Halloween, this and that and the most amazing dining experience!

So it's been awhile and a lot has happened since the last time I blogged. Our friend Erin had a Halloween party and costumes were mandatory so we decided to go as Vilma Flinstone and Betty Rubble. The Vilma costume wasn't really Tiffany so she wanted to try the Pebbles costume. She ROCKED it! I have never seen anything as funny and cute as her in her costume. You agree? Take a look at the leg warmers and the shorts! they were AWESOME!

The second picture has the Village people, Erin as a construction worker, Christy in her navy white, Tiffany as Pocahontas and Sue as a cowboy...Can't remember the names of the 2 others. We apparently met them last year at Erin's Halloween party as well but I was in so much pain that I can't even remember the people from that party!

The actual Halloween weekend we spent at Tiffany's moms. I got my hair done, we went out for lunch, ran some errands and then headed to Billy and Amanda's to see Carly. She was dressed up as a gold fish...the cutest little goldfish ever! I believe all of you will agree with me when you see the pictures. Carly is the happiest little girl, she calls Tiffany "TiTi" like all the kids do and me "Neni". When she was younger I figured I'll teach her to say my name correctly since no one else will but there is no other Neni's in her life so that name is all mine. She'll learn eventually. We've seen quite a lot of Carly since we go to their house almost every Sunday to watch the Eagles game and Carly hangs out with us. I have no idea what's going on in the game half the time because I am laughing at something she says or does. She more than makes up for the fact that I am not close to my nieces and nephew. It's sad but they are all in Finland and I was never close to my sister or my older brother anyway so I guess it's to be expected. I am friends with my 2 older nieces on facebook and check out the pictures of my brother's kids regularly. But anyway...back to Carly...here are some pictures of her from Halloween and recent weeks.

Aunt Olivia caught a fish!

I don't have patience to play with the settings so the pictures are all over the place.

We spent the evening trick or treating with Tiffany's sisters Olivia and Victoria and a bunch of their cousins and friends. This was my first trick or treat experience. It was little chilly and then towards the end it started to rain but the kids were able to get a lot of candy and they had fun so that's all that matters. It was Olivia's 8th birthday on Sunday so we ended the night with birthday cake.

There is nothing to report on the job hunt front. I am still frustrated with the whole deal but sending resumes and applications left and right. Trying to stay positive...

We did not have plans for this weekend so we stayed home. On Saturday Jaime and Jenn invited us to a local restaurant for pizza. Apparently it's very famous and turned out that it's not far from us at all. There were pictures of famous people on the walls. We had to wait for 20 minutes in the cold to get a table but boy was it worth it! It was an Italian restaurant with an emphasis on pasta. I order chicken parm (chicken breast filee topped with mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce), Jaime ordered the same and Tiffany and Jenn ordered rigatoni ala vodka (pasta in a vodka sauce ) and bow tie carbonara (pasta in a cream sauce with bacon and mushroom pieces). As we are sitting there waiting for our food to arrive our waiter brings out this little appetizer plate which had clams in a tomato broth and shrimp. Then the owner of the place comes to our table and tells us that it was part of their special "Chef's table" which included a lot of different appetizers and 4 kinds of entrees for 35 bucks pr person. The couple that was sitting next to our table had it and we were drooling while watching them eat. The owner leaves and them little later on comes back and tells our waiter to bring on 2 plates of appetizers, a shrimp cocktail and baked clams. I heard the word shrimp cocktail and I was in 7th heaven! Our food arrived and I said to Tiffany that I hope they'll bring out the shrimp cocktail because it's now in my head. And they did! There is only one thing that's better than great food and that's great FREE food! OMG all of it was soo good...I had 2 pieces of chicken left to take home and we had little pasta to go with that. But wait, I'm not done yet. After we stuff our faces with all this awesome food the owner comes back and asks our waiter if we ordered dessert. Then he tells him to bring us the dessert plate from the chef's table! OMG. Take a look! (Picture taken with Tiffany's phone) It had tortufo (ball of vanilla ice cream in a dark chocolate cover) covered by some more ice cream, whipped cream, 2 chocolate mousses and 2 brownies! We were super stuffed after that! And then the bill came and it was less that 60 bucks for the 4 of us...15 bucks per person! And then Jenn goes and pays for it! Thanks Jenn!

Oh yeah, we did have some pizza too. Jenn ordered a slice for appetizer so that we could taste it.

Hope you are having a good day. Later