Happy Birthday Cara!!!

Cara is a freakin' rock star.

I love this girl soooooo much.

She is such an example to me. We have made some awesome memories togheter. I am so lucky to not only have a sister but a friend.

I cannot believe she is 21 today.

So happy I am here to celebrate with her!

Love you.

11/11/11

I believe that wishes do come true. As cheesy as that sounds, I really do believe that!
If I am looking at the clock at 11:11 I always make a wish.
I make my wishes count when I blow out candles too.
If I am lucky enough to see a shooting star... I make a wish on that too.

I am pretty sure making all those wishes is how I got Tyler.

Today is 11/11/11 which means at 11:11 you must make the best wish you can think of!!
Better make it count!

Date Night.

When Tyler got home from school last night he came home to a poem on the door.

"I know its a little late

For a Halloween themed date.

There will be pumpkins, popcorn, and coco to share

Come on in if you dare."

I'm sure my creative writing teacher would have been impressed with that.

We never carved our pumpkins-- we got crazy busy with other other activities! I am so glad we waited because after Halloween we were able to pick up a pumpkin carving kit {I ALWAYS wanted one}!

Tyler and the Pumpkin Guts

For some reason I remember pumpkin carving being extremely messy-- I think the last pumpkin I carved was when I was 10. It was not messy at all-- very civilized.

The final result!!

I think it turned out super cute!

I also made pumpkin hot chocolate-- delicious.

and

Popped homemade popcorn-- in a pot over the stove!! It was seriously so fun {I am easily impressed}. Tyler did a video of the popcorn-- I will try to find it!

It's Already November!

How on earth is it already November?? Most of the time I am counting the days to get to November, but this year it snuck up on me!! November is one of my very favorite months because it is Fall...the leaves are changing and falling...oh yeah and McNeil-Janes Palooza aka Thanksgiving! So excited.

Us last Thanksgiving!

I was just looking at my November posts from last year and they are all about wedding preperations-- hard to believe that was all happening a year ago! What an amazing year it has been!