Happy Halloween!

from our little cowboy vampire....

Diva...


temper tantrum...


pouting....


accepting...


posing...

Happy Birthday, Honey!

Happy Birthday, Boydie! We love you and hope you have a great day!

<3 me

Happy Rudy Day!!!

It's the 25th and while I'm thinking of Christmas I'm not accomplishing much.

Football has squeezed the life out of me this weekend. Iowa winning with seconds left on the clock last night to remain undefeated and Minnesota loosing thanks to some bad reffing to go 6 & 1.

We'll see what the rest of the day holds.

Rudy Day is coming...

and it's coming up quick.

Rudy day is an idea I found out about online. For someone who loves Christmas this is right up my alley. Rudy day is celebrated on the 25th of each month. It's a day to work on Christmas projects - be it gifts or items for your home.

This Rudy day I'm hoping to watch White Christmas and listen to my favorite carols while I work on some of the following projects or maybe something totally different. :)

* Working out the *new* decorations I want to use in the bathroom. Going to move my tinsel tree here and I found some great vintage cards in my stash with PINK Christmas trees. Need to figure out how to frame them and what kind of grouping I want them in.
- and I need to figure out where all of my ceramics are going. I'm thinking the spare room but we'll see.
* working out decorations for the dining room and what table cloths and table decorations to use - this is usually my Santa room so lots of ideas floating around in my head.
* Christmas quilt - not sure if I'm up to it but I might break it out.
* Cowboy stocking - it's been in process for 2 years now.....sigh!
* ideas for Christmas cards - how many are we sending, do we want picture cards, do I want to make any?
* maybe some Ornies/bowl fillers - I saw an idea for cute snowmen and I think this will look cool on my kitchen counter. (Anything to help keep it clean. hehehe).

I am so excited for this holiday, even more than usual.

There's one more Halloween project that I want to finish up. Hoping I can get that done on Sat. Then I can focus on Christmas on Sun.

Cold & rainy day

There's one thing I love about cold & rainy & windy days.

Coming home and curling up under my favorite fleece blanket with my boy stretched out in my lap.


The second thing I love about cold & rainy & windy days.

The heated mattress pad on the bed - I stay toasty warm.


The third thing I love about days like this.

Curling up with the husband and the dog.


Here the high temp was 41* and the low was 40*. I'm not sure I remember a day with the temps that close.


That third thing is calling, it's time for bed. oh the weather lady said snow showers are possible...winter is coming.

Thinking of Danny

My scrapbooking friend Donnann lost her little boy Danny last fall. My thoughts and prayers are with her, her husband, their daughter Madison, extended family & friends.

Danny was an adorable little blonde haired boy. He loved the Cars movie. He was too young to be taken from his family.

We will be watching the Cars movie this weekend and remembering the red balloons we released last year in his memory.

PBS show & baseball

There's a show on PBS tonight called Crafts in America. Not sure if it's a series. We watched the first show and it's fairly interesting. I switched over to watch the Twins and Boyd started chanting craft show, craft show, craft show.

He said it's really interesting and he wanted to watch the second show.

I love that about him. He is one of my best supporters and will honestly tell me his opinion.


Let's go Twins!