Never Underestimate the Craftiness!

My dear friend, Katie got this idea off pinterest and when she showed me how cute hers turned out, I wanted to make one too!  The pin directions were very good and easy to follow- for under $12 I have a new fall yarn wreath!

Source: danielleburkleo.com via Liz on Pinterest

Here is my new fall yarn wreath!

Wordless Wednesday

Spontaneous Surprise

Saturday morning at 9:50am, Stephen asked if we should go to Disney on Ice- there was an 11AM show.  I had just started making pumpkin waffles and I looked at him like he had 3 heads! After giving it some thought, I decided we could skip naps and go to the 2:30pm show.   So we did!  Stephen found a coupon code online (he speaks my love language) and purchased the tickets.  We decided to keep it a surprise for the girls- they just knew we were going on a family adventure.  Some of their guesses were to a park, the zoo, a bobcats game or to the Panthers.

They both really enjoyed it- Lily Kate is a Disney on Ice veteran- it was her third time going.  And though I packed some snacks - she had to have a snow cone.  Aubrey was a little overwhelmed at first.  Cars was the first scene and it was a little noisy- she says she was scared :)  But she enjoyed the rest of it and waved to Mickey and the gang when they came out.

I love Stephen for being such an amazing Daddy.  He loves to spoil his girls and do fun and spontaneous things with them.  It turned out to be a very memorable Saturday!  Thanks, Babe!

The Simple Things

Aubrey has a new favorite game that she and Daddy created.  She holds this wooden fish above her head and someone throws a ping pong ball at it.  She LOVES this and will retrieve the ball over and over.  Tonight she got it out to play with Daddy when he got home :)

Rockin Out with Mr. Nigel

The girls love to go hear Mr. Nigel sing and he performs at Toys & Co on a weekly basis.  We went to the Park Road location on Thursday at 4.  He performs at the Cotswold Toys & Co on Friday's at 11am.  It so much fun.  This week he threw a dance party!

Aubrey danced on Rodi the horse!

 On the way home, I looked in the rearview mirror and this is what I saw:

Such sweet sisters!

Sweetest Song

Aubrey singing "This is the Day" to Honey.

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24

Festival in the Park

The fall weather has arrived!  We decided to get out and enjoy it and Festival in the Park was the perfect place!

Checking out wings of different birds

Lily Kate chose to have her arm painted instead of her face

Aubrey held super still to get her butterfly 

Who can pass up free ice cream samples?

 On Lily Kate's first day of school, I asked Aubrey what she wanted to do.  Her answer was to go on an adventure and ride a choo choo.  Since that day, I have been trying to figure out how to fulfill her wish ;)  I was so excited when I saw this ride at the festival!  She finally got to ride her choo choo!

Run a Mile (or 3) in My Shoes

I've been training with Couch to 5K most of the summer, so today I ran in the Showmars 5K benefitting Levine Children's Hospital!  Beautiful day and great cause!

On our way to the starting line

After the race!  

I finished in the middle of the pack.  I think I was 178 out of 291.  Not too shabby-but definitely leaves room for improvement.  I say I think because I forgot to get my microchip!  Oops!

Carb loading for the Kids Fun Run

 It was an hour between the time that I finished and the start of the Fun Run.  They had a bounce house, DJ and all kinds of snacks.  Lily Kate didn't want to eat or do anything because she didn't want to miss the fun run.  I finally convinced her to eat some snacks!

She was so excited about her medal-
she wore it all day long!

Latest Pinterest Project

One of my sweet CBS sisters asked me to paint a canvas for her grandchildren's room in her home.  She saw this on Pinterest and asked if I could do a similar one.  

I'm really happy with how it turned out!  The step-by-step directions from Beyond the Screen Door were super helpful.  I was unable to get a overhead projector so I free handed my font.

I count this as a Pinterest Success!  What Pinterest inspired projects have you done lately?

Birthday Boy!

Stephen celebrated his 30th birthday this year!  I decided to have a surprise party for him and because of the Panther's season opener we had a reverse surprise party.  Everyone showed up at our house and then I pulled out all the party supplies!  Surprise!  

He really was surprised!  (It helped that we celebrated on Saturday (his actual birthday at The Liberty with both of our families).

Then Sunday afternoon, his parents and several of our friends came to the house to watch the game.  The only thing that would have made it better would have been if the Panthers won.

The birthday boy!

Paras & Shivani

Katie, Carter & Wes

My Dad

Me and Lily Kate

For those not interested in the game,
Aubrey served as the entertainment