Papa's Pumpkin Patch

Yes, before you even ask, that really is the name of the place we went for date day on Saturday!  I am not creative enough to come up with something like that on my own.  Anyways...

Our Date Day was so fun!  Andrew and I decided to travel down to Bismarck since we were in serious need of some pumpkins for Halloween.  We went Papa's Pumpkin Patch, an all-around Halloween, harvest, hay bale place to be.  Seriously this place makes can't wait to have kids because it would have been a haven of fun for children!  That day if you wore a costume you got in free (no sadly we didn't wear one) but it was still a blast.   It had miniature pony rides, a "sand" box filled with corn kernels, a hay maze, a train, pumpkin gun launcher, and of course the pumpkin patch.

 

Us on the train

Yes, that really is corn in there

One of the "hay forts"

Who could not love this dork?!

Part of the pumpkin patch

We got 4 little pumpkins ^_^

Our "big" pumpkin we brought home

As you can tell it was raining the whole time we were there.  Big deal.  It was a blast!  It is days like that, that make us remember why we love spending time together. After we killed time by stopping at Old Navy, getting a costume for Athena (muahaha...stay tuned), and the dollar store for some decorations.  For dinner, as I am supposed to mention, we had Red Lobster where Andrew dove into the special of having the endless shrimp.  I have no clue how many he ate, I lost track after 50!  

We are so excited for Halloween, literally our 1st one we have ever celebrated together (we have somehow been apart all the times we have been dating and married).  So we loved sharing this day together and getting ready for the most festive time of the year - Oct 31st through Jan 1st :D

Love,

The Andersons

Makin Our House A Home

Today was a pretty crazy awesome day.  We were told last night that we were speaking Sunday (today).  So with barely anytime to prepare we gave pretty amazing talks if I do say so myself. But what made it even crazier were our roles today in church!  One of Andrew's calling in church is over the CTR 4 class.  He has about 8 kids and the other teacher has only shown up once to help teach.   Meaning he is in there all by himself.  But, last night I was also asked to help out in nursery for today.  No big deal only 15 kids under the age of 3.  haha Yeah it was crazy fun.  Who would have known all the things you can learn from little kiddos?  

Anyways, for this blog post I wanted to share some of the little treasures in our house.  We moved into the house the middle of July but I still feel like we are setting up.  But first things first...

We have grass!

When we first moved in everything was under construction still.  It was all dirt and looked very uneven.  So they just put down seed and ta-da!  Grass over night (ok it took a little longer than that).  They have a contract for about a year where they do everything to make our yard look nice.  They even added planters and our very own tree.

Obviously no real growth yet:)

The other pictures I am going to show you are merely little add ins that I have found overtime to make our house more of a home.  As you can see it is a bit of a tropical theme, perhaps to create our very own sanctuary when we hit the true North Dakota weather!

Our couch we bought and brought from Utah:)

The little side table 

Just an accessory for the dinning room I bought at a base garage sale!  25cents for the new Chinese lanterns not too shabby

Our little set up in our ikea furniture!  I made the picture frame display!

A new painting just given to us from someone moving out

The best new furniture of all is a TV!  We do have an old TV my parents gave us, which we were very thankful for, but we did plan on getting a new one during Black Friday.  But Andrew works with someone recently going through a divorce and is getting rid of all his stuff.  So....drum roll please....we just got a 2009 flat screen 42 in TV for $100.  That painting was thrown in as well.  Got to love living on base you get awesome deals!

Andrew very happy with his new television!

That's all for now for now folks. Although,we are officially going to Iowa for Thanksgiving and Utah for Christmas and couldn't be more excited!  Where better to spend such major holidays than with family.  We feel we have been truly blessed lately and just know things are finally falling into place.

Love, 

The Andersons