Fall has arrived with all its beautiful color and dreariness. It's been raining here, well, drizzling at least, for almost a week off and on. But we've been having fun with the activities that bring in the holiday season!
We hope everyone had a great Halloween. We had fun decorating the front of the house this year as we do every year and now are just waiting for this rainy drizzle to subside so that we can put away our decorations and finish getting the yard ready for the fall. Jordan was a great help with all the artistic organization of the decorations.
Front of house
We carved pumpkins as well, Jordan's friend Sarah came over and they did a huge pumpkin with a face on each side. The thing took up half the porch! Here is the result of my pumpkiny carving fun;
Jordan came to my office after school one day and helped me decorate. Our efforts paid off as my office won the 'best decorations' contest.
I dressed as a pirate for our work celebration.
Jordan changed her mind very late in the evening and decided to dress up as a zombie. She looked very scary but we didn't get pictures it was later in the evening. She had a good time handing out candy to the handful of trick or treaters we did have. Bummer we don't get more, seems like that tradition is going by the wayside quickly.
On Saturday I put a plan into motion for our first anniversary. The first is paper so I made little origami cranes that had clues written on the inside of them. I told Cobs I was going to the grocery and had Jordan give him the first clue 15 minutes after I left. It sent him upstairs to change into clothes I had laid out for him and get another clue from Jordan. His second clue sent him to our friend Eric's house where I had planted a bottle of Italian champagne and another clue. This clue sent him to our friend Ashley's house to pick up flowers and another clue. The final clue sent him to a historic B&B in the north end
JJ Shaw house where I was waiting for him on the staircase landing in my wedding dress. For those of you who don't know, Cobi has never seen me in my dress, we ended up getting married by a friend who is a judge at the courthouse instead of having a big wedding. So he walked in and started crying, there was soft music playing and it was so sweet to feel like we had just gotten married all over again.
We sat in the parlor and chatted for a bit then went to our room and changed. We stayed in
Shaw's retreat, which is a suite that takes up the entire attic space of this old house.
The house is gorgeous having been built in 1907 and kept in pristine shape. That evening we walked through a fall drizzle and crunchy leaves to the Hyde Park area of Boise and had dinner at a nice restaraunt called the Bungalow. It was very charming, the atmosphere was perfect and laid back and the food was wonderful as well. Unfortunately, after we arrived back at our B&B I was very sick most of the night, but Cobi played nursemaid very well. The next morning we had pancakes for breaky and due to being very tired, went home early where we took it easy the rest of the day. It was a bummer getting sick but we did enjoy the time together which we spent reminiscing and chatting and just enjoying each other's company.
Thank you to all our good friends who helped make our Anniversary very special. Hope everyone had a great Halloween and wonderful weekend as we did. We miss and love you all so much!! K,C&J
