Weekend of fun!

I have to admit that it can get pretty lonely and boring being a hunter's widow. In fact, Nick is out hunting right now. Oh, well! At least it gives me time to post new entries. If Nick were home all the time, you'd never get to hear from me. I got to have Nick home this last weekend and I was so sick of being in the apartment so I treated Nick and I to a fun weekend away from home. I was originally going to surprise him with a trip to Alaska but the flights were full so I took the second best place in the world (where I've always wanted to go) and we went to England instead!!!

Okay, so maybe we didn't actually go to the England across the ocean but we stayed at the Destinations Inn in Idaho Falls in their England suite. It was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures of our way cool room..

When you walk into the room there's a drawbridge that we had to walk up to get to the rest of the room.

We had sparkling apple cider waiting for us. Yummy!

This was the coolest part of the whole room. First you see a regular bookshelf...

...then it opens to a secret passageway...

...which leads to the bathroom! So cool!

We drove to look at the temple across from the river. This is close to the spot where Nick proposed to me.

The next day we were going to go to the Tautphas Park Zoo, but they were closed. What in the world?!? We noticed this huge pumpkin patch on the same road, though so we decided to stop. It was so awesome! I've never been to a pumpkin patch before. We found some really good pumpkins to carve and don't worry, we'll be sure to take some pictures once they're done.

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins, and more pumpkins!! They probably had about 10 acres of just pumpkins!

We stopped in Blackfoot on our way home and went out to dinner with my mom and dad. We went to a Mexican restaurant called El Mirador. Yum! I would definitely recommend it. Make sure whatever your order is "al a creme".
We both had a very enjoyable time. Who knew a trip to England could be so fun?

The weekend wasn't over yet, though. Nick had church meetings all day on Sunday so I spent my time finishing up some projects that I started at Enrichment last week.

This is my countdown calendar for Christmas. It's on the back of a cookie sheet with cute magnets for each day.

See? Underneath the magnets are fun things to do for the day. Too bad I got a non-stick cookie sheet, though. My days are already falling off. I'll have to see if I can find some better glue to fix it.

And this is my nativity. Isn't it cute? I think so.

Doing these projects makes me wish it was Christmas already and it's not even Halloween yet. I guess that's probably a good thing, though because I'm nowhere near being ready for Christmas. There's so much to do! I look forward to all of it though!