Happy Halloween From My Little Family

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    Happy Halloween!!!!!

This is probably my favorite holiday ever!!!! THis year me, corey, and aiden were Mario, Luigi, and princess toadstool.  it was so much fun! Aiden is really starting to come into his personality.

Here is the little guy hitting up some of the houses..

 
I have had so much fun this halloween season. We have gone to halloween horror nights.. THis year the theme was walking dead. Now im a little late on it, but i have never really seen the show (ahhh! dont boo me!) I enjoy going to HHN so much more the Howl o Scream at busch gardens. I went to that one for years and now i feel deprived. lol

I am so excited about the decorations around the house. Can i just say what a humongous fan of hobby lobby that i am??? its like the best place on earth. i was able to put together a bunch of halloween decor for next to nothing between that store and pinterest. the pick your poison sign is a download, and the jar was like seven dollars from tj maxx. the martinis are apple cider martinis yum!!!!!!!

The wreath was spray painted black, with a foam spider from hobby lobby and beware sign from wal-mart. it cost like 5 dollars to make. The boo sign was wood letters from hobby lobby and black ribbon, and glitter spray paint from there as well. I love it! but one negative is that it bangs on the door. The pendent banner was a download from pinterest, as well as the two signs. I cut the pendents and layered it with halloween scrapbook paper. i had the picture frames laying around from ikea, and took my print outs to stables and had them blown up to 11 x 14 for one dollar. Awesome!!!

We had our first annual family halloween party. we had pumpkin carving, costumes, treats, and fantastic halloween food.

by the way the bottom left pizza looking one is delicious. it is sweetened cream cheese, layered with caramel, and toffee bits on top. We used apples to dip in it. The other is cool whip and pumpkin.

This was our trip to Mickeys not so scary halloween. Poor little guy was sick, but he toughed it out. next year we will make it all the way around lol.

 

this is my gorgeous sister. I love her with all my heart. she is my best friend. a week after this picture she gave birth to her first child, elijah maddox kent. she was 4 weeks premature, so it was unexpected, but everyone is in great health! so excited for this adventure. but for now, i hope everyone had a wonderful halloween and have a good night!

A Night on the Town With Michael Buble

  Corey bought me tickets back in September for my birthday to go to the Michael Buble concert. We finally got to go last night! He was amazing! Not only super talented, and his band was fantastic, but he was hysterical. Anytime we werent being entranced by his music we were laughing. Here is a clip from my phone. It's weird, I have an HTC One that takes AMAZING pictures but the video sucks :(

 We sat in 218, but we still got a fantastic show...

 OH! And his opening act was great as well. They are called Naturally 7. They do the vocal play, where there is no band, just do the instruments with their voices. Here's a link to their site:
 Naturally Seven

Awwww love him so much :)

Before the show we tried out a couple of new places. You know how we like to try new places out! First we went to Church Street Tavern. Its in the old place where Dessert Lady used to be (RIP I don't know if ANYTHING will be able to compete with that place) But we sat at a high top right in the back. First the place is so awesome looking..

I love the high ceilings and being able to see the building for it's true beauty. The menu is fairly limited. I'm not sure if it's because it is a new restaurant, but they had about 3 appetizers, a variety of decked out fries, 4 or 5 sandwiches, then there's about 6 variations on a sandwich called the beast. You pick a meat and then it's topped with provolone, cole slaw, french fries, and tomato. They have salads, a cobb, strawberry, caesar, chicken salad, and then about 2 entrees. We happened upon them after not being able to get into Rusty Spoon AGAIN... lol it's almost a game now. We have heard such great things about them, but they're either closed for a private event, or too busy. 

It was wine Wednesday so that meant 50% off any glass of wine under 10 dollars, and bottle under 50. 

Our drinks took FOREVER. The server was really nice about it, but the bartender and kitchen were sllloooowwww. We ended up getting the deviled eggs to start, which had gin infused into them and bacon dust on top. I am personally not a fan of deviled eggs, but I gave them a shot (didn't like them) but Corey said they were just ok. He said the filling didn't have a lot of flavor and was sort of bland. I ordered the tomato soup (marinara?), and I had the strawberry salad, and Corey the Reuben. My salad had candied cinnamon walnuts, strawberries, and goat cheese with a champagne vinaigrette dressing (it looked better before I started eating it.. I forgot to take a picture).

 yummmm... It was delicious. A HUGE salad though. There was soo much lettuce. Probably like 2 salad express bags worth. I barely put a dent in it. But the real hit was Corey's Reuben and french fries. The FRIES.... omg delicious. They tasted like fresh, real, just cut and dropped in a fryer french fries. I kept stealing them :/ And his Reuben was awesome as well! The meat had so much flavor. It was fantastic. 

So the place definitely had it's positives, they need a little work, but that's expected with any new place. Hoping they'll eventually put burgers on their menu. 

After this we went to go hop in line to get into the show but it was like a mile long, so we dropped into Draft across from the amway to grab a drink really quick. That place is huge, and really nice. We went to the very back bar, and even though she was slammed the bartender got to us pretty quick. I had a ketel one dirty martini (I think the biggest one I've ever had) and Corey had a jack and diet.

 

Overall, we had a really fun time! We will probably be going back to both places another time. I hope you have enjoyed and Happy Halloween everyone!