Wednesday, October 17, 2012

BBQ








Recently, we had the opportunity to have a barbecue at our apartment with a few of our new church friends.  It was a pretty awesome Sunday afternoon. The weather was perfect, the food was yummy, but the company was most definitely the best part. It feels pretty dang nice to finally be developing a social life here in Boise. We are planning on making Sunday night dinners with these lovely people a monthly thing. Gabe and I are so looking forward to our next one!!

Ps. Isn't Nikki's little boy the cutest?

Sunday, October 14, 2012

You're my Pumpkin



Hey. My name is Gabe. And this is our pumpkin patch story. So this weekend, Katie, Nate, and I went to Linder Farms and hopped on the hay, waiting on the back of the tractor to begin our journey to the greatest pumpkin patch story ever told. As thousands of children were making their way onto the tractor to begin their journey back to the farm, we were jumping off, all alone, in a field full of pumpkins. We stumbled across the pumpkins and I lost my footing and fell right in front of the most beautiful pumpkin I've ever seen. It traveled in my hands the rest of the way. Katie and Nate picked out their pumpkins too and as Nate was picking up the pumpkin he had picked out, he stumbled into the corn field. Laid out in front of Nathaniel, was a perfect trail through miles of corn stalks. The trail called to him so he started walking. We followed and the three of us started on our journey. At times, it was happy and we would laugh and twirl through the corn stalks. When we would lose our way, Katie would stand on my shoulders, as we tried to get a better look as to where we were. At other times, we would get discouraged and one of the three would want to go back, but the other two would motivate the third to keep going so we could reap the rewards at the end of the trail. We persevered on the trail through the hay fever and the cuts and scrapes. At one point, Nate and I had to pull Katie out of the mud that had swallowed her up. As we continued, I watched Katie's face and its array of emotions. She looked so cute in her yellow striped shirt, my own little pumpkin. When we were all tired and ready to turn back, I saw Katie's face turn into a huge smile as she saw the light at the end of the corn trail. We all jumped for joy and skipped to the end of the trail, where we took a picture, to remember the trail that we stumbled into at the pumpkin patch.



















Sunday, October 7, 2012

Photo Competition

Gabe and I can be pretty competitive toward one another and we also both really enjoy very amateur photography.  So I decided that we should have a photo competition this weekend.  I made a list of things we should each take pictures of, and Nathaniel, Gabe's brother, agreed to judge the pictures after our little adventure.  It was a fun "date." We explored Downtown Boise, took pictures, and talked about life. Nathan is still in the process of judging the pictures, but I thought it would be fun to put the pictures on our blog so everyone could see.     

Fall Tree

 Katie's

Gabe's


Pumpkin 

Katie's

Gabe's 

Old House

Katie's

Gabe's

Animal

Katie's

Gabe's

Love

Katie's

Gabe's

Art

Katie's

Gabe's

Self Portrait 

Katie's

Gabe's

Shoes

 Katie's

Gabe's

Dancing

Katie's

 Gabe's

Hands

Katie's

Gabe's

Smiling

Katie's

Gabe's

Car

Katie's

 Gabe's

Movement

Katie's 

Gabe's

Sign

Katie's

Gabe's

Flowers

Katie's

Gabe's

Oh..... and I won! :)