Halloween Fun!

We've had a busy couple of weeks in the Goins' household! I've been swamped at school and we have been on the go outside of work too! It's nice that we have a relaxing weekend to just do nothing!

Last weekend my Mom came in and we did lots of shopping! She really wanted to buy me our car seat (even though it could be years before we need it :)!! So we did some research and finally picked one.... The Chicco Key Fit 30! I really had wanted a Graco Snugride because it was like the top rated one for safety. However when we looked at it at the store I was very disappointed. It seemed so cheap and I wasn't impressed. I have had a lot of friends use Chicco and Allen and I are both familiar with how to put the base in etc... cuz of all our friends! HA! I really liked an orange and gray one but it only was available in the up to 22 lbs seat. I was so afraid our baby would be 22 before they could turn around and I don't wanna have to buy ANOTHER infant seat :) So we went with this one since it goes up to 30 lbs......

I LOVE the colors and we ordered it online and it was here in like 3 days!! Good grief!! Also we missed out on an awesome deal. If we had ordered it the day before we could have gotten the carseat stroller combo for really cheap! Oh well, guess we'll have to buy that one later on. I'm very excited to have this though. I figure if an adoption happens fairly quick we will be ready. We have a car seat, a pack n play, and a few outfits. We'll just need to buy diapers and formula and be ready to go :) It's so exciting just to dream. I've waited for this for so many years and I'm praying our dreams come true real soon.

Last night we had a Halloween party with my girls from school. We planned this several months ago and were so excited about dressing up. Our husbands, on the other hand were not. More specifically, my husband :) I bought us Fred and Wilma Flintstone costumes to wear. Up until the day before Allen was adament that he hated dressing up and didn't want to wear it. Well, the morning of, I finally gave in and told him he didn't have to dress up! I just wanted him to come and to have a good time :) So last minute he decides he wants to go as Cru Jones from the 80's BMX movie RAD(which I might add, NOBODY has ever heard of HA!) So he cut a gray sweatshirt sleeves off, tied a red bandana around his leg, and wore some converse shoes. Needless to say he got asked all night who the heck he was??

  What do you think? Does he sort of look like him? :)                      
Anyway, Amanda's husband, Matt was sick so he wasn't able to come. We ended up picking her up so she could ride with us!                                                                                        

Wilma & 20's Flapper

Amanda's son, Noah wanted in the picture! BTW, coolest kid ever;)

My first grade girls, Wilma, Alice, Mary Poppins & 20's Flapper

Me and Allen

Acting Silly

Group Shot

I definitely feel like I went back in time 10 years! They had the party at Emily's husbands work. He works in Market Square and they invited a ton of college and grad students! Allen and I were by far the oldest there! How weird is that?? I hate getting old :) Oh well, it was a fun night and I love dressing up! We are already planning our Ugly Sweater Christmas Party!! We may dress up as Christmas Vacation characters...watch out Cousin Eddie here we come!!!!

Fall Pictures and Pumpkins!!

This weekend Vanessa, Adam, and sweet Hannah came to town. We saw them for a bit on Friday but then went to dinner and to see the movie Courageous with some friends. What a GREAT movie! Bring some tissue though :) On Saturday we went to Chick-fila and Toys R us so Allen's parents could buy Hannah a riding toy. They got her the Cozy Coupe Car! She loved it :) After that we took some fall pictures. We need some for our adoption profile but also I like to use a Fallish picture for our Christmas card. I think they turned out pretty good. Here are a few:

Our sweet boy

Just love my hubby :)

And I'm pretty sure he loves me :)

My favorite!!

Hannah, Vanessa, and Me

Group Shot

Hannah LOVES her Uncle Allen!! She is always staring at him :)

Sweet family pic

I know this is sideways...I can't figure out how to turn it but I thought it'd get a laugh! Allen loves his BMX bike!

Sunday afternoon we got together with my girls from school and their hubbies and dogs at Amanda's house. We grilled out and carved/painted pumpkins. It was sooo much fun!

The girls

Lola the bulldog :)

Working on the G

The Minardo's

The Clawson's

Savannah

The Mallery's

Me and Missy

Allen, me and our pumpkins

The girls and pumpkins plus Noah!

Even the dogs had a good time!!

Sorry that was a lot of pictures! Hope everyone is enjoying their fall!!

Fall Break

Well my fall break is quickly coming to an end :( I have had a really nice time though just relaxing all week. Today I had lunch with a sweet girl from my Sunday School class. We talked for 3 hours afterwards!! Mainly teacher/baby talk! She is pregnant with her 2nd boy! We are going on a double date tomorrow night with our hubbies to eat dinner and go see Courageous! Last night we went to the Hood Hoedown! This is an event Scott, a youth pastor at another church, puts on. They have hay rides, square dancing in a barn, riding the bull and a bonfire. Everybody dresses up in their best country attire! Unfortunately we don't own cowboy boots or hats :( We had a good time catching up tho!

Our sweet friends Scott and Stephanie :)

 Funny story about them...Allen and I both knew them before we met each other! I was going to church with them and Allen had done YOKE, a youth ministry with them a few years before. They got married in July 2005 and we both attended their wedding, separately! (This is 3 months before we were introduced). We never even knew each other at the wedding :) Who knew we would end up getting married! I love when neat stories end up that way and you can see God's divine plan in the works before you even knew about it! I am hoping one day our adoption/baby story will be like that!!

After my lunchdate today I came home to get Hank and took him for a walk down by the Clinch River. The leaves are gorgeous right now and its so peaceful down by the river.

I tried to get one of both of us!!

And he LOVES to hang his head out the window now :)

This weekend Adam, Vanessa, and sweet Hannah are coming in to visit! We haven't seen them since her birthday party in August. She has started walking just this week so I can't wait to see how much she has grown. Here are a few pics of her at the beach a few weeks ago.

We are going to take some family pictures for our adoption profile while they are in this weekend! I cannot believe she is already over a year old....seems like yesterday we were meeting her for the first time.....

 

Just happened to look back at my blog archive and I have officially been blogging for ONE YEAR!! My first post was October 13th last year :) 

Yard Sales and Paperwork

                                                     Happy Wednesday!

Isn't this the cutest thing ever? I got it at Ross for 3.99!! I love cute things for cheap :)

I'm on Fall Break this week and have pretty much done nothing. It's been nice although it would be nice to take a vacation sometime. Right now all our extra money has to go toward the adoption. Speaking of that I sat down last night and knocked out the autobiography and discussion questions. It is very frustrating to have to answer some of these questions. Of course we are prepared to be parents and are going to love our child unconditionally! Why wouldn't we? :) There are people out there popping out kids left and right who have no business being parents and yet we are the ones having to answer a thousand questions...just a little annoying. But it will all be worth it when we bring our sweet baby home!

On Saturday Allen and I got up early and went to a bunch of yard sales. We weren't looking for anything in particular, although we need a kitchen table and I had my eye on some baby stuff. Allen has become interested in BMX bikes so he also was looking for anything related to that. We walked away with a few things after about 7 hours!! EVERYBODY was having a yard sale it seemed like :) Here are 2 things I was happy to get :)

A sweet baby rocking chair and a gender/season neutral UT outfit!

The other night after our 2nd home study visit we met Tina, Shane and Izzy at the Mexican restaurant. She is such a ball of energy. I cannot wait until we bring home our baby and they can become friends :)

We just have a few things to finish up and actually pay for the home study and then we will begin working on our profile. After that we should be finished and will just be in the waiting stage(again!!!). Until then, this little guy is the light of my world. He is such a neat pup and I love spending time with him this week!

                                                    Have a great week!!

It's been 5 years baby!!

Happy Anniversary to the sweetest man I know :) 6 years ago today Allen called me for the first time! 5 years ago we were married. I've loved every second and look forward to our future! I know God is gonna bless us in the coming years, hopefully with sweet little ones. I know Allen is going to be the best daddy!!!

This is when we were dating I think!

One of our first engagement pics in Hawaii :)

I love you Allen Goins :)