Fall Decorating

Fall gets overlooked so many times by the upcoming events of Christmas.  But I love the fall and Thanksgiving and especially the richness of the Fall colors.  Oranges, reds, yellows, purples... beautiful.  Here are some of my favorite spots around the house.

We decided this year to do a "Thankful" tree.  So every day, the children get to pick a leaf and write down one thing they are thankful for.  I'll post a picture at the end of the month to show how full it got.  We are using an existing ficus tree to pin the leaves to.  

Fall Festival

Peyton's Elementary does an annual fall festival and it's one of their biggest fundraisers. They have all kinds of games, bounce houses, face painting, karaoke, and food. We had a good time seeing classmates and meeting parents and catching up with old friends. Makenna did a great job sitting through her face painting. She also likes to "cheese" for the camera. She's such a little ham...much like Peyton was at her age. Although he is not much of one anymore. It's hard to get a good picture of him these days. I have to take what I can get!

Just Call Me Betty Crocker

...well...not really. But, when we got home from the apple farm, we had a peck of apples I had to do something with. I decided to make my first ever apple pie. We picked a variety of apples today so I picked out some of each type then cored and peeled them.
Then mixed them with the usual sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg and about 45 minutes later, I opened the oven to pure deliciousness! Just beautiful!
YUMMY!

Nivens Apple Farm

Our Sunday School group at church made a trip over to Nivens Apple Farm this afternoon. The kids got to play on the playground and of course we picked a peck of apples. Makenna has really been into "Old McDonald" lately so it was fun singing along with her and looking at the animals. Enjoy the show!

West Virginia Trip

These are just some random pictures from our annual girls weekend in West Virginia.

Aunt Demma, Mom, Jeanine, Aunt Wanda,
me, and Makenna.

Aunt Demma's kitty named Lucky. Lucky was Makenna's entertainment for the
weekend and she learned how to say Meow, "e-ow, e-ow".

Limo ride to Kocomo restaurant on the river.

Early morning play outside in the carport in order to buy some more sleep time for my loved ones. Makenna is very energetic at 7am. Fortunately Lucky didn't need coffee to get movin'!

Makenna's first face painting at the Harvest Moon Festival. (pink ladybug)

Aunt Demma and Makenna taking a break at the festival.
Makenna was enjoying her "out of the stroller time".