Happy Birthday, Bryan!

This past Sunday was Bryan's twenty-sixth birthday. We are officially the same age again. On Saturday we went out to a Teppanyaki type Japanese restaurant where they put on a show and cook your food in front of you. It was just us two so we had to sit at a table with strangers but that was fine and we enjoyed ourselves. The day itself was pretty relaxed. We didn't have church because the Boise temple was being rededicated so we were able to sleep in. I made him crepes and bacon for breakfast and then he opened presents. We had them sitting out in our front room for the past couple of weeks upon his request and nearly every day he asked if he could open them.

After presents we got ready and headed to the re-dedication that was being broadcast in our stake center. It was such a beautiful thing to witness. I'm so grateful that we now have our temple operating again and it is really only like five minutes away. We are incredibly blessed to live here.

Then we just spent the rest of the day relaxing. I made Bryan's favorite dinner, Chicken Enchiladas, and a beautiful chocolate birthday cake.

It was very rich but very delicious. I had some extra cream cheese frosting from the middle of the cake so I just put it on top here.

My parents' present came yesterday so I got a picture of him opening some of his gifts.

Bryan seemed to enjoy the day as did I. I think I like pampering people on their birthdays more than my own birthday. I'm so happy that I get to be married to my best friend and spend every day together. Happy birthday, Bryan!

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Halloween

This year, Bryan and I had a relaxed Halloween with friends at our home. Leading up to it, I think I was more excited about our decorations than the actual day!

This is the third wreath I've made since we moved here and it is far from the last. This was another idea from Pinterest-- I love that site so much. Now that Halloween is over I put our fall wreath back up from a previous post.

Most of our decorations were courtesy of Target-- like this cute skeleton man!

Our cute little mantle.

Reusing the millions of bats that Bryan cut out for me last year! His efforts were not in vain.

We really like lanterns. Thank you, Target. 

In case you wanted a little video tour...

We did end up carving second pumpkins since our last ones rotted pretty quickly. It was fun, anyway!

Bryan did a winky emoticon.

I made a haunted house, using a template (though I just referenced it-- I free handed this with a dry erase marker instead of making all those little holes).

This year, Bryan and I were planning on staying home watching a movie and greeting trick or treaters. This would have been this first time in a while (possibly ever-- I can't remember if I dressed up in High School or not) that I wasn't going to dress up for Halloween. Then, the night before, our friends Lee and Suzanne asked if we wanted to do something for it and convinced us to dress up too, as they'd put a lot of thought into costumes but not so much into plans. All dressed up with nowhere to go-- that cliche in literal action, wow!

Anyway, I had some old costumes from previous events and decided we'd be 30's people since it was easy to turn into a couples costume without too much expense. Bryan and I went to a Murder Mystery in our old singles ward so we had a lot of the things but I did have to pick up a few things from Target. My pictures are a little dark. I shouldn't have resisted using flash!

Suzanne took much better photos with her sweet camera.

The Andersons were the Joker and Harley Quinn from Batman. 

Awesome creepy joker face.

Then we decide to watched old classic The Witches. Movies like that don't have the same effect when you're an adult but it was fine and free (thank you AmazonPrime Instant Streaming!) and an excuse to get together. We ate Halloween candy (no one came to our door!) and sugar cookies and that was it.

I did a finger wave in my hair, though it is mostly obscured by the fascinator veil. I'm not sure it turned out great but I spent a while on it so I took these pictures just before I disassembled it so I could remember what it looked like.

Halloween, check. Thanksgiving, here we come!