Happy Halloween!

Fall is a great time of the year! I love the colors, smells, and traditions. I decorated our mantel this year for fall and think it turned out great (with some help from my mom) and wanted to share.

Chad is at work today so I spent the afternoon trying out a new recipe...

Goblin's Orange Popcorn from tasteofhome.com

I had all the ingredients in the pantry and it was so easy to make! All you need is:

4 quarts popped popcorn (2 bags of microwave popcorn) 1/2 cup butter, cubed 1 cup sugar 6 tablespoons light corn syrup Dash salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 12 drops yellow food coloring 4 drops red food coloring Directions:

Place popcorn in a very large bowl. In a small saucepan, melt butter. Stir in the sugar, corn syrup and salt. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; cook 5 minutes longer, stirring occasionally.

Remove from the heat. Stir in vanilla and food coloring.

Pour over popcorn; toss to coat. Transfer to a large baking pan coated with cooking spray.

Bake at 250° for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. Spread on waxed paper to cool.

This is such a tasty and easy to make treat. I will be making this at Christmas time, using red and green food coloring, for treats and gifts. Carving our pumpkin a few nights ago and making this treat today brings excitment as I think about how this time next year we will have our own little "goblin" to share these traditions with, to take to the pumpkin patch, and to dress in a costume and take Trick-or-Treating.

Mr. Otis

Happy Halloween!

Chad and I were finally able to spend an evening together without having to do anything specific. Since we have a baby in our lives now I wanted to begin a tradition to pick out pumpkins to carve every year. So we went to the store to pick out our pumpkin and came home to carve him. I haven't carved a pumpkin since college and I can't believe Chad and I have never done this together!

It was a lot of fun deciding who our pumpkin was going to become.

Before Poor Guy! This makes Chad gag so I had to dig out the insides Chrissy was wondering what in the world we were doing All the Davis men stick out their tongues when having to concentrate on something! :) Here's Otis! I think Chad did a great job! Chad's mom gave me a recipe for roasted pumpkin seeds and they are sooooooooooo good!

We cannot wait until Halloween comes around next year and we will be able to dress our little one in a cute costume and share with him/her this fun tradition.

The Blind Side

Several months ago Chad and I came across this preview, but there was no release date for when the movie would come out. We just found out it opens the Friday before Thanksgiving and we are so excited to go see it. It seems like such a great story...the preview alone makes me tear up (I don't think it's because of the hormones). We can't wait!

End of the First Trimester

It is so hard to believe I am just over 12 weeks and already into my second trimester! Some days it seems like the pregnancy is creeping along slowly, but sometimes it seems to go by in a flash. The biggest development this week with the baby is that he/she has reflexes and is also making sucking movements with his/her mouth. I am not as nauseous as I have been and woke up Saturday with a little baby bump! My mom was over at our house this weekend so we went to look at fabrics for possible nursery colors and themes and found some cute designs. Now we just need to know if the baby is a boy or girl and we can get moving on these details. I am so excited about the second trimester because the baby will be growing so much more, I'll be able to feel him/her move, and we will get to find out the gender. Lots of fun stuff this trimester. On another note...I am still working on the post about how we told our families. We do not have internet at home and this has hindered me from posting as much as I'd like. We are finally getting internet installed next week! We love you all!

11 Weeks

I am 11 weeks today. Right now the baby is just over 1 1/2 inches long (about the size of a fig) and is almost fully formed. The baby is already kicking and stretching and occasionally has the hiccups. Although it seems like time is zooming by and I am wanting to savor this pregnancy, I cannot wait until I can feel the baby move, which the books say will be another month or so. Although the doctor won't do another sonogram until I am 18-20 weeks, we are hoping to have a sonogram done at 15 weeks to see if we can tell what this little baby is...boy, girl, or still a "gingerbaby". I am still "car sick" most of the day and exhausted 24/7. My blood pressure is still a little high, but the doctor didn't seem too worried about it at this stage of the pregnancy. We go back to our doctor on the 14th for a check up. I am working on a post to share with you the stories of how we told our families about the pregnancy so check back soon! Love to you all!