{my weekend in pictures}

I had an absolutely wonderful weekend away from football with my mama at the lake.  We stopped in Cockrell, Missouri on the way down for their Annual Christmas Open House! Can you say cutest little town ever? The area we went had so many cute little kitchen stores.  I imagine it would be what Heaven looks like!!! My sweet mama bought me a nickel cake stand with beaded edges, it looks similar to my tray that I LOVE that's currently on the coffee table. I couldn't get a picture of it because it a Christmas present & she wouldn't let me take it out of the bag. Wink wink... :)

Christmas...which I love!

Yummy Damifino (Damn If I Know) wine --Madre decided she needed a case! 

Cole Camp, MO

We made little homemade dog treats.  They were a BIG hit!

I hope you enjoyed my weekend in pictures, because let me just tell you...I did!

{fall around our home & mantle reveal}

Two posts in 2 days...what?! I'm gettin' good at this whole blogging thing! The best part of this post is at the bottom...so I'll be ok with you scrolling alllll the way down and then coming back up...just sayin.

My all-time favorite season is here! It's so cozy and the food is hearty and yummy, and the clothes are cute and comfy, and the weather is just perfect!! It's after the extreme heat and before the extreme cold that we get here in Kansas City. And of course, next weekend we get to take our annual family Christmas picture!

In honor of the season, and because we went to get our pumpkins punkins and mums Saturday, I decided to post some fun, festive fall stuff around our home:

Our new window treatment.  Placemats from Pier 1! Such a great idea!

Our newest favorite coffee. 

And I can't forget our beautiful mum! My hubby kindly planted it for me :) It just isn't fall without a mum or two!

Those are just some pics I took of things that remind me of fall....Here is our very simple but oh-so fall mantle for this year.  I like decorating like this because it will transition from the beginning of fall through Halloween to Thanksgiving.  My best friend and I were shopping for pumpkins yesterday and she said something about soaking them in some sort of a bleach mixture and they will last longer.  I didn't have the time but what a great idea! Maybe next year, we will see how long they last........for now I am positively LOVING our fall mantle!

I just love me some FALL! I think everyone does..........

{It's Fall, Ya'll}

Happy 1st Day of FALL everyone!! I love fall & just about every little thing that happens in fall.  Pumpkin patch, apple orchard, crisp air, pretty leaves, pumpkin spice lattes, the clothes, also we take our {little} family Christmas pictures, which I hope will have a new little person in them next Christmas ;)  but at least we have Calvin this year to add to the tradition that started last fall! It really is so fun to get family pictures around this time every year, so you can look back and see how your family changes through the years!


In other news, I'm so excited to finally be able to announce that I found pillows for our bed! About a week ago I bought some flannel sheets in gray....my hubs & I were talking the other day about how hard it is to get out of bed now due to our mattress pad/heated blanket/flannel sheets together.  My guess is it will get harder the colder it gets....that's what she said...I just couldn't resist. Although it probably would be the opposite...... and you thought this was a family blog. Ha!


Did you know gray pillows are very hard to come by these days? I looked and looked and looked some more and could not find ANY! It needed to be just the right shade of gray.  Guess where I finally found some.....?

ETSY!!!

To be honest, I never really understood how this website worked.  I googled "gray pillow" nothing even remotely our style.  UGH! I finally went to this wonder of a website and found just what I was looking for: Here's what I had pictured.  I just love the mixture of patterns & who doesn't love a little chev (chevron). ya know? Anyway, just thought I would post a quickie on our bed progress, which isn't much but at least we got the pillows! 

 I have a post coming up about our ugly fan.....because I bought a new one :)

I hope you all enjoy your first weekend of fall as it is supposed to be absolutely GORGEOUS!!