Poured new patio in back and the middle window has since become a door!
Cooking class on Parisian Macaroons. Beautiful and delicious,
Celebrated Mom's birthday with a cork and canvas class in Anamosa. Great fun - she's got talent!
Tabor Wine Festival - celebrating our birthdays.
Fantastic cooking class with author Tamar Adler in October.
Got to walk around the NewBo market and pick out all of our ingredients for the class. So much fun and I learned a lot! Her book is wonderful I highly recommend it if you're interested in cooking.
Dustin's sister Dena is pregnant and due next week! We are SO excited! In addition to that my lovely girlfriend Ashley (above) is due in Feb. Flew out to Oregon where her parents live for her baby shower. This is her loot!
On October 30th, Dustin asked me to marry him. :-)
Had a great fall party (albeit a little chilly) the first week in November. This is the awesome fireball my brother sent to us for our birthdays.
Taking down the garden - no easy task.
Got a truck load of compost tilled in and we're ready for next spring.
Beautiful birdhouse built by my dad.
Trip to Ft. Collins, CO to spend Thanksgiving with John at his house.
Ready for the holidays.
Some final highlights not pictured - So much fun to see Dena, Joe and Juliet this October when they came back to visit one last time before the baby comes. Little Gavin should be showing his beautiful face next week and Dustin and I couldn't be more excited to greet him.
Dustin's Grandma Bev came and stayed with us for a week. It's been a crazy busy time for us (Dustin especially as he's working on his MBA through night classes at U of I) but we really enjoyed getting to spend some time with her. We're heading up to spend some Christmas-y time with the Sults before Rhonda (Dustin's mom) heads out to be with her new grand baby. Hard to compete with that. :-)
Hope you are all having a wonderful and peace-filled holiday season. I feel extremely blessed and thankful for my friends and family. Blessings to you all and thanks for stopping by my blog. ~Cheers.
