Happy Holidays!!

I only had enough cards for a few family members this year,

but consider yourself Christmas carded!

May you feel the love of our Savior during this special season!

6 Months

3 Months to go! Woop woop!

Her Latest

Hallie has been really into making these little treasures lately. She colors on little pieces of paper, puts stickers on them, then folds them up and gives them to me or puts them on the counter. She says, "presen!" It's so cute!

"W(r)ap, w(r)ap, w(rap!"

Also, a few phrases have been newly introduced to her vocabulary:

Be w(r)iiiiight back!

Ina minute (like when I say it's time to do something)

W(r)ight! Now! (I have to ignore this one or tell her to use her nice voice, and then she'll practically whisper)

Oh, and yesterday I heard her counting from the kitchen table... "one two fwee...time OUT." Then she said, "Time out! Ma ma! Time out! " AHEM......

I said, "Momma doesn't go to time out." Then I turned around and tried not to snicker! Oh man. I say all of these things to her so it's really not surprising.

Just call me Bargain Betty

Oh how I love a good deal.

I have been looking for a while now for red flats, and I didn't want a bright red, so I've been keeping my eyes peeled. Well, I recently stumbled across these at Target, which was unusual, because I typically keep fairly good tabs on Target's goods. They're a nice dark red, and my size was just sitting there, waiting to be taken home! Yay! Plus, they were on clearance for $8.50. What up.

Halloween!

We had a great Halloween! Hallie was so happy to wear her dancer outfit (thanks Holly!). Friday night we went to the church for chili & hot dogs & a trunk or treat (kids walk around the open trunks outside and get candy). Hallie loved the bounce-house, but it was pretty cold that night!

These first two are from Friday night. Hallie will now do a happy face and a sad face on command. So some of the smiles are by request (she say's "ee" for like 2 seconds and then looks away).

She was very anxious to go to the party on Halloween night--she kept looking out and seeing kids outside. Our neighbor has started doing a pre-trickortreat party potluck, so we had chili, hot dogs and lots of other fun food in their garage and a bunch of people came out. It was nice and relatively warm (65?).

Awwwww!

This is the 2nd U/S where we saw this little thing sucking her thumb. Or at least it seems that way--she always has little fingers up by her face! We love her already :)

Wreath

So, my only project for the last little while has been this fall wreath. I tried to copy this page from Pottery Barn. BTW, this issue is the best ever--that's why I had to keep it.

Now here's my version...

I spent probably $20 or more, and of course did it the hard way. I bought a garland of green leaves and painted e a c h l e a f...gold, brown, orange. I also painted some of the fruit because it was too bright (a teeny bit of a dark gold or a muted tone works great to make it cohesive). I got a stick wreath at Hobby Lobby for $5, some orange berry branches, and a couple of containers of fruit/fall leaves/gourds/pinecones at Walmart & Michaels. Then I hung it with 2 in ribbon and used a couple of tacks (thanks Carly) to attach it to the top of the door. I'm hoping the wreath is sturdy and the leaves won't blow away with the next windy storm, but we'll see. The only bad thing is that I can't see out the peep-hole, so I can't tell if the pest control guy is at the door or a friend who's about to see me without makeup (gasp!) and in PJs.