Dan's 27th Birthday

It's crazy how time flies. I feel like Dan is still the 21 year old I met 6 years ago, but somehow we just celebrated his 27th birthday. His favorite dessert and candy is anything peanut butter and chocolate so I made him a reeses birthday cake with peanut butter chocolate frosting and a ganache topping. I tried doing a sentimental gift and came up with 27 memories we have had together and attach them to balloons. I realized though that Dan would not want me to spend $30 on balloons so I only got 5 balloons and the rest were attached on pictures (which he appreciated). I brought that over to his office and then we went over to King of Prussia to eat at the cheesecake factory. Afterwards we went shopping for shoes because he loves shoes. Then we went home and opened the rest of his presents up. 

Halloween Party

So usually the Halloween party has been at Scott and Lisa's house every year, but this year they were out of town and came back a couple of days before the date so we had the party at our house instead. They do a much better job at throwing Halloween parties, but it was still really fun!

Courtney and Paul came to visit!

Courtney, Paul and Austen came to visit us! Paul had a conference in D.C. so they came a little early to hangout with us. We did a lot of fun things while they were here: Reading Terminal Market, Independence Hall, D.C., and a Greek Fair. We were trying to convince Paul to come to the University of Pennsylvania :). The last time I saw Austen was in January and it's crazy how much he has grown! He's one of the cutest kids I have every seen and it was fun to play with him and of course see Courtney and Paul. I definitely miss all of them already.

The Greek Festival had the best gyros I have every had! We all argued about how to pronounce a gyro, but we figured it out and I was right :)

White Elephant Party

We had our annual white elephant party at Todd and Megan's house this year. Todd made all the food this year and it was delicious! We started out with mussels sauteed in garlic parsley butter, then we had a fabulous seafood pasta dish, then we finished with Lamb, mashed potatoes and salad. 

I made these different types of cookies

Here are all of the presents :)