Happy Halloween...Part Duex

Hey ya'll (yes I said ya'll) Nate here. Not that I want to be the rephraser of stories but I would like to put my spin on things every now and then. First of all Abby can speak for herself when she says "My husband and I were so excited to get trick or treaters this year". I would say I was mildly ecstatic. Let me tell you how excited Abby gets for things like these! And speaking of always having the camera hand I really should have taken a picture of Abby on Halloween night. I don't think I have ever seen a 25 year old woman so jacked out of her mind for strange little boys and girls to come by parading in outfits late at night. Picture this......me.....cleaning wood trim with Old English caked on so thick on my hands it feels like I could wash my hands for 45 minutes and never get it off.....Abby sitting in front of the door.....not just sitting casually in a chair watching a television show while she pops popcorn in the background and the dog plays around on the floor.....we don't even have any furniture at the house! She was sitting Indian style on the floor 6 feet from the front door which every one could see in because it is an all glass door. Now also picture this..... little Halloween sounds are going off every 3 minutes because she found an app for her phone that every time you walk by the camera it sets off a new scary tone, all the while a loud "TRICK OR TREATERS ARE HERE NATHAN!!!!!!!" to which I politely said "Oh boy!" (this is wear I think the confusion of excitement came from). After every child, the little there were (pun intended) she would just run around the house saying "I love having trick or treaters! Needless to say it was pretty funny. I wish everyone could see the new level of excitement she has now that we have the house.

Speaking of house just to update everyone on the progress so far in the last 1.5 months we have

• installed a fence
• descaped the entire place (Linda descaped is a new word I made up for reverse landscaping which is when you tear out every living thing from your yard)
• prepped the floor for tile (backerboard)
• painted the entire house ceilings and walls
• new door handles
• new faucet
• new water heater
• and a bunch of little stuff that is not worth listing

Everything in the house is going just fine and we are excited to move in and start "real life" as we call it. We paid our first mortgage payment the other day and we just kinda looked at each other and said "wow.....here goes the next thirty years!"

Don't know who reads all of this but I won't be prying in too much on Abby's blog but every now and then I got to through something in like......maybe....a joke. Thats it rather than coming up with a sappy goodbye for now I will end with a joke. Here it goes:

Two olives are hanging out on top of a table discussing various things "how you do-en, how's ya mutha, etc..." one of the olives (god forbid) rolls over and falls off the table....... The other olive to his surprising dismay (because he is a talking olive) leans over the edge and says "hey......are you ok?" the other olive looks back at him and says "all-live"!