Happy Halloween!

Love,

Mr. and Mrs. Baker Man

a favorite fall festivity {say that 10 times fast}

I love this time of year, Fall I mean. It doesn't last long around these parts, in fact, it snowed for the first time yesterday, but I cherish it while it's here. Saturday night we had a double date with some of our favorite friends, the Bradleys. The boys spent an hour at Winco trying to pick out pumpkins {apparently it isn't as easy as it looks folks} haha, while us girls attempted to watch the ultimate Halloween classic, Hocus Pocus, but instead stared at that cute little one the whole time. She is getting quite the personality. Add on that toothless grin and I was pretty much in heaven!

We made homemade pizza and those prepared sugar cookies that come in a roll with the ghost in the center. I hadn't had those in years! The husbands did most of the butchering carving while the wives provided parental supervision over the potential loss of a hand or two. Drills, sledgehammers, graters and all! Not to mention their lovely idea of lighting the stump on fire which involved a whole bottle of hairspray, rubbing alcohol, and a lighter. See what I mean about the supervision. Who knew pumpkin carving went to such heights. While the process was a bit unnerving at times, the pumpkins really did turn out great! Ours was the minion from Despicable Me. If you haven't seen it, shame on you. Beau and Mindy's was the disco ball. The picture does not do it justice for how cool it looked lit up! Besides the eating and the carving, there was a whole lot of laughter which was the best part in my book.

my fall decor

... and by fall i really mean halloween, thanksgiving, and fall all combined into one. but you would have never noticed if i didn't say something right?! ;)
yeah, don't answer that.

my person

Sometimes when you get married, you lose friends.
You move away from family and you find that your life is very different than it once was.
But somewhere, in the midst of all of that, a beautiful thing happens.

He becomes the one you tell your deepest secrets to.
He becomes the one you want to tell everything to first, both the good and the bad.
He becomes your favorite sleepover.
He becomes your comic relief.
He becomes your best friend.

He becomes the one who makes you chicken noodle soup and takes care of you when you are sick.
He becomes the one who greets you with a hug and a kiss when you get home from school or work.
He becomes the one you tell about your day over the dinner table.
He becomes the one you sit next to at church every Sunday.
He becomes the one you love more than anything else in the world.
He becomes the one who loves you for exactly who you are.
He becomes your family.

The beautiful things is, even if I lose a friend or live far away from my family.
He IS my best friend.
He IS my family.
He's my person.
and I wouldn't have it any other way.

5 things we've been up to

1 :: We've been, okay I've been, slowly trying to adjust to the longer hours that Nic's new job requires. I'll admit, this adjusting for me has not gone well. Insert I have now turned to bribery to get my husband to come home from work most days ... in the form of homemade bread sticks ... whatever it takes.

2 :: We decorated for "Fall" over a month ago. As in what was probably the last few weeks of Summer for us, we've been embracing what we are hoping to be the many weeks of Fall. Yeah, like that will ever happen. Look out! We'll be decorating for Christmas before you can even say Thanksgiving!

3 :: We spent all of last Sunday afternoon researching our graduation trip. It involves half our time spent at the most happiest place on earth meant for five year olds and the other half of the time with our toes in the sand and a giant strawberry daiquiri in hand {virgin of course}. Two of the most splendid combinations known to mankind. and that's all I'm gonna say about that.

4 :: We are currently addicted to How I Met Your Mother. Barney has made us bust a gut a time or two. Okay, that's an understatement.

5 :: We've also been looking at cars lately. Mine is on its last leg and before it dies completely and has absolutely no trade in value what-so-ever we need to find something else. Husband's ideal new car ... a smart car. In your dreams my love, in your dreams. I just told him that I'd like to see him live to be the age of oh, I don't know, at least 80! Those cars scare me.

the thing about being sick

...... there's not a lot you can do. And the crappy part about having a head and chest cold {besides the obvious}, is that the upper half of your body leaves you feeling like you want to die while your lower half is feeling just fine.
Restlessness leaves you with the following four options:
a :: sleep 
b :: watch an unhealthy amount several episodes of How I Met Your Mother
c :: down another bottle of cold syrup
or 
d :: online shop
and I'll have you know I participated in all three.
Basically it was a party around here.

Lets talk about option d. I'm realizing the unfortunate thing about online shopping is the lack of immediate gratification that option a, b, and sometimes c provide. I've had the same phone for the last five years now and it is currently missing the entire front button to both send and end calls, an entire row of keys is no longer lit up, and it shuts off any time I decide to open and close it. It really is a lovely piece of technology. So even though I was hopped up on meds, I did have a valid reason for the following purchases.

* back-ordered until October 18th *

* arriving no sooner than December 7th * 

GET OUT of town! Who are these people?!
................................

Excuse me while I go swoon over these pictures.

P.S. Today was better than the last four so lets hope I'm on the mend!

how i spent my weekend

It wasn't pretty. In fact, it was a whole bottle of cold syrup, several heaping trash cans of tissues, a chapped nose, and lack of sleep not pretty. I woke up Friday morning feeling slightly stuffy but I didn't think anything of it. We sleep with our window open and I'm used to the morning chill leaving me a little stuffed up. About an hour into teaching that morning, my head became the size of mountain if you know what I mean. Sinus pressure is the worst. I immediately dreaded the next two hours until I got home and spent the rest of the day in bed. That is pretty much where I've been ever since. I'm so thankful I had Nic to take care of me. He may not always have the cure but he comes pretty darn close with soup, heating pads, smoothies, and Netflix in bed with me. I don't know how I got so lucky.