simple night complex pumpkins

This story does not include many photos. It does not include a bunch of people laughing, hugging, or fake smiling for the camera. No This story involves two people who are madly in love spending a well deserved free night of pumpkin carving. No friends, no gimmicks just us, The Lancasters. We haven't had the time to do anything just me and him so we took the advantage of pumpkin carving and made it a full nights event. Dan and I love our friends dearly, we couldn't be more lucky when it comes to friends and family, But sometimes we get caught up in going with friends every weekend. Spending every free minute with people and hanging out. This year pumpkin carving was simple, and it was Awesome, I have to admit we do a pretty good job laughing and entertaining ourselves. anyways here are our pumpkins for this year. The turned out pretty good.

Dan's is the Pumpkin Scarecrow and Mine is the Skeleton Face.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Blogging about Stuff

I just got home from work and Dan just headed to Dallas for a 2nd interview with an oil company, so I am home all alone just waiting to head off to mutual. I don't think I told you but I was called into the young women's. Its great I love the girls, but about that later. I thought that this would be a good time to blog about my first adventure home. You don't have to read this first of all because its mostly just me reminiscing about my trip, second there are no pictures, and well there isn't a third so moving on.

I flew into Salt lake on Wednesday. The flights were awesome, I had all three seats to myself so I was able to lay down. my parents picked me up and we went to the hotel room. We did get dinner at California pizza. I must say it was so great to see my parents again. I know it has only been like 2 months and I am going to see them again in like 3 weeks but it just felt good. My cousin Spencer got married the next day.

Thursday: so we met up with my sisters and hubby's and went to the wedding. After the wedding we drove home. Mich came with sager which was great to be able to spend time with her.

Friday: was spent jammed in a car driving to raftriver for the reception. 9 bodies in a 7 passenger car doesn't feel so good when its for 3 hours. But we made it and survived!

Saturday: was general conference so what else is there to do besides shop! we loaded in the car once again and made the trip to Idaho falls for a little girl time. we had lunch and shopped at mini Bizzar which is one of our favorite places to shop.

Sunday: was a lazy but great day. we listened to conference which was really awesome this session. we ate so much and played some games. mostly mall madness because its my favorite game. Turns out my dad is really good at that game ha ha.

Monday: Mich went home, I had breakfast with our friend Adam and his girlfriend, Lunch with my mom, Mich before she left and my Dad and then Dinner with my best friend from high school Megs. It was so much fun and so good to see her. Even though we live forever away from each other, when ever we get together we just pickup right where we left off. We were at Applebees for about 3 hours just talking and catching up. it was really fun.

Tuesday: was a filled day also. I had lunch with the girls who I used to work with. Its always good to see them and catch up. Then Dinner was spent with my two very good friends Christy and Samantha. My friend Samantha is pregnant, ha she beat me, but we will catch up. So it was good to see both of them and here how there lives were going.

Wednesday: came to quickly. It was time to fly home. My dear sweet mother drove me to the airport and we said our good byes. We didn't cry I was very proud of ourselves. So I flew home and got off the plane and saw my perfect husband with a bouquet of flowers.

I am home now. I will admit that I was a lot more homesick this go around then I was when I first moved. I am much better now just a day or two of filling sick to my stomach, but things are now good. We couldn't be more blessed to have such wonderful parents and friends to support us. Dan and I are so lucky to have found some good friends out here in Texas, we just hope the good fortune keeps coming our way.

We dehydrate things!

Turns out dehydrating foods is the best most entertaining thing! One Sunday Dan and I are sitting in sacrament, ya know just chillin, and we look over and a little girl had a fruit leather. Dan turns to me and says that looks really good. We both instantly thought well lets get a dehydrator. I mean why not buy our own fruit, blend it and make a huge mess and sit and wait for 4 days to get fruit leather instead of walking down the street and get a box for $3.00. Oh no, here, us Lancaster's do it the cool way, and that's the dehydration way. we can make our own fruit leather. so we buy a dehydrator. BEST THING EVER. We have so much fun dehydrating foods. So far everything has turned out. Its great too because we get to add things to our food storage.

The dehydrator has the most soothing sound, practically saying "Everything is going to be ok once you have some of my delicious dried Cinnamon apples in you". I really think electronics and I have a connection. Dan made Terriyaki jerky and it was way good. Heck with the store brand our jerky frikin rocks!

Weekend Birthday for Dan, BIG 25!!

Well Hello, I feel bad because I haven't posted in a while but things have been a little crazy. but I am not here to talk about that today, no I am here to talk about my amazing husband's birthday. THE BIG 25! ha ha some of you will say wow that is still really young, and some will say wow thats old,(that would be Dan) but I just tell him that he has accomplished a lot being only 25, I told him he is a head of the game compared to a lot of people so it made him feel a little bit better, he tells me now all we need is a kid and things would be perfect, so we will see.

This big 25 birthday was not just celebrated one day but THREE days. Here is how the weekend went. On Thursday we went over to some of our friends house to have a Dinner for Dan. We were going to do it on his actual birthday, but well ya know things come up. ha ha anyways so we celebrated with our friends Rob and Lauren and just hung out all night it was really fun. Friday(September 18th) was Dan's actual birthday. Of course he had school all day, so I spent the day making a cake, decorating the apartment and getting his birthday gifts bought and wrapped. We went out to eat at one of Dan's new favorite restaurants and then came back for the rest of his birthday. I sang happy birthday to him, and gave him his cake. He feels pretty special because his favorite cake is chocolate forest cake, and I hate chocolate cake so he gets to eat the whole thing by himself, and he did!

Then what better way to make a guy feel young again? Take him to a rock punk concert where he can bob his head and jam out. Luckily I liked the bands too so it worked out for the both of us. We went to a Blink 182 concert in Dallas. Asher Rob, All American Rejects, Fall out Boy, and Blink 182 played. It was SO MUCH FUN! Dan and I are lucky to like the same type of music. I feel kinda guilty because I am in like the biggest Country music State and I hate country music, but you just keep that kind of information to yourself.

So we went to this concert, we were surrounded by weed smokers, and basically the whole night was awesome. I have never been so grateful for fresh air when we got out of the fair grounds. Dan had a great time which of course was the most important part. It was a great 25th birthday for Dan, and I can't wait for the next one.

These are just some pics of Dan's Birthday and the Concert.

About to open Presents!

The balloon I got him said "So many Candles, So little Cake" ha ha because he is old!

Uh, I can't remember what he is unwrapping but him just unwrapping gifts

Black Forest Cake! YEP I MADE IT ALL BY MYSELF

Singing happy birthday!

Getting ready for the concert to start. We were lucky because its been so rainy, but it actually turned out to be a nice night.

Fall out boy. I didn't get any of All American Rejects. I wish I did though, he was butt drunk and he did the show in nothing but blue skimpy underwear it was so funny!

Resting between band shows

Blink 182. They were really good live! Except for all the swearing. ha ha that got a little old

A Man and His Bride

This past week Dan and I flew up to Canada to celebrate the Marriage of Dan's brother Dave and his Bride Vanessa. This was a very special occasion, fist because Dave is the last to get married so the Lancaster family is complete and it has been almost a year since we saw his other brother Will and his wife Jess. Plus they are the only ones with kids on this side of the fam so its good to see the nieces.

Flying up to Canada was long! We had to stop in California, and this airport is messed up! we had to leave the airport completely to go to our other terminal. So we had to go through security again the problem was that when we first printed our tickets mine didn't print for the transfer so I had no ticket to get back through security. We finally settled everything out, thank goodness for Dan and his patience. and we were able to land safe and sound in Calgary. Customs always takes forever so about 10:00 we were able to get to Dan's parent's house and have fun.

The wedding was Friday, so we hopped in the car and drove 2 1/2 hours down and 2 1/2 hours back in one day. It was a long day in the car but it was worth it. Their wedding was great, and they were sealed by the temple president, so it was really good. I love temple sealings.

The next day was the reception but the boys had to be there by one for pictures so we got in the car again and drove another 2 1/2 hours up to Edmonton where the reception was. We spent the day taking photos and being with the Bride and Groom. We spent the night in Edmonton, woke up the next morning, went to the gift opening party and then headed back to Calgary. By the time the wedding party was over we were all really sick of cars. But we are so happy to have Dave married and I have a new sister in law which is awesome. We flew home Monday morning and got home about 1:00am. We read the tickets wrong, we thought we left at 2:55, but the flight really left at 1:55 so we had like 20 minutes to catch our flight and of course going through security was a nightmare. I was the "randomly" selected to be scanned and patted down, and have my bags checked. That was great. I was standing in front of the line being scanned and have my boobs grabbed by some lady. I was trying really hard not to laugh, but it was kinda funny. By the time that was over we had 5 minutes until our plane left. We were literally running to the plane. We made it just in the nick of time. It was so close. We made it home and we both are super tired. We counted and we spent over 34 hours traveling in 3 days. I never want to get on a plane again.ha ha To bad I am going to be on one every month from here until Christmas.

Going to Rexburg

NEW YORK

Thanksgiving

Christmas

Like I said a lot of flying, but its all for fun.

anyways here are some pictures that were taken from the wedding.

We did becky's hair for the wedding the next day!

Coming out as husband and wife

The Lancaster family is complete, Now we just need to start getting some children involved

Dan congratulating Dave on his big day

Me and the Bride

Ring Power

Parents of the bride and groom

Lancaster girls(All married in)

It was kind of windy that day

Brothers

Groomsmen also, Dan always strikes this pose so they boys were making fun of him

The wedding Cake

Cutting the Cake

After their entrance

These are just some pictures that I was playing around with. Each color of tie matched with a bridesmaids dress.

What we've been doing...

I hate when my blog goes to long without being written on. So I thought I would do a little update on what has been going on with Dan and I. The last few weeks have been crazy and fun. We have been basically having a month long vacation which has rocked. Dan and I have been setting him up for school, hanging out with friends, and of course swimming. ha ha its been a good few weeks. For some reason the missionaries love Dan, so he has been going on splits a lot with them. I am excited because we get to feed them, and for some reason missionaries just melt your heart, ha ha.  We set up Dan's office at school. It was fun because we got to basically spend the day at Best Buy getting him a computer, printer, and all that jazz. It was really fun. We have been so blessed with Dan's scholarships. They have helped out a lot. We went to our wards chili cook off which was awesome. Texans really know how to cook some chili, as far as Idahoans, not so much ha ha but it was still fun! 

But now Dan has started school and as you can tell I really have nothing to do besides blog and change my template, but its all fun and games. really games, I am obsessed with Text Twist. ha ha. Dan is already rockin it at school, and well I have to brag he got another scholarship! I know two days into school and he already is climbing the master ladder. Ha ha he is so smart. He is so excited about the work that he is doing, and it just makes me love him all that much more! anyways thats really all of it in a nut shell. I have been looking for jobs already, but can't apply because of the wedding but hopefully after the wedding  I will find a job before I go to crazy, Even though I must admit I really really am enjoying the time off. anyways I will update more when things come along. Tootals

Settled in

OK, OK I am updating my blog. Gosh people are pushy! ha ha just kidding. I have been getting requests to update on Texas and put pictures of our apartment. I first must report that things here are actually going well. Dan and I have been figuring out our new city, and have learned that there is a lot to do here. I was excited to see how big the city actually was and that I can find my way around without any accidents. We are both enjoying the time off, just doing odds and ends, and doing alot, and I mean a lot of swimming. We basically have been living at the pool for the past week. Basically because its the only thing you can do in 105 degree weather. Its been fun. We went to church on sunday and it is going to be great. People are so friendly and fun. I think our ward will be our life savors while being in Texas. I know that we will make good friends here.  Things are actually pretty good. I am adjusting well to Texas and its slowly growing on me in a good way... anyways I have posted some pictures of our apartment. we are still working on the final adjustments but all in all it has come together well and it feels like home. 

*The entry way to our apartment #2203

* Keep walking and you run into our little black shelf, A perfect place for my button jar

*Our living room. We have a lot of windows which I am very grateful for, it makes the apartment feel so open and fresh. Its great.

*In the corner of our living room is the desk... Well not much to say here. Kinda boring

* The next room that we walk into is the kitchen. Its spacious which we like, because we both like to be in the kitchen cooking, and it didn't work to well in our last apartment. so its nice having a little more walk way. 

* This is a better shot of the kitchen. Through the door right there is to the washer and dryer, which we will be able to pick up tomorrow! SUper excited for that! the door right next to the washer and dryer is our pantry. Pantry... Space....Love. We also have a lovely wine rack to the left. Its kinda hard to see, but if anyone has any ideas of what I could do with this wine rack please let me know. Because its just wasted space right now, and it bugs me. if you walk back you run into the guest bathroom door. Its nice because there is an entry from the guest bedroom also, which our guests will like. ha ha

* off the right, right off of the bar is our dinning room. Like I said a lot of windows. That door opens up to balcony. 

Ah. the bedroom, where the magic is made. Ba ha ha just kidding its all over the apartment..;) anyways here is the bedroom. Its not all the way done yet but its a working progress. We each have our own walk in closets which is nice, all our clothes actually fit without having to put them in boxes. Then to the left of the door is our bathroom. 

I just realized its kinda messy, sorry about the swimsuits we just got done swimming and they are drying. so here is the bathroom. Its a good size, we love the bathtub.

*The guest bedroom, where the guests will sleep. This room is also a working progress. We are figuring it out though. Its getting there. Hopefully soon we can turn this into a nursery. but who knows.. Just so you know that little stuffed dog is supposed to represent the real dog izzie! my mom gave it to me before I left so that I could have a reminder of little izzerd. ha ha long story there.

*This is the guest bathroom. Haven't gotten a shower curtain yet, but we are planning an Ikea shopping trip here in the next little bit so hopefully we get one there. 

* Then This is the view from the balcony. Its so green here. I am actually surprised to see how green a full of life it is here in Texas. Its actually really pretty. 

So that ends the tour of the Lancaster house this last little picture is not part of the tour but its such a cute little cherry. Dan and I came home saturday night, and weren't ready for bed yet so we pulled out our fabulous game of Scrabble and had a big bowl full of cherry's. I found this cherry and that it was so cute. It had a little leaf and everything. It really was the perfect little cherry. 

I sure hope you enjoyed your time here at the Lancaster blog and I hope to find you reading my blog posts again. 

LOVES....