Happy Halloween

From the cutest little monster and Buzz Lightyear!
Enjoy all the candy, the costumes & stay safe ♥

A Little Bit of Everything!

This will probably be a little long. The reason I mostly blog is to remember what was going on so that I can go back and use it for scrapbooking and memories but I also having a place for ideas and such. Reading blogs gives me plenty of those and if you're a Pinterest-aholic, like me, you have a place for LOTS of ideas.

1. I bought a new lamp shade from our Pottery Barn outlet here. I still don't know how I feel about it. I think I'm liking the openess of it but Chris is still on the fence about it.

2. Inspired by a blog that I read, I changed the dining room set-up and I like it, but, I think our table is to small in the room. Maybe because that's the only furniture in the room but I think I want a farmhouse table in here. More on that later.

(I probably should've cleaned off my pumpkins..oops)

3. This is the only tree on my block that has leaves turning color and I love it. Yes this is random.

4. I made this delicious meal the other night and was so proud at how it looked I photographed it! It's Balsamic Chicken with Tomato and Mozzarella Topping courtesy of Favorite Family Recipes, a food blog I love!

5. I love Halloween and I love decorating for it but this year I realized that my decorations are not big enough for our house! In the apartments they were perfect sized but not so much anymore. I haven't had the chance to really buy any for this year so maybe I'll deal with what we've got and pick some decorations at the end of the season, real cheap, and buy some next Halloween.

6. My baby boy turned a month old already. Feels like just yesterday I brought him home. He loves his brother, he's back up to his birth weight, he's eating about 4 oz. every 3 hours, he's in size 1 diapers (they're still a little big), he's still in 0-3 month clothes, but has already outgrown his newborn stuff. We love him so much!  ♥

7. I'm so excited but nervous to be starting school again in Jan. I'm planning on getting this Life Planner from erincondren.com to keep my life in check. I saw it on Amanda's blog, OurOklahomaNest, and thought it was absolutely perfect for the student/working mom in me! Can't wait to place my order =)

My favorite design!



So far that's what I've been up to. Painting and other home improvements are on the back burner until after the new year. There's to much going on between now and then. I need to get into a routine and then hopefully everything will fall into place. Hope you all have a good week.

Cowardly Lion!

Happy Halloween!!

Someone was completely unhappy about his costume! I had no idea how trick or treat went around here in TN, so we didn't go out, but I had a little candy hunt for him at home. It was lame but he liked putting candy in his bucket so an Easter egg hunt should go without a hitch. Hopefully by next year I'll get on the Halloween bandwagon and know all the details. I was really sad we didn't trick or treat. There's always next year!

Tomorrow I'll be taking down Halloween decorations, leaving Fall decor up and looking forward to Thanksgiving. Chris' step mom and I talked to today and she said she was going to get his dad tickets to Miami or somewhere else but he said he would much rather see his grandson! So cute! So, hopefully, we'll be getting a visit from them too!

Pumpkin Fun Pt. 2

Note: I broke up the last post and this one because it was getting picture laden and long!

Last night, I decided we were going to carve our pumpkin. Last year we just painted ours, even though I had every intention of carving! I had looked for stencils and everything but figured to try it freehand and at first it looked "redonkulus" so I just went with the traditional triangles for the eyes and nose. Then I realized my pumpkin was going to look like it had green eyes (I used a green marker) because I drew the triangle over my redonkulus eyes!! Mr. Clean's erasers came in and saved the day there!! Ha!

Chris cleaning out the inside of our pumpkin.

Which was disappointingly not full of pumpkin seeds!

My first eye cutout!! Ha!

Logan with the finished results...

He climbed up on the table and threw everything into the pumpkin!

The pumpkins and the rest of the Halloween decorations:

Pumpkin Fun Pt. 1

We had some pumpkin fun this week!! First we let Logan paint his pumpkin. Oh my, this little boy, who couldn't bear to touch paint this past summer, was all up in the paint this time around!!! But he had some serious fun and we had fun taking pics and video recording it all!

It was all serious work at first!

 A little Picasso on our hands!!

 I think Logan is trying out for the Blue Man Group!

My favorite pic of the whole night!!

He did get a bath and thank goodness for washable paint...None of this stuck onto any surface!!

Pumpkin L♥ove

Chris and I took Logan to pick out pumpkins at a local farm here in TN! On a recommendation from Liz, I swanted to go to Cedar Hill Farms, in Hernando, MS,  but since I work on the weekends, it's been really hard doing any family activities during the weekend and so we had to do this during the week. I almost put the kabash on the whole deal when the day turned out to be in the 90s! Seriously.  But for fear that the rest of the month would be that way we moved forward and went to pick our pumpkins (it's definitely my FAVORITE fall thing to do!)

It definitely was very different from something that I'm used too! The pumpkin "patch" was in the back yard of someone's home. Very differnt but we proceeded. They had a very cute setup with a play area for kids and Christmas trees already growing in the background! They had some cute photo ops too, so, of course, I took the opportunity!

An old barn on the property

My attempt at taking still life pictures on my digital camera.

An old Ford tractor!

Me & my baby boy♥

I completely forgot to take a pic of our pumpkins but I hope to be carving them next week! So stay tuned for some pumpkin carving fun! My schedule freed up a little bit today for work this weekend so we might just head on down to Hernando and check out Cedar Hill Farms!

26 Days!

That's how long until it's Halloween!

Can you tell I'm excited!?

I already changed my layout!!

Bear with me you'll probably see a Holiday every month until April!

Ha!

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I mean who can resist candy, Halloween cupcakes, decorations, cute kids in costumes, myths & stories, and Charlie Brown!?

Definitely not I!

Finishing my Halloween decorations is definitely on my agenda tomorrow.

Tonight, however, I'm enjoying sitting by my fireplace and catching up on my DVR!

It's definitely a beautiful Fall night to enjoy!

♥

Halloween Wreath

Remember the Sneak Peek post? Well here it is my Halloween wreath in it's finality!!!  I got the idea from the blog Tatertots and Jello! Her blog has the cutest ideas EVER!!! Here's her wreath post with a tutorial too!!

Sneak Peek!

I'm attempting a Halloween wreath.

It involves this:

and some of these:

 I hope it turns out cute!

Monday I should be done with it

Because I'm ready to play with my new scrapbook book!