a lot to update on! (long with LOADS of pictures!)

I again have been a super big slacker. October was a great month! We spent two of the weekends in Sacramento for my cousin Brandon’s mission farewell and the next weekend for a baby blessing. My best friend Lauren and her husband Adam blessed their sweet baby Aiden in their ward. It was my first time seeing baby Aiden and he is adorable and so sweet!

Halloween was the same weekend as the blessing, so Deric and I got to take the girls (natalie and brooke) around trick or treating! I haven’t been trick or treating door to door in a LONG time! It was a lot of fun to run around the neighborhoods with the girls! Deric and I decided to dress up as Raggedy Anne and Andy. Most of the parents knew who we were but a lot of the kids had NO clue! 

 

We also got side swiped going down the grapevine on the way to Sacramento the 2nd weekend. Luckily NOTHING bad happened to us. Just got some rubber on the side of our car. But Deric did spend the rest of the next day with my brother Brian learning how to change brakes and putting on new tires!

 

We just booked out tickets to come home for Christmas! We will be in Spokane the 21st-2nd! I can NOT wait! It is going to be SO much fun. I am so looking forward to spending a lot of time with family and playing in the snow and sitting around playing games! I am so excited for Christmas!

I love Halloween and fall! Pumpkin seeds, bags full of leaves, leaves covering the ground that crinkles under your feed, the crisp fall air. This is my favorite season! These two have one of the best relationships! Jillian is most definitely  lucky to have Brookie Cookie has her older sister!  Nathan “posing” for me in the tree! Okay is she NOT the cutest strawberry ever? We took her trick or treating with us for a while! At first she was a little hesitant to go to peoples doors, but after about 2 houses she realized that EVERY house gave her candy. She was running ahead of all of us to get to the houses! It was very cute to see a short little strawberry running down the side walk!

  This is Elder Brandon Treadway! WHAT AN AMAZING KID! He entered the MTC last Wednesday! He will be serving a 2 year mission for our church in Cebu Phillipeans. He is an amazing man and I can’t wait to hear about all of his adventures and am very excited to see him again in 2 years!    These kids are so cute! I lived with them for about a year and half! WHERES WALDO!!!!! Kept them busy for a good hour! well if she wont smile Nathan will make her!

They had to check the football scores during Brandon’s missionary farewell!

How many cups do you think I can stack on your had Uncle Deric? -Natalie

Recipe

 

Stuffed Pumpkin Recipe.

1 lbs ground hamburger

1lbs ground pork sausages ( jimmy dean works best)

1 chopped onion

2 chopped gloves garlic

1 cup rice

1 can diced tomatoes

1 6oz can tomato sauce

1 cup shredded parm cheese

1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

 

Cut and take out all insides of 4 small personal pumpkins or 1 large pumpkin. Wash everything out and spray inside of pumpkins with Pam or grease lightly with butter.

chop and sauté onion and garlic together. When soft and browned a little add both meats. Brown meats until meats are fully cooked.

Cook rice fully.

Mix everything together in a big mixing bowl. Save a little of the parm cheese to add to top of pumpkins.

Add mixture to either 4 small personal pumpkins or one large pumpkin.

Put all pumpkins in the refrigerator over night. 2 hours before eating put pumpkins in the oven at 350 degrees for 2 hours. top with parm cheese and leave off the top of the pumpkin. Not needed for cooking.

I use the top of the pumpkin right before serving for dinner to keep the insides warm before serving.

This also works in peppers.

ENJOY!!!!!

 

Our new home and Halloween!

 

 

 

Deric on leave!

 

   

 

Deric after leave going back to work:

 

We had some really good friends over for dinner Sunday night! I made stuffed pumpkins! Kinda like stuffed peppers! But I liked this SO much better! and its festive!

  

Honeymoon

Deric and I went on a cruise to Mexico for our honeymoon! We had so much fun. We were able to go to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, and Cabo San Lucas. We had so much fun in every city.

We had decided that Cruise’s are the way to go for vacations. You get a very comfortable room, loads of food, and a lot of fun entertainment. There is a Vegas type show every night, lots of live music, fun games to play and pools to swim in. Plus food 24 hours a day. There is a buffet at all hours of the night and a 24 hour pizza bar, plus free room service 24 hours a day! We gained a little weight on the cruise.

In Puerto Vallarta we did an extreme canopy adventure. We got to ride in an open air “limo”. A Mercedes truck. When we got to the base camp we got to ride Mules about 30 minutes up a mountain to the first zip line. We were able to ride about 15 zip lines and were also able to repel down a water fall and free fall zip line into water! It was so much fun!!!!

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Our next stop was Mazatlan. We didn’t do anything crazy here but we did go out and take a look at the city. It wasn’t my favorite city, but we did have fun!

Cabo San Lucas was the very last stop on the cruise. LOVED this city. It is beautiful! The only downside was there was a really bad storm that passed through while we were out on a taxi boat in the ocean. They had to close down the port because the waves and rain were so bad. But Deric and I had fun walking around the city in the rain and puddle jumping!

We took a glass bottom water taxi and our driver gave us bread to feed the fish! This is how I like to see fish in the ocean, inside a boat feeding them where I can record them and not touch them!

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We are alive!

Sorry for the non update!

We are all moved into our new apartment and LOVE it! Hopefully I will get some pictures up soon. Its been a great move for us and we absolutely love it  here! Anyone that wants to come visit we have plenty of room for you now! Just let us know!

One funny story before I need to go!

Last Saturday Deric and I were out looking for dressers at goodwill and walked by the shoe area. Deric goes over and starts looking at the shoes and then realized that half of the shoes on the shelf are his. 1 pair that he wanted to give to goodwill and 2 others that he thought he kept. We got to thinking that neither of us had seen any of his shoes since we moved in. So we decided to go home and see if we could find any of his shoes. Well long story short Deric gave all of his shoes that he wanted to keep to goodwill. So he only has 3 pairs of flip flops and a pair of slippers. Good thing we figured out before Sunday that he didn't have any church shoes or running shoes for work. So now Deric owns a new pair of really cheap payless church shoes and super cheap payless running shoes for work! Oh and it gets better!!! When we got home from looking at dressers and laughing about the shoes Deric decided to go look in the garage to see if maybe we had forgotten a bag in his car or on the shelves. (side not our garage door opener is very temperamental, it only works when it feels like it!) So as he was getting down from looking on the shelves
(garage door opener was in his pocket) the garage door closed. He pushed the bottom to get it to open again but NO he was stuck. Luckily he had his phone on him but we have horrible service! He tried to call me but the service kept dropping. and honestly i had NO clue he was outside in the garage I thought he was inside in the bathroom or something. I was wondering why he was calling me from the bathroom to tell me a funny story. I was yelling at him to come out of the bathroom to tell me the funny story. Well after about 5 minutes of trying to get connected through the phone he finally just text messaged me and told me that he was stuck in the garage!!! We had a super good laugh with that one! Now we both know to always bring our cell phones with us into the garage!!!

My dad is in town this weekend and we are heading down to San Diego to visit my brother and his family and then tomorrow we are heading up towards L.A. to visit my Grandpa's grave site. My dad hasn't been there in over 30 years! I am excited for him to go!!!