Wonderful long weekend!!!

What a great weekend this has been (and it's not even over yet!!) I will start with Saturday, ahem:
SATURDAY: Well, I went shopping on Saturday. Yep! That's right! Shopping!!!! There's this new mall whatever place in Springfield that I am in love with, and I was planning on it being a quick trip, but this place has a pull....and, you know, lots of stuff to shop for. So! I bought some new boots for me.

Woot! It was between these creamish ones, and the gray ones below

I actually liked the gray ones a lot more, but I already have gray boots....and I sent out a text to my mom and sister and husband, and they all liked the cream ones better, so cream it was! And I am a happy new boot owner! There is also another happy new boot owner in our family.....Haddy! She got 3 new pairs of shoes! One for Church, and two just to keep her feet warm when we are out. Ta Da!

So cute. I love baby stuff.
Well, I also bought some new pants because my favorite pair have two large holes in a very unfortunate spot...that I won't mention...and I'm not putting a picture of them, so there. But I also bought some hair dye... I know what some of you may be thinking.... "Haven't you tried dying your own hair before? And didn't it turn out to be a disaster?" Well, yes. And yes. BUT I went to Sally's and talked to the girl there and told her all the problems I'd had the times before (yes, times, you'd think I'd learn) and she was very helpful and told me what to do and what to get. So I did! And I dyed my hair blonde! But it turned out brown, somehow. Hmm... So I have weird brown hair, and no I don't like it, but it was ten bucks, and you can't be ten bucks, and I don't have roots anymore. But I don't like the color, so I'm thinking about actually going darker because blonde is too hard, and I like dark hair, I just don't know how it will look on me. I don't know. Oh, and what's that you ask? Can you see a picture of my new brown hair? No. And I'm not even sorry. You should be thanking me actually.
Anyways, so when I got home from shopping I got ready because we had been invited to go to Linvilla on a halloween hayride!!! And I ate an apple cider doughnut, and it was delicious. Here are some pictures from the orchards:

It was so fun! And it was so nice to get out of our apartment.....I don't leave here often.
SUNDAY: Well, Justin and I decided to attempt some doughnut-making on Sunday. I was nervous because I'd never even made something simple involving yeast before, but I was starting off with doughnuts! Yikes! Well, after a very long day of adding flour and kneading and using up yeast packets because we thought we were doing it wrong, we finished our delicious doughnuts!!!

Glazed. (There are also some leaf-shaped ones in there)

Cinnamon sugar.

Sooooooooooooooo good!!! If I do say so myself! Mmm. Mmmmmmmmm. Also, I tried a new recipe for dinner, it's called Dijon Chicken Pasta and we LOVED it! Here's a picture:

Justin even nicknamed it because he liked it so much, he nicknamed it Troll Chicken (umm, I don't know why, he's funny) and if he nicknamed it that means he wants me to make it in the future. I highly recommend this food, here's a link to the recipe: http://rockrecipes.blogspot.com/2007/10/dijon-chicken-linguine-with-chanterelle.html You're welcome!
MONDAY: Justin had the day off and I gave him my pouty face so that he would do something fun with Haddy and I instead of do homework all day, and it worked! He took us on a tour of campus and afterwards we ate lunch at the famous Bobby Flay's Bobby's Burger Palace and let me just say....DELICIOUS!!!!!! So delicious. This weekend was pretty much filled with delicious food. They had this fry sauce that  rocked our socks, and with their onion rings and sweet potato fries? Can't go wrong! Pictures of the day:

This was some fancy area for the Wharton kids....I kept looking around and thinking "All of these people are going to be filthy rich one day"

One of the things I love about PA? Squirells!

This is Justin in front of College Hall. It's a beautiful building!

College Hall is green and it's next to the fine arts library which is red. I love the contrast!

Fine arts library

Penn coat of arms.

 Food: ( I didn't think to take the pictures until we had already delved into the food)

Sweet potato fries and onion rings. Mmmmmmmmm

Dallas burger: bbq sauce and cole slaw, weird? Yes. Delicious? Yes.

Philly burger...it was very spicy! Glad it was Justin's and not mine

And the day's not over!! In about a half hour we are to continue our annual Fall Harry Potter Marathon! We watch one Harry Potter movie every week until Halloween. Tonight we are watching the 4th one. Yay! I love this weekend!
Also some other things, here are some pictures of Haddy in her cute halloween shirt her gram sent to her (you can't tell in the pictures but it says "Be afraid, be very afraid")

Also some more awesome things: I bought curtains for our living room! I'm so excited for them to get here! And I bought a new shower curtain, which I am also very excited for (our bathroom is so dark and our current shower curtain is super dark, so them combined makes the whole thing very dark). Um, Justin would disagree with me, but I really don't buy stuff this much, this weekend was an exception (a wonderfully fun one!) Here are some pictures of my curtains that should be coming this week:

White: simple yet elegant, and light!

The website wouldn't let me save the image of the curtains in the color I bought them, so I just did this one, but the ones I ordered are actually tan.

Well, gonna go watch some Harry Potter now! Peace out!!

Pictures of the prettiest girl in the world!

Haddy!!! Say hello to our blog readers (aka your Aunt Jenna)

She was in charge of folding the laundry, but ended up just drooling all over it.

This is a really cute sad face. Aww.

This is her "I'm going to look really cute so you give me whatever I want" look.

She is really good at sitting up now!

At the mall in King of Prussia, every girl's dream!

I don't know why, but I just think this picture is funny. And it shows off her cute Boo jams.

This is a picture of Haddy pretending to be a wreath I made. She's not very good at it as you can see....

New headband flowers! They were leftover from the wreath.

My new contraption, the Extend-a-Diaper!!! Haddy has been having a lot of blowouts lately for some reason, and I was getting sick of cleaning them up, so I put on a diaper, then cut another one in half and put it higher up on her back to avoid the poop overflowing, then taped it in place.

Isn't that just the cutest face you've ever seen? Oh I love her so much!!

A bone to pick...

That's right, I've got a bone to pick with the makers of the high chair I bought. What idiotic doesn't-know-anything-about kids kind of a person came up with this thing? Kids are messy, right? Very messy? Even incredibly disgustingly messy sometimes? Yes, you'd think we'd all know that, but apparently not.
So my lovely baby girl has had some major blowout diapers the past couple of days, and her one today happened to take place in none other than her high chair. But guess what!!! I can't take off the cover to wash it!!!! Poop everywhere is not exactly something you can just spot clean and hope for the best....especially when your child likes to suck on the straps. UGH!!!
The end.

Mom Visit

My mom came to visit here in Philly about a week and a half ago, we had so much fun! She left on Wednesday, and I am sad....but what do ya do? Anyways, it was definitely a trip full of "firsts." First earthquake, hurricane, tornado, DC trip, and much much more.....
Well, while my mom was here we did some fun things! First thing we did was went to Lancaster County, that's where the Amish are. There's this place called Kitchen Kettle that is a bunch of really cute shops, I LOVE that place! And they have Amish ice cream and kettle korn (soooo good) and we definitely indulged.

 They also have a HUGE outlet thing there so we of course had to go there as well. All we made it to was Carter's...Haddy pretty much got a new wardrobe (they were having an AWESOME sale AND I had a coupon!). Awwww shopping.

The next day was Thursday and we went to Arlington, VA to visit my mom's aunt and uncle. On our way we stopped in Baltimore for lunch, this place was so cool but FREEZING inside!!! Colder than most freezing places I'm sure. But delicious and fun :)

As we continued our road trip saw the DC temple! It just comes out of all these trees while you're on the freeway (this picture doesn't do it justice)

You can barely see it here, it looked so amazing in real life, but that's the Temple back there in the mist!

 We had so much fun in VA! They have a beautiful home that made us feel like we were in a cabin in the woods because it was surrounded by trees! And it was supposed to rain so it was really really misty, like fake-looking misty, like the misty you see in movies...I loved it it was so so beautiful! I just stood in their backyard enjoying it. Anyways, we slept there that night and went to DC the next day.
I love love LOVE LOVE Washington DC! We only had 5 hours and you can't even make a dent of a dent in that time.

The beginning of our DC journey, our nation's Capital!

The front had a really pretty garden area.

This was the view from the capital, you can see all the way down to the Washington monument (which we couldn't go up because of the damage the earthquake did to it)

Naked baby! It was so dang humid Haddy was sweating, so we just took off her clothes! We were all jealous and wished we could just take off our clothes to cool off....

Pretty fountain....we really wanted to jump in.

Um, creepy headless statues. We didn't know anything about them, but I took a picture because of their creepiness.

Another creepy statue, a very large spider.

Justin with the Washington Monument in the back

Unfortunately our DC trip was cut short do to an uninvited guest named Irene....we had to leave early so we weren't driving in the midst of he wrath. So we said our goodbyes to my mom's wonderful aunt and uncle!

Then we headed back to Philly to prepare for the hurricane! Word to the unwise (because the wise already know this): don't wait until the last minute to prepare for a natural disaster, because EVERYTHING you need to buy is unavailable because everyone else waited until the last minute also. Well, we were unwise. The mayor said to expect power outages that could last up to two weeks (which has come to fruition, some people are still without power), so of course the stores are out of D batteries, flashlights, candles, water, and everything else useful. We literally went to at least five different places. We ended up with a little dinky headlight, and two tiny candles. Thankfully our area wasn't affected as bad and our power didn't even go out. But, thanks to the tornado warnings, it was a nerve-racking night.
The next day was Sunday and we just hung out all day. We weren't supposed to be out driving because of trees and power lines being down, and flooding.
Monday Justin had to go back to work unfortunately, but my mom and Haddy and I did some more hanging out.
Tuesday, Justin had to work again, so the girls went downtown to Independence Hall. We started off at the Liberty Bell then did a tour of Independence Hall. It made me realize how lucky we are to live in such a historic location!

Haddy loves George.

Let freedom ring.

Outside waiting for our tour to begin.

This is the courtroom.

George Washington himself sat at that very chair at that very desk. Wow, so amazing to be there.

This is kinda blurry cuz my camera sucks.

Again, blurry.

Unfortunately all good things must come to an end. The next day we took my mom to the airport so she could fly back to Utah. We had so much fun with her and were so glad she could come! I love my mom and I miss my family so it was good to see her.