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We had a few people over last night to celebrate the scary holiday. We decked out the basement with some spooks and plenty of food! Had a best costume contest - Lady GaGa (Leigh) won. :)We also had 3 contestants play for a prize by seeing who could eat the most of an apple that was hanging from the ceiling AND with no hands in less than 1 minute. It was hilarious to watch!! 1 kid went right for the wall and positioned the apple between the wall and his teeth. He ate half the apple in 30 seconds - literally half!! Karen and Jared were the other 2 playing and neither one got a single bite just a couple of teeth marks haha!

I ended up with 6 trick-or-treaters - that's 2 more than last year!! I know we are still fairly new to the neighborhood, but maybe after 2 years of NOT handing out apples and allowing fist fulls of candy to be had by each kid they'll realize the Dunn's are worth a stop!

Obie was beyond pissed off that we put this on him. Eventually I took the vampire cape off and he just wore the bow tie. He sat in this position forever and just glared at me while I took a few pictures.

Best costume!

Too late for wedding talk???

Love this picture!! It's a blow-up contender (blow-up contenders are pictures that could potentially be blown up and framed for our house haha)

This one is my favorite of Tim.

Tim and I had a wonderful time at the wedding!! I was really happy with the way things turned out. Before the wedding I had pictured the way things would look and tried to imagine something going wrong, but to my surprise almost nothing went wrong and it truly looked as I had pictured it!! I did find out that the bar upstairs was charging more than the bar downstairs which kind of irritated me, but I've decided to just let it go and not throw a stink! My co-workers have loved looking at the pictures in the book Colleen had made for us. I've looked along with people at work so I've probably gone through the book no less than 30 times! I haven't thought much about what I'm going to order for pictures. I'm not sure how to choose which ones we'll blow up ... I think our house will be full of blown up wedding photos haha! We'll look like we are in love with ourselves.

I think we need to be in a magazine or something!! For real!

Only 1 person noticed I was missing my veil. I had almost forgot ... Karen, my dad and I were waiting by the door and Karen goes "where's your veil" I say "UPSTAIRS" so she runs to get it!! I didn't spend that money to NOT wear it for all of 30 minutes haha!!

Acadia National Park

Karen and I went to Acadia yesterday - we spent about 2 1/2 hours hiking/sightseeing. We hiked up Cadillac Mountain. It was beautiful!! I love this time of year - the smells and the colors. It was a cool day, but perfect for hiking. Once we were at (near) the top it was super windy, but the majority of the hike the trees are surrounding you so you never even notice the breeze. I slipped once - no major injuries. We lost the map at the top because of the wind, luckily the trails are well marked - haha :)

We both had a great time. The 2 of us hadn't done anything together for awhile - since I'd been spending so much time planning for the wedding. We passed a winery on our way down and thought we might check that out sometime soon!

It's all over...

The wedding was amazing!! I had a great time and I feel like everyone else did too. I'm beyond anxious to see the pictures Colleen and Nicole took!! SERIOUSLY, I'm totally impatient about it!! haha Tim and I had a great time on our honeymoon. Nothing was rushed, there was no set plan (that's a surprise since I'm a planner), we just really enjoyed being away together. We were already talking about going back for our 1 year anniversary before we even got home. We had some great food and ate at some really awesome restaurants - the 50's Sci-Fi, 50's Diner (both in Universal) and Yak & Yeti (in Animal Kingdom) were our favorites!! I go back to work tomorrow. I'm not really looking forward to it, but I can't wait to tell everyone about the wedding and the honeymoon - I probably won't spend much time "working". AND we went shopping and I bought a new outfit - totally hot stuff - for work. PLUS I got my hair cut today AND as Tim says , I've got more diamonds haha! I wish I had some wedding pictures to take with me, but I don't... (joking) haha! I'm ordering my honeymoon pictures tonight. I bought an album to put them in while we were in Disney.
We are going to watch the wedding video tonight. My step-dad did a homemade video and I'm excited to watch it. I think it'll be nice to have come 20+ years down the road. I'll have some extras made up if anyone wants one. :)

<3 Mrs. Dunn

Overnight at my Mom's

Since Tim's bachelor party was last night I figured I should probably stay far far away haha! I spent the night I my mom's. My stepdad was working so we had a fun girl night just hanging out, talking and watching movies. They live on Little Pushaw Lake and I caught the tail end of the sunset. It's really nice out there - very quiet except for the creepy Loons!

My stepdad (Lew) made me breakfast which was a nice treat since nobody ever makes me breakfast (throwing a poptart on the table for me to take to work does not count Tim). I came home around 1:00 to find the house relatively clean and in order! Nothing broken and no mysterious stains to get out of the carpet! :) Now the bachelor/ette parties are behind us it's time for the REAL party! WOOT*

so much life happening!

Last weekend was my bachelorette party. Karen surprised me with a limo that picked us up at my house and we had it until 1:00 a.m. We went to the Ground Round for dinner, then drove around for a bit (with a quick stop at Shaw's so one of the girls could buy herself some alcohol for the limo) then we went to Pete & Larry's which we were the CENTER of attention while we were there! Lots of army boys haha! Then after we finished off the night at Barnaby's. I had a great time - by no means was I drunk at the end of the night. One thing I'm NOT is a heavy drinker! :)

So the wedding is in a week - Umm, I know, holy crap right? Tomorrow I'm going to the Muddy Rudder to talk about napkins, seating, check out the lighting (a last minute assignment from Colleen and Nicole), and confirm the food I've selected. I also need to go to Frank's to pay for the rest of the cake. I'm going to call the florist to confirm the delivery of the flowers. I've got to buy a cake knife and server, table numbers, and I think that's it. I'm still finishing up the music - I need a song to dance to with my Dad. Amongst all this wedding stuff I need to grocery shop and get a few snacks made up before Tim's friends get here. This will be a busy weekend!!

The Basement Room is DONE!!!

Last night Tim and I finished up putting the trim on in the basement. The carpet was installed this afternoon and we've been moving stuff downstairs since! :) I'm excited because that means I get to have my own room now too! Although, hopefully it won't be mine too long because it'll need to be converted into a nursery! :) It's really great to finally have the room finished (I say finished, but the window needs to be framed in and we would like to make a box around the pipe that runs across the ceiling to make it look better - those are minor things at this point). Tim did an awesome job figuring things out on his own. He under estimates himself sometimes, but once he starts doing it he realizes he CAN do it!

So now it's just a matter of getting everything organized which I'm sure he'll have most of that done by tonight. My room on the other hand will probably be a little bit slower of a process.