It's Friday!

I am so excited about this weekend!

Lots o' kid-free fun planned.

Today Ryan is taking his former team from work to the

State Fair of Texas

and decided spouses should come along.

Smart man.

We're riding the DART Rail to the fair

for a day of ridiculous adult fun.
Good times.
Saturday is our 2nd annual anniversary Razorback football game!
Remember our trip last year?
This year, instead of traveling to Fayetteville to see the Hogs play,
we're going to the Cowboy Stadium in Arlington to watch
the Razorbacks battle the Texas A&M Aggies!

Awesome.
Good times fo sho.
Have a fabulous weekend, friends!!
Go Hogs!

It just Keeps Getting Better...

Today is Ryan's and my 3rd anniversary.
My parents gave us this card.

It's so us.
Please don't throw up.
I waited a long time to be this happy.

Ryan,
You continue to surprise me.
You continue to inspire me.
You continue make me happier than I thought possible.
You love my children as your own.
I love and respect you beyond measure.
Three years...it feels like I have never known anything but you.
It just keeps getting better!

Love,
Your Wife =)

A Spooky Tree!

We went on a golf cart ride 

checking out the outdoor fall/Halloween decor

sprouting up all over the neighborhood on Saturday,

and while doing so, we saw a big tree with fallen branches strewn about.

Well...Ryan and the boys saw branches...I saw a Halloween tree in the making.

The boys and I jumped out and collected our branches.

Fast forward one day, I went to Walmart looking for a base for the tree.

I found this $10.00 sad little arrangement but loved the shape of the container.

 So......I ripped all that mess out.

 I sprayed the branches and the urn flat black:

 I then pushed the branches into the foam

already in the urn from the original arrangement

forming a "tree".

 I added a crow:

 some Spanish moss and tags with Halloweenish words:

a little bit of leftover spider webbing:

 Hello, Mr. Bones:

 You likey?

More Halloween inspiration:

Weekend Recap & A Pumpkin Display!

Just sayin.

The weather has been gorgeous this weekend.

Perfect.

Perfect baseball weather.

Perfect outdoor weather.

Doesn't get any better than this time of the year.

I know...I said the same thing when spring rolled around.

We spent several hours at ballparks on Saturday.

{Mom...seriously. Put the camera away.}

But if I put it away,

I couldn't capture moments like this of father and son.

I love these 2 guys.

Mirror images of each other.

 On Friday, my precious mother and I went to 

Christmas in Cowtown

hosted by the Fort Worth Junior League,

where I got pulled over for speeding,

got out of the ticket because I honestly had NO idea I was speeding,

almost had to get out of my car and let a lady know

that I had been waiting several minutes for a parking spot

that she swiftly scooped up right before my very eyes,
was able to see a sweet blogger friend, Sara,

and finally bought this iron planter for our front porch:

 I filled it with munms, pumpkins, more grapevine garland and a few little nods to Halloween!

 I found the Halloween sign at the grocery store of all places.

 I love all the different color variations.

I couldn't decide which pics I liked best...so I included them all.

I'm nuerotic like that.

 Did you notice the little guy in the cornstalk?

They're all over the place these days.

 We spent a lot of time outside on the patio this weekend.

I caught up on pages filled with eye candy

while the boys played and Ryan watched football.
Awesome.

On Saturday evening,
we hung out with our baseball crew friends...
6 couples and all our kids.
Always a good time.
Other than a major set back with
"The Teenager"
 it was a great weekend.

Teenagers keep you on your toes, my friends.

Not the kind of "on your toes" like a ballerina.

We're talking "on your toes" like watch out for the broken glass.

Here's to a fresh start beginning with a new week!

I have several fun projects planned.

Shocker.

Happy Sunday!
Checkout some more eye candy!

Southern Hospitality

Pumpkin Topiary!

I decided to change out the contents of the urns on

either side of our front door today because...

I wanted a project.

I know.

I have an illness.

I am seriously addicted at this point.

Here is the BEFORE:

Once I threw out all the old plantings,

I started to paint the 4 white pumpkins

I bought from Market Street.

I decided I would monogram the smaller ones.

I placed a template on the little white guys, and traced around the "S".

Then I painted in the lines with black acrylic paint.

Easy.

The boys and I added polka dots to the larger ones using a round sponge brush.

While the paint dried, I took some grapevine garland

I already had on hand and decided to incorporate it into the project.

 Using wire cutters, I cut the garland in to the desired lengths

and coiled it until it made sort of a nest for the pumpkins to rest on:

 I then added the larger pumpkin:

 In order to add some interest and give

the smaller pumpkin a base

to rest on, I added a smaller coil of the grapevine:

 I used a twisty tie to secure the garland:

 The finished product!

For the right side of the door:

Annnnnnnnnd the left:

Happy Friday, friends!

Looking forward

to a weekend of family fun!!

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