Oooooh la la pumpkins........

One of my favorite family outings, yes.....even more then apple picking. Finding the perfect family pumpkin. It is the smell in the air, the chill...yet sunshine, & oh yea...the pictures. Oh, how I love pictures. I know every parent thinks their children are beautiful, but mine really are the apple of my eye. I love that we are making the memories that they are going to forever have in their minds...& when they forget, the picture will be there. Every year going to the same pumpkin patch, taking our big wheel barrel loaded down with children out to the fields only to load it down with pumpkins. Watching them wander the field till they find the perfect pumpkin. We might of had crying fits about who could not find there shoes or who touched who in the car, but when we get there all worries are gone. As we go pick out 'the big one'. And did we ever this year too....the one we are always looking at & taking picture with..yep we bought it. Hope they remember that too! ;)

Mrs. Brothers Baby Shower

 What a great afternoon spent in Ellen's 1st grade classroom! All of my ideas for the baby shower seemed to go off without a hitch! I love Mary, she has been a great friend for so many years & I am happy that I was able to do this for her as we await the birth of Baby Brothers! She is loaded up with diapers & books...hopefully they will both last her a good long while!

 Love me some cookies made by Sugar Chic in Dublin. She make amazing creations!   http://sugarchicbydawn.blogspot.com

 We did 2 art projects. 1st everyone gave their best advice for taking care of a baby & a name suggestion for baby Brothers. They colored a picture on the bottom & this is being turned into a book at Kinko's for her! 2nd we gave her a scrap book & each child made a page decorated with baby stickers for her to have a brag book at school! The kids had such a great time!

We can't wait to meet you Baby Brothers!

Matilda Jane

 I am so in love & overly obsessed with this line of clothes. So much so I think it is almost worth selling all their clothes in their closets to take that money & then to buy them a Matilda Jane wardrobe!

 EVERY time they wear it the get compliments...constantly.

Ruby & I hit the Coffee shop, post office, bank & library hour before picking up the kids from preschool. The Ooooo's & Ahhhhh's were non-stop. 

They just look cute, I think they know it too. When they wear it, it must make them 'feel' pretty. Ruby twirled & danced thru every store!

Trunk Show at my house! Great outfits for family pictures & 

would be so cute in outdoor fall photos! 

Flat Stanley

Someone showed up in our mailbox yesterday. 

A small, flat man. 

Flat Stanley aka Walker Browning. 

All the way from Raleigh, North Carolina. 

 

He met a flat girl named Ellen, she decided she wanted to travel with him!

We showed Flat Stanley a great night taking him to see Walkers old Neighbors.

Visiting the old house where Walker lived. (that was fun explaining to the new owners that I wanted to take a picture in front of their house with a paper doll!)

We went to the Horseshoe to see where the Buckeyes play.

& we even saw Bruits!

Flat Stanley is soon going to be on his way to Florida, the kids were happy he came to visit. It was good, free entertainment for the night!

A is for APPLE

It's official.....fall is here! We are one day in & we did one of our favorite fall traditions, apple picking. 

For the apples, yes. 

But mostly for the pictures.

Football, jeans, sweaters, crisp air, pumpkins, the smell of fire places.....& apple picking. Truly my most favorite season of all time.

I love watching my family as we wander aisle through aisle of trees...picking some apples.....tasting others. Their excitement of finding the perfect one.

Happy Fall ya'll