Blueberry Pie & Sunsets

For those of you who are not aware... we moved. Floors, that is. We moved apartments from #202 to #417. (Side note... update our apartment # in your address book if you already haven't done so.) Anyway... back to this blog. The McKinney's used to live on floor 2 with us, but they moved to the 10th floor. So we are no longer neighbors :(

It had been WAY too long since we'd spent time with them and their precious two girls, so this was a wonderful time we spent together, laughing, catching up, and eating FABULOUS dessert :)

This is Olivia and she makes me melt.

This is Abbey and she will make you smile ALL the time :)

Later that night we decided to go on the rooftop of our building and take some sunset pictures with some of our friends. Meet Lindy Jo & Caleb. We lead a small group with them on Wednesday nights.

Self portrait.

Gotta love the skyline of Dallas.

This is the blueberry pie that was made by Abbey and her mom, Christie, which we enjoyed after watching the sun go down. They are fabulous cooks. Yum!

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Who needs costumes? We've got dessert!

Being in seminary housing brings out the "domestic-ness" in me. I love to bake and what a more perfect excuse to bake something delicious than a holiday? But, Halloween? Yes! Some girlfriends and I decided that we would have a Halloween/Fall dessert party and enjoy the evening with playing games and hanging out. But before we all got together we decided to stay in our apartment and hand out candy to whoever knocked.

It was so much fun having all the kids in the building come by our front door and hold out their bags in anticipation of how much "goods" we would give them. The costumes were great and so clever! After all the kiddos came by, JT and I picked our favorite costumes:

JT's - Astronaut

Mine- Miss Frog & Miss Tadpole (Abbey & her baby sis Olivia)

We're sad we don't have pictures of them to share! But here are some of our fun evening with friends...

Our Dessert Menu:

Peanut Butter Cookies

Sugar Cookies

Everything Cookies

Hummingbird Cake (Like a spice cake)

Pumpkin Bread

Apple Crisp

Coffee/Hot Chocolate

The Girls (Claire, Jenny, Rylin, me, Brooke)

The Boys (Kevin, Will, JT, Joby, Josh) They're so silly.

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