Another Family Visit

Last weekend, I convinced my mom that she needed to come and visit us. She convinced my step-dad, and they both convinced my brother, sister-in-law, and my niece. I was so excited that they decided to come & see us, and we had a great weekend together!MC and A enjoyed playing together, although MC is the little bully, and punched her cousin in the face! (just kidding)
They really were happy to hang out.
And, I got picked on by my brother. I really am thankful for him. We definitely, had our fights when we were younger, but I know now that I can rely on him for anything.
G loved snuggling with her Gee, while we watched football.
My step-dad is really good with all of his granddaughters. I know he wants to spoil them, although he tries not to! He was taking MC on a motorcycle ride in this picture- blowing "wind" in her face! I'm not so sure she enjoyed it!
I'm pretty sure she thought he was crazy!
And, G got a little jealous, so she had to come over for a picture too!
Here's Gee with all of her granddaughters. I don't think she could be any happier to have three girls to shop for and spoil! And, she's taking us all to Branson right after Thanksgiving! Those stores better watch out!

Family Visit and Pumpkin Pickin'

Last weekend was busy and tons of fun! G had fall break on Thursday and Friday, so we were able to stay home and hang out. DJ was in Houston for a football game, and he was able to catch up with some college friends. He also realized that he's too old now to act like a college boy- ha!

Thankfully, TU won their game and the team headed home.

DJs aunt and uncle from Dallas happened to be in the T area for a bowling tournament, so they came over for breakfast Sunday morning. I tried a crockpot breakfast casserole recipe from Pintrest, that turned out okay, and they of course, brought gifts for the girls.
I'm pretty sure G has come to expect that when we have visitors, she'll get a gift, but she was super excited about this birthday play-doh set she received, as I had an anxiety attack picturing all the play-doh pieces on the floor. And yes, they are there, waiting to be swept up tomorrow.

One of my favorite pins is, "Pardon the mess, my children are making memories." I may just decal that to the entry way, and then I will never have to clean again!
I think I know where the girls blue eye's come from after seeing MC with her Uncle R.
And, she even let her Aunt C hold her!

Later that afternoon, I took the girls to the pumpkin farm with a new friend of ours.
G thought the petting zoo was pretty neat, but she was a little timid when it came to actually petting the animals. She would not really pet them on their faces, but a pat on the back was okay. Once.
She fed the animals, but would not let them eat from her hand. Those poor animals had to find it on the ground!
One of our new T-town, coaching wife friends and her cutie little boy E went with us to the pumpkin patch! We all enjoyed the wagon ride, but I'm pretty sure K was more excited than the kiddos!

G would not cooperate for a picture, and you never know with MC, so this was the best we got of the three of us!G on the wagon ride!
The pumpkin farm had pony and camel rides. G told me that she would ride a pony, but I did so not believe her! I went ahead and purchased a ticket anyway, making sure that I could get a refund if she chickened out, but she did it! She went ride up to the pony and hopped right on and rode like such a big girl! I was so shocked and proud of her!

Looks like pa needs to buy his grand girls a pony!
Finally after all of our fun, we went and picked out our pumpkins. I think G had a great time crawling around on them and rolling them over trying to find the perfect one!

Ghost Feet

Original idea was found via pintrest (of course) and the girls and I had so much fun making it!

Thankfully, Hobby Lobby had their canvas' on sale last week and I picked up a few. I painted this one black, and then I painted a foot on each girl and placed it on, upside down. Using a stencil, I painted the "B" and hand painted the letter o's. I also added the year.

Love this simple Halloween decor! I'm going to attach a ribbon and hang it up.

And, it will be so much fun pulling this out year after year and seeing how much their feet have grown!

Fall in Our House

It's fall here, as will hopefully be evident with our cooler temperatures this week! It's been in the 80s, and maybe an occasional 70s day, but the next three days will be down in the 60s. Makes me feel like i'm in Indiana again!

I haven't shared my fall decor yet, so I thought tonight would be a great night to do so.
My sofa table just has a few of my fall candy bowls (with no candy, because I have sneaky three year old hands in my house). I love the acorn and squirrel bowl, because they've been with me since my college days.
Our front entry is a plethora. I left my white candlesticks, and added a self made floral arrangement, our candy dish for Halloween, a candle my grandmother made, a bowl, and a pumpkin centerpiece that DJ's step mom gave to us.
On the floor beside the table are two wicker pumpkins, and a large white canister of glittery pumpkins- I love anything that sparkles! Above it is our Halloween countdown, that we may start the week before Halloween! I added the ribbon to it, because it just came on some gold pipe cleaner looking stuff.
I have this red metal shelf on our kitchen, and, as you can tell the homeowners of this house, wanted fall all year long, and painted it in shades of brown and red. But, I placed my Pilgrims and another fall candy dish.
I use an old sewing stand with a butcher block as a sideboard in the kitchen. I placed yet another candy dish (I have way too many of these, and every year I tell myself I'm going to get more fall decor that is NOT a candy dish), and my large serving platter. Along with my squirrel and nut salt & pepper shakes.

I must say, that a lot of my fall decor is sentimental because my sorority mascot is a squirrel. Many of these pieces were purchased for me in college, and I love digging them out again!

Hope your house is getting all festive as well, and that you're enjoying some cooler temps too!

Fall Banner via Pinterest

Pinterest continues to inspire me with fabulous ideas! One of them was a fabric scrap banner made with a strand of Christmas lights.

I thought it would be a fun project for my fall decorations and would be a great way to use up a ton of my scraps of fabric, ribbon, and tulle. I also had the twine laying around, so this project was pretty much free! (I did run out of fabric, so I purchased two 1/4 yards of fall fabric from JoAnn's and thankfully it was on sale, so I maybe spent $3.00 total!)

You simply cut your twine to length, and then cut your fabric, ribbon, and tulle into strips and tie on. I hammered two nails into my mantle. DJ may kill me for this, but it's a rent house, so I did it anyway.

Here's an up-close version!

How has Pintrest inspired your fall decorating?