Scary time of year, folks!

So, in honor of Halloween (aka Tommy's favorite holiday) we have been doing some scary celebrating.

1. I surprised Tommy one day after work with decorating the apartment in Halloween decor! I would post pictures, but, sadly, my decorating abilities are seriously lacking...my spiderwebs on the window fell down after like 4 days and I haven't been able to get them good looking since :( And we don't have any cookies, so I haven't been able to use one of the three wood cuts my mom made for the cookie jar that is actually seasonably appropriate, (we'd been using easter for august/september) but I'm too lazy to make cookies. Plus, Melissa made us really yummy pumpkin bread, so we don't need any more goodies. Instead I have decided to put the woodcut up against our way cool can opener (shout out to Danny and Sarah) to help beautify it. And I've pulled the Frankenstein wallflower out from behind the couch; we get lots of compliments on that bad boy (shout out to RaeAnn).

2. We went to Cornbelly's (does anyone else think that place should have a different name) in Thanksgiving Point with some of Tommy's friends from work last weekend. Cornbelly's by day is a way cute place filled with awesome pumpkins, camp fires, fried oreos pb&j sandwiches and something else I can't remember, a hayride, plus a pumpkin gun and a corn gun that Tommy was really excited to play with (should I worry about his affinity to guns?? haha). But, by night, it is a terrifying place with a haunted corn maze, hay maze, jail/tall fence maze (not sure on the name for that one), haunted high top which I refused to enter, and "the beast" that ate and digested us (along with some other scary things). It was basically terrifying, but Tommy absolutely loved it! And it was fun to see him so excited :) Plus, I got raspberry rock candy out of it.

3. We've been watching Buffy in preparation for Halloween...I'm trying to talk Tommy into being Spike so I can be his Drusilla, but we'll see...not that we have any Halloween plans. What does a college married couple do for Halloween?? Please weigh in with your opinions.

4. We have also been watching the Halloween movies on AMC. I still haven't even watched all of one of them, yet somehow I am strangely interested in the story...though Tommy laughs at me because I refuse to believe Michael Meyers is just psycho...there must be some sort of back story people! 

Anyway...that is October in our house--SUPER SCARY!

Happy Halloween!

It's official...

If it's official for BYU, then it's pretty much set-in-stone...

I got me a new name :)

McLaughlin Home

It's taken me forever to finally post pictures of our apartment, but I had an excuse to take some pictures, so now I can share them with you!! The picture show starts with a story though...so when we first moved in, we noticed that the linoleum around our fridge was kind of bubbled up, but we didn't think anything of it. Then, a couple of weeks ago, Tommy noticed that our carpet was kind of wet around the water heater closet, which is right next to our fridge.So we called the managers, got some people to check it out and what do you know? Our water heater had been leaking for months and had done some serious damage to the flooring under the carpet and linoleum.

 This is what it looked like after they ripped up the damaged stuff and took out our air conditioner and water heater.

We had to stay at Tommy's aunt and uncle's house why they fixed it for a few days, but we got new linoleum out of the hole deal, so we're okay with it. haha Anyway...here is our new and improved apartment with all of our decorations up!

Check out the nice linoleum! haha This is our kitchen view from the door

And here's the view from our bedroom door

This is our bedroom!

And this is probably my favorite wall! (it's the view from our bed)

And here's our front room..view from the kitchen

And here's the front room from our front door

And that's our home!! Come visit :)

And a wedding picture :)

Married Woman

I'm a married woman now!! It's official and we are very very happy!

We're home from the honeymoon, setting up our apartment. It's looking pretty good; we almost have everything done! And it's looking pretty good!

I started classes today and Tommy and I both started our work last week. We started going to our new ward and it seems pretty cool. We're trying to be outgoing and make friends (by "we" I mean "I" cuz Tommy is already outgoing and good at making friends).

Well, I could update more but it would take forever and I have to go to work so...I hope you enjoyed the quick update!