My Birthday!

I had a great birthday this year and felt so loved by all my family! Before we left Kansas City, Katie and Jeff took us out to eat a a fun new Brazilian restaurant (it was a lot like Tucanos) in Kansas City. It was delicious and I ate WAY too much! 

On my birthday, Logan and my family surprised me with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop) and a second monitor to use it on! I couldn't be more happy! It was also really awesome to get a gift card to Banana Republic (I'm kinda addicted). 

Cynthia put together a package full of little things that I love, like halvah. Yum! It was also cute that she tried to find some Texas things for our upcoming move. The little star magnets are adorable! 

After presents, we headed to Oklahoma City, got some yummy lobster at Red Lobster and saw a movie and even had time to go to the outlet mall (because I had to use my gift card, of course!).

Logan pretty much spoiled me all day and it was a ton of fun :) Actually, to be honest we pretty much celebrated my birthday all month long. When ever I wanted something or we were making a decision, Logan would be like, "ok, it is your birth month". I love celebrating birth months!

For my cake, I made a blueberry cheesecake with a pecan shortbread crust and homemade whipped topping (all homemade and all delicious!). It was amazing!

I can't wait until Logan's birthday so I can return the favor!

Thanksgiving in Kansas

Our closest family this year was Katie and Jeff, so we headed up to Kansas City to celebrate Thanksgiving with them this year! 

On the way up, Logan said he wanted to have a "thing" to be in charge of at Thanksgiving that he could do every year, and you know, be "his thing". The next day when we got out the really cold and wet Turkey, Katie and me knew exactly what Logan could do to help! 

We decided that he could have the Turkey be his thing and that would grant him the privilege of sticking his hand in the nasty turkey to pull out the neck and stuff and he could be the one to wash, dry and dress an extremely cold Turkey. 

Well, I think he enjoyed it more then I thought he would and he was pretty proud of the great Turkey that resulted from it. Good job Logs! You really can do that job every year! 

Logan and his Turkey

Sister cooking in the kitchen

Jeff carving the Turkey

We had everything you would ever want for a Thanksgiving Dinner. Unfortunately, I didn't get a good picture of everything because once it is all done, there really is no time to waste before eating it up! Dinner was great, but there is always room for dessert! 

I did get a good picture of the dessert!!! We had pumpkin roll, pumpkin pie, magic chocolate pie and a new one that Katie and me made up that we decided to call a caramel pie! 

A piece of each pie to go along with my whipped cream! 

We had a great few days with Katie and Jeff. They are so much fun to hang out with. Before leaving, they wanted to celebrate my birthday with me that was in a few days, so they took us out to a great new Brazilian restaurant. 

Before dinner, we stopped by Zona Rosa to take pictures in front of the giant Christmas tree. It is a good thing that we did that before dinner because afterwards, I was way too full to stand!

Target Shooting

After work today, Logan and I drove out to a free place to practice target shooting.  It has been a while since we shot the gun and I know that Logan was happy to get out and do something fun. 

The range was out at a wildlife refuge about a half hour away. When we found it, it was pretty obvious because of all the debris. We brought our own homemade targets that I was pretty proud of coming up with. I taped a popsicle stick to each paper plate and them some got spacial images. My favorite was the zombie.

Here are the Targets set up. We both took turns shooting and reloading. We are both pretty good shots.

Here my good looking man is reloading the clip. He loves his side holster. Good thing Oklahoma is an open carry State. When we were pretty much done with the targets Logan decided to shoot all the Popsicle sticks holding them up. I was impressed he hit them all!

Voting

I was very excited to vote this year. It is the second time I have been able to. I was really sad that I had to mail in my ballot because that meant I wouldn't get one of the stickers that say "I Voted". Then, a few days before voting day, I got a letter in the mail and my mom had sent me one to wear! She had picked up an extra one when she went to vote and made sure to get it to me! I love her so much! 

Here I am wearing my "I Voted" sticker and showing off my mail-in ballot. 

Halloween

We had a pretty good Halloween this year. We carved our pumpkin to look like Jack the Pumpkin King. I think it turned out pretty well! 

Here he is all lit up! 

I though that we would go to a Halloween party but I ended up going to the church to help out with the Trunk-or-Treat that the Young Women were doing some of the games for.

Logan got the assignment of passing out candy at home. Apparently the base is a really popular place for parents to take their kids so he was pretty busy. I was also really proud that he wore his Robin Hood outfit that I came up for him. He said all the kids thought he looked great!

Doesn't he look so cool! I think he wished his bow was real and not just a branch I tied yarn to. 

After the Trunk-or-Treat, I came home and we tried to watch some scary movies (the only time we do that all year) but they ended up actually being more boring than scary, so we had no problems falling asleep that night.