And so begins the most wonderful time of the year...

This was one incredible weekend. I think this might actually have been the first free weekend, with no trips, drills or prior major commitments since we have been married and I must say that I really enjoyed it. So here is our Fall Date Day weekend in snapshots.

Saturday we slept in as late as we wanted to, which basically means we slept until I woke up and then jumped on Nic and woke him up. We got up, had cereal, got ready and made our way to Brookedale Farms Pumpkin Patch. Here are the pictures we took while sitting in the traffic waiting for the drawbridge to close :)

Holy canoli this place is so much fun. You trade in your keys for a pair of sheers and then you make your way through the patch looking for the perfect pumpkin to cut off the vine. And because we are who we are, we made our way up and down every lane looking for the perfect one. My personal favorite part of this pumpkin patch? The twin boys that picked up every pumpkin they saw and screamed "Its perfect!!! Its the perfect pumpkin!!!!" Oh man. We had some laughs about that one. Here's where we spent our Saturday.

We scoured the field and ended up with two pretty perfect pumpkins. It took many failed attempts at finding the right ones to finally land the big ones. The ones we had been waiting for. And we found them, let me tell you, we found them. Here are a few of the ones that we felt some connection to but didnt end up making the cut. 

After much deliberation and kicking a few pumpkins in the process, hehe, we finally ended up with the perfect pumpkins. Whom we affectionately named the Finkelsteins. Herman (my big guy's name), Henrietta (the one that Nic surprised me with a few weeks back, who already sits on our porch), and Harvey (Nic's nice little guy). Here's a picture of us with the winning pumpkin patch portion of our little pumpkin family.

Post pumpkin picking, you had the option to take a hayride around the farms, do the corn maze, enjoy the pumpkin playground or wait in line to weigh your pumpkin and enjoy the man canning popcorn, the Mennonite jellies, jams, syrups and salsa, which we bought one of, or pick out some smaller gourds and pumpkins.  We chose to just wait in line and ended up choosing a Mennonite syrup, Apple Cinnamon to be exact, and then weighed our pumpkins and headed back to the car. On the way home we had lunch at our favorite hole in the wall mexican place, helped our lovely friend Tianna move her new couch upstairs (always an adventure with the Yentzers :)), followed by some thrifting in the highest of standards (we landed our awkward Christmas sweaters in October, for the win!), some Marine Corps Ball dress shopping (still havent found a winner yet), and then came home and settled in for the night. Dinner was a festive part of the perfect fall date day as well!. We made pancakes to have with our fancy new syrup, and Nic, being the biscuit fanatic that he is, made pumpkin shaped biscuits to go with our fall themed day.

We watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! and called that the perfect end to our perfect day. It really was a great Saturday. Sunday wasnt so bad either. Our day ended with heading to Wal*Mart to price Christmas trees, and we ended up at the beach to look at the stars for a while. Then we actually went to Wal*Mart and made our way home, talked and reminisced about college for a while, and eventually ended the evening with pizza and The Incredibles in honor of our first date night over two years ago. It truly was the perfect married weekend. I had so much fun. I only hope that next weekend can top it. Not sure how it could. But Im sure... in some way shape or form... that it could. It will just take some careful planning and a whole lot of time spent together. 

I hope that you have enjoyed this Morris Moment, and here's to the beginning of the most wonderful time of the year... 

31 days until Thanksgiving, and getting to see my family for the first time in 3 months! :)

And 63 days until Christmas!!

Until next time...

So here's the latest...

So its been a little while since I've enlightened the world with my brilliance, so I figured since my house is clean, Nic's favorite corn muffins are in the oven, he is still on base and the reds are in the dryer, I would share the latest happenings in the Morris household. 

First, I have learned something about being married. I love sharing a closet with a boy. Now don't get me wrong, sharing a closet with Beka was brilliant because we just so happened to be the exact same size in everything so it meant that we both had twice the size of a wardrobe than we did when we moved in, but I look darn cute in a good bit of Nic's clothes. And seeing as baggy oversized clothes are very in right now, I am right on point there. And holy crap are they comfortable. His cardigans may just be my new favorite thing in the whole world, aside from him of course. His clothes are just one of the perks. 

BEKA IS ENGAGED!!!!! That is new and recent and wonderful in every way! I do recall her and I laughing during roommate bonding time last summer when we were talking about what we were gunna do after we graduated and I said that I would bet any amount of money that she would meet someone and get married shortly after Nic and I. Pay up Beka haha. I was completely right. I am so looking forward to sharing this amazing time in her life with her. I couldnt be happier or more honored to stand next her that day. It is sure to be beautiful. Beka was there to help with all of the insanity of planing our wedding and was standing with me that day, so to get to the same for her is a wonderful thing in every way. Here is a picture of our brilliance just to remind those of you who know her, and to give those of you who dont a frame of reference as to who this lovely individual is. 

Last weekend Nic and I made the 15 hour drive to Memphis, Tennessee to celebrate Grandma Vernita's  87th birthday. Normally, that wouldnt be any kind of surprise, seeing as we would do absolutely anything for our families, but the fun part was that no one knew that we were coming. Hehe we are sneaky. Okay, well actually Honey knew, but she kept our secret very well. So we hit the road on Thursday night around 8:30 when I got off of work and made the drive through the night to lovely Tennessee. We arrived shortly after 10:00am their time and instantly fell asleep haha. Once we took a lovely 4 hour nap, we began the hunt for Nic's mom and Desi. And let me tell you. Those two were not easy to track down. We were trying to not ruin the surprise, but we could not get them to tell us where they were. Finally, we enlisted the help of Uncle Mike. He didnt know we were there, but we needed help. So Uncle Mike tracked down their exact whereabouts and we made a mad dash for the Backyard Burger in Olive Branch. We ninja rolled our way into the restaurant, okay, not really, we walked in, but still we felt like ninjas, and we asked if anyone was sitting with them and then the screaming and hugging began haha. It just happened to be Marme's birthday, we didnt bring a gift, that was my fault, but I think we were a pretty good substitute to a card and a candle haha. We spent the next two days celebrating. We baked a cake for Grandma, hot tubbed with the cousins and my new sisters and we just loved on Grandma for a few days. Her reaction to us being there was just the sweetest thing. It truly made the drive worth it. She is a precious individual. We got to watch our wedding video with her which was awesome because she wasnt able to be there. And it was just truly an awesome time spent with family. This was the first time that I was there because I was family. I wasnt just Nic's girlfriend anymore, and I really really loved that. It was awesome to just get to be a Morris. It really meant the world to me. Here are a few pictures to catalog this trip

This week has just been bill paying, house cleaning and working. This is my favorite time of year. The smell of it. The crispness in the air. The change of the seasons. It makes me want to watch high school football. I love it so much. Im a little bummed because Im missing the Pumpkin Festival going on at home right now, but thats okay. Next year maybe. The look on everyone's faces when we walked in last weekend was worth more than the festival any day. I wouldnt trade those memories for anything.

And I think thats it. I gotta go get Nic's muffins out of the oven, so I hope that you have enjoyed this Morris Moment. Until next time...