Fall Festival

The city here has a fall festival we went to yesterday. It was pretty small, but Alan was there for the department so we spent some time with him.









Alan told Gracie he was going to take her to work with him



Here is the product of about 15 pounds of pears and 5 pounds of grapes

Fall Fun

The kids and I went with some friends to an apple, pear, and grape orchard today. Sadly, the apples were mostly gone, but we did get 24 pounds of Pears and Grapes.

The kids really enjoyed the pear picking, Grace particularly enjoyed stepping on the rotten ones!

The grapes were amazing, I am pretty sure my children ingested about a pound of grapes a piece while picking the grapes. They were so pretty, perfect little bunches.

I really want to go back in October for pumpkins and their late apples (granny smith, fuji etc) I am not sure I will be able since Collin will be a newborn then. Maybe that is something the kids can do while my mom is here. (hint hint)

Here are some pictures,







She has the weirdest smile, I wish she would open her eyes!

The Craft Bug

With Collin coming soon, I needed to get his room in order. I decided to make his bumper and bed skirt and it just snowballed from there! I also recovered the glider, made the curtain and a curtain for the closet. Then I added a fish theme with some canvases above his wall, some painted fish, a towel hook and finally decoupaged the letters for his name. I was going to applique fish to the bumper and curtains, but I thought that might be to much.

Here are some pictures:













We also made an upholstered headboard for our bed. It was super easy.



In other news, Preston loves school and Gracie is getting more girlie by the minute! She LOVES shoes and jewelry. Here she is the other day with my heels and some new bracelets from Me Ma

First Day of Preschool

Today was Preston's first day of Preschool. He was really excited to be going. He did really well, until he decided he wanted to go inside and he had to wait in line. I think it was a combination of excitement and a little fear. When we left he was OK.






We have been really busy around here trying to get ready for Collin. We moved Grace from downstairs to upstairs, painted her bed, got her a new bookcase and vanity and I re did her letters for her name. We are also making a headboard for our room, put some new things up in Preston's room and put a screen door on our backdoor.

I have also, made Collins bedding, curtains and closet door curtain. Plus we repainted the glider we had and I recovered the cushions on that. As soon as everything is in I will take some pics.

We are not quite ready for him to be here but we are getting close.