first minnesota visitors!

we LOVE LOVE LOVE when visitors come! especially when it's "ahno" and james. maya calls annie "ahno" and we call james her boyfriend because she has always had a crush on him. she had to sit next to him, hold his hand or go "find" him. she was so happy to have two people come and visit her. i'm sure she thought that they came just to see her. we had a great little visit, and the time went too fast, but we were so happy that they could come see us. we went to the farmer's market, mall of america, made lettuce wraps and apple pie, evan and james went to a hockey game, and annie and i saw the secret life of bees, all in all a fabulous weekend. thanks annie and james for coming all the way to visit us, we love you!

 

"ahno" and james

 

MY FIRST HOMEMADE APPLE PIE-this should be shocking to many of you who know that my mom is a fantastic apple pie maker and has a tradition of making apples in the fall, that it has taken me until now to make my first, but it was so fun and i'm happy to report the pie was quickly eaten.

 

maya doing her FAVORITE thing: throwing rocks into a river.

 

here is a picture of annie and i and my belly at 8 months pregnant. notice that not too many things are fitting. i have all sorts of great winter attire and it's ALL too short. boo.

Fall is here

 

 

 

 

Fall has definetely arrived here in Minnesota. Loving the fall colors, the lower temperatures (remind me that I said this when I'm FREEZING to death sometime around February, wondering when spring will ever come), the warmer clothing, although not much of mine fits anymore, apple pies, cider, and anything pumpkin. Maya and I have been eating cream of wheat every morning, I think it's a necessity here in Minnesota. We took Maya to an apple orchard where she ate her weight in apples, and we brought the rest home. And since then we've caught Maya hiding in the living room when she was supposed to be in bed, nibbling an apple. We have a little lawn now, and raked our leaves only to find that Maya had thrown about 50 rocks from our flower beds into the grass. She's the best helper ever. :) We raked and mowed, then the next day it looked as if we did nothing....that's enough to make you not want grass in your yard! But, we are loving fall and I'm not raking again until all the leaves are off the trees.

Good news

Found out this morning that Evan passed the bar! Hallelujah! We won't have to move back home with my parents! We're so proud of him....all the hard work of law school and spending an entire summer studying paid off. And he gets to keep his job! And we can now pay our dental bill that is crazy since we BOTH have to have some work done! Bummer!

Maya is busy writing on her feet right now. Although we have her write on paper, she LOVES to write all over her body.

We're getting a camera this weekend! Glory be! So I won't post any random pictures anymore. Yay! We're on a hunt to find some good apple cider and apples for making apple pie this weekend. The best thing about being pregnant in the fall is all of the deliciousness we have from baking. Made some amazing cinnamon rolls for conference weekend, which was incredible if you didn't get a chance to see it, and we'll have some apple pies going, some mulled cider and hot chocolate along with a list on my fridge just of sweets. I think my babies just really like sugar. Or is it me? :)