Fall Fun

Tonight we had Adam and Jennifer over to carve pumpkins and make some oreo dessert balls. We are going to take the pumpkins to our church's fall festival that we're helping out with this Friday, so we're glad they came out alright!!

Here Adam and Brad are hard at work


Our pumpkin nearly complete and the seeds drying out


Both pumpkins comleted, and yes, we agree that their's turned out better! But, just so you know, they used a template and we free-handed it!




Here are our oreo dessert balls... or whatever you want to call them. It's just one whole package of oreos crushed finely and mixed with a whole package of cream cheese. So delicious and non-nutritious!! :)

Acceptance down... Housing to go...

Just wanted to give a quick update...

Wednesday evening I was accepted into the Masters of Public Health program at MU!! My emphasis is officially "Health Promotion and Disease Prevention." It was such a relief to finally get accepted, and now I'm much more excited about Columbia.

We really only need one more piece to fall into place before we can breathe a sigh of relief, and that's housing. Dee and I found out the hard way on Monday that there really aren't any options available to us for January. Thankfully, though, one pretty amazing option did open up and Brad and I are now frantically trying to get the paperwork together and faxed in today so we can get it before anybody else.

We'll keep you all updated, and hopefully we'll have some good news here within a few days!

Another Weekend Down

Another great weekend in Springfield is coming to a close. Only 14 weekends left before we start yet another new chapter in our lives... maybe when that times comes we'll actually be ready!

Brad and Adam (his friend that is in PT school) went for a hike and then out for BBQ Friday night... they got in some good "man" time! Then Saturday morning Brad and Michael went golfing and Brad shot his best round of golf ever - a 75! The best part for Brad happened to be who they were paired up to play with... you'll have to ask him about it because it's a pretty cool story (but too long for the blog!).

While they were out golfing, I was home cleaning and baking monster cookies. They came out really well... actually too well because Brad and I can't keep our hands off them! :) Then yesterday afternoon we went and saw the movie Fireproof with friends from class. Our church had set up a special showing of the movie at a theatre, and they ended up using 3 or so rooms to accommodate everyone who came out to see it! Once you got past some subpar acting (though Kirk Cameron was good) and overused cliches, the movie was actually really good and had a great message.

After the movie I headed to Leslie's for girls night to watch Made of Honor and eat cookies, and Brad went out with the guys to a par 3 course for another 9 holes of golf.

Today has been a great lazy Sunday... naps, football, and well that's about it! Actually Brad is out cleaning out and gasing up the vehicles, and I'm going to write my essay. Dee, I'm really sticking by that Oct 1 deadline... that means I WILL have my essay done when you and Johnie are here Wednesday!

Hope you all had a great weekend too!