Happy Halloween!!

Well, we have a few plans for this Halloween! Which is pretty exciting for me at least, because I haven't really done anything festive for Halloween in a while. Tonight was the ward Trunk - or - Treat party, so we dressed up and decorated our trunk! And we had cool jungle sounds as background sound effects and it was awesome. I think we're getting at least an "honorable mention" (the Bishop was judging the trunks) So that was pretty fun. We gave out candy to the kids and John drove them all crazy by asking them questions about what they were dressed up as when they were CLEARLY on a mission to get as much candy as possible ha ha John was a cowboy and I was a gypsy/dancer/person/thing. (I really just wanted to wear the outfit)

Tomorrow night we're going to a Halloween party at a friend's place from the ward. Lots of food and fun to look forward to! Maybe I'll remember to take pictures and I'll get those up here too :)

Our trunk decorations, it was like my trading tent or something

My cute cowboy :)

Displaying my goods ha ha

Puh-kin Carving and gOOgly eyes

That's how i like to say pumpkin. "PUH-kin" :) anyway, we decided to be Halloween-y and festive last night and carved a pumpkin! I picked up one at the farmer's market we shop at and found a great big one! i was so excited! and then when we started carving, we realized how THICK the rind was! it was so hard to carve! but we had a good time. we designed a haunted house to go on it and we even had some little candles to light :) after the sticky gooey mess of cleaning out the, as i like to call them, pumpkin innards, we set to work carving out our little design (which i downloaded and printed off the internet hee hee) then we lit the candles and our pumpkin looked REALLY cool.

And then i decided i wanted it to be Christmas ha ha John thinks i'm kidding, but our little 2-ft tree is going up as soon as November rolls around ;)

Trying to get the knife in all the way

We had so many of these gloves left over...
So we used them to clean out the innards :)

Eww!! Slimy!!

John set to work carving our design

Spoooooky!

Mwa ha ha haaaaa

During my spare time (of which i have LOTS) i made some little mummy candy holders out of some paper towel rolls, paper, rolled gauze and gOOgly eyes!!! (i love saying googly. it's pretty much one of my favorite words, right up there with 'orb')

Aren't they cute?!?

And now i have lots of left over gOOgly eyes that i had some fun with and i made each of us a pet rock :) They don't have names yet though...

Hee hee

We Heart BYU!

Yay for more family coming to visit! My dad came in from Virginia for the weekend and although he says it was to see us, the BYU vs. SDSU football game definitely had something to do with it ;) But we had lots of fun! The day dad got in we went to Balboa Park and shopping at Costco and had yummy dinner at Outback Steakhouse (my FAVORITE!) and then on Saturday was the game. As the faithful football fan, i spend most of the first half finishing up the book i was currently engrossed in (Magyk, by Angie Sage) but by the second half, the cougars had my full attention :) And we won! Apparently, our defense wasn't that great, but we managed to hold them off to win by 10 points. (i don't really pay much attention to the quality of the playing, and although i understand the game must better than i used to, let's be honest, it's a bunch of guys running into each other) But we had a great time together even after getting scorched in the sun. We were sad to see him go back home, but we all had to get back to reality eventually.

RA, RA, RARARA
RA, RA, RARARA

RA, RA, RARARA

GOOOO COUGARS!!!

Maritime Museum with the Moffats

Whew! That was a lot of M's. :) Yesterday, Mom and Dad Moffat, along with Kirsten and Joseph came down to visit us! Yay! We spent the day with them and went to the Maritime Museum in downtown San Diego. It was really cool! We got to go on a historic "cruise" around the bay, walk
on old ships and submarines and see tons of ships in bottles :)

John wanted to be captain

So I got to ring the bell ;)

I must say, it looks really authentic with
the skyscrapers and the palm trees in the background...

The Russian submarine

You had to be able to fit through this hole to go into the Russian sub.
There were 4 or 5 of these you'd have to go through.

Yay! I fit!

John LOVED the submarines and found a fun
button to push while we were down there...

After the museum, we had some lunch and seaport village and went to Coronado Island (which, we learned on our cruise that it is actually a peninsula. by anyway...) and visited the Hotel Del Coronado which is VERY fancy. But we all had a really good time and we are so glad they came to visit us!! :) Now I have to get a hold of the pictures that Dad Moffat took to put up here too! :)

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

We like to call this one

"Our first month of marriage"





John calculated that we have been sick for approximately 87.5% of our marriage thus far. You'll have to forgive him, he is a mutant you know. (if you don't know what i'm talking about, refer to my Cute Lasagna post)

Fun, huh? ;)

OKTOBERFEST!

So it wasn't exactly everything I'd hoped and dreamed for, but hey, it's not Germany, so it can only be sub-par at best ;) But we did have a lot of fun, we listened to this really funny polka playing band that yodeled and played some fun songs. We ate a pretzel that was bigger than my head (we would have taken a picture, but we were so excited about eating it ha ha) and walked around and looked at the fun tents and booths of merchandise. Everyone was drinking and dancing when the band played and there was the smell of bratwurst in the air. Not too bad :)

MCAS Miramar Airshow

Another adventure we had before we went to the doctor and found out John has cellulitis on his face was going to the MCAS Miramar airshow on Friday. It was really cool! A little loud, really hot, and lots of people, but the acts were really cool! We could only go for the morning, because John had to get back for a grading session for his GA position, so we didn't get to see the Blue Angels or anything, but their guest performers were the Snowbirds from Canada, and they were pretty awesome too.

Yay! We're at the Airshow!

These pilots were AMAZING!

Here are the snowbirds in action. Our program said that some of their formations have them as close as 4 feet of wing overlap. CRAZY!

I'm amazed!!! ;)

This stunt got me the most nervous. The two snowbirds would start flying directly at each other, then at the LAST SECOND, turn so they'd just barely miss each other. eek! ;)

Awwww.

John got a couple of pictures with the aircrafts they had on display at the show.

There were so many there!

At least we got to have a little more fun before we went to the doctor and were told John has cellulitis. We're hoping we're not going to end up playing bacteria tag...and I get something yucky again next. Here's hoping! We're definitely disinfecting the apartment again REALLY soon ;)

Feeling better and having fun!

Whew! i guess it's been a little while and i haven't finished the story of the MRSA sore! But first things first.

I have been feeling MUCH better, so we were able to have some fun and go spend some time at the Birch Aquarium at UCSD. We found this awesome water table and we probably spent more time there, playing with the boats and water than we did actually looking at fish! But we had so much fun!

Getting ready to sail his boat down the canal

There goes my boat! WHOOSH!

Sending the boats down was my favorite part
(and I think this is one of the first
pictures i've taken since
my hair got cut short...)

Eek! I was going to be shark's bait!
(I was trying to keep the black
curtain closed behind me. It
was windy)

John was not happy to be shark food

In front of the big whale statues/fountain

So I am happy to report that my sore has almost completely closed up and is looking much better. I'm going have one heck of a scar on my hip, but now I can always remember our first month of marriage :)

John is still experiencing random ailments, however. He had a stye in his right eye last week, and now there is a small sore above his right eyebrow that has started to swell. We're hoping it doesn't get too serious, so we're watching it and making sure it stays clean.

(okay, so i've been meaning to post this for a few days now. But we went in to urgent care for John's sore on Friday...it was swelling pretty bad and was painful...and it turns out John has cellulitus on his face. yuk. not fun. So that's the update on that anyway...)