just laugh! and say "have a good night! be safe!" I am sooo excited to have a house and live in a neighborhood! I even had a friend stop by with her son! I feel like I have a real HOME here! I am also feeling a little nostalgic! I miss being a kid in the Condo's on Halloween! I am glad we have gotten so many kids! I think we are going to run out of candy!
H-A-P-P-Y H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N!

Getting Ready for Halloween!

We are really enjoying fall! Aaron and I went hiking in the Columbia Gorge in the Bridal Veil Falls area last weekend! It was beautiful but I was a little disappointed that the leaves were not as colorful as we expected! After our hike we had a picnic at Multanomah Falls, with everyone else in the Portland Metro Area, we could not believe how many people were there! Then we stopped and bought pumpkins to carve. Aaron worked on our new patio while I carved the pumpkins and we felt like we had a very FALLISH weekend! We are so excited to finally have a house and kids to come trick-or-treating on Halloween! I put lights up in the front walk way with the pumpkins I carved. I think it looks great, especially with the yellow leaves in the yard!

Our patio is looking really good too! I cannot believe how fast Aaron did it! There are still a lot of finishing touched to put on it but I am REALLY excited to put a chiminea on it and enjoy lots of outdoor evenings! Here is what the process looked like!! Believe me it was A LOT of bricks!