momiilu: It's about time!

All summer, I kept looking at my blog, thinking ugghhh I need to update, I'm sure I will have time next week to catch up, and next week would come and go and well, you get the idea. So somehow that turned into... 5 months, don't worry, I wasn't just sitting around all summer, we were busy.. VERY busy, we accomplished nearly everything on that list in my last post :)

Sooo lets see, I think I will play quick catch up with a top ten list :) in no particular order, just my top ten favorite things about the past 5 months!

1) HOUSE...

Yep we bought a house, our very first house as a family, and it's been awesome, we intended to get a ton done right away, but then that whole busy life thing kind of got in our way. So far we have accomplished painting Eliana's room,

it's beautiful and needs to be photographed so I can make a post about just it (quite possibly my favorite room in the whole house so far) My mom and I also pained our kitchen.. I jumped on the red bandwagon... dont worry it's not just any boring red, it is Dr Pepper Red,
(sorry for the bad picture, this was taken at 3 or 4 am at the end of a two day non stop paint a-thon with my mom, she REALLY needs to come back so we can do it again!)

and I love it :) We want to build an island and a little pantry cabinet and then the kitchen will be finished :)
We also painted the main wall that runs from the kitchen to the living room and my favorite part of the house, my bump out :)

We have since moved the fridge, and that is where the island will be :) CAN'T Wait!!

2) My second favorite thing about the past 5 months was only a few hours after we became home owners, The kids and I took a road trip to take Nana back to Tennessee (which explains that whole painting marathon ;)

While in TN my brother and his family came for a few days to visit too, and we got to spend some great family time together....

And even better our kids got to hang out,

And BEST of all, we discovered the worlds BEST ice cream...

It kind of became an obsession while I was there.... YUM!!

Other highlights of our trip was getting to go to my first ever concert, it was awesome, Trey Adkins, and seeing the most awesome firework display EVER, it was a GREAT Trip!

3) Fishing... we did alot of fishing, and I caught my first fish in probably.. oh 15 years, not that I have tried to catch a fish in those 15 years, but it was pretty cool to be the only one catching any fish that particular day!

4) Halloween.... It was awesome, our house was decorated all cute, and we pulled together some pretty great costumes again this year :)

5) PUMPKINS!!! Seriously LOVED all of our pumpkins, my two youngest cuties helped their uncle plant 5 hills with 3 seeds each in the middle of a corn field... and BOY did we have pumpkins, something like 60-70 or somewhere in that range! We had tons of pumpkin fun, we even hosted a fun pumpkin party, it was a blast! Our guests enjoyed Jack-o-lantern sloppy joes

Pumpkin Shakes, Pumpkin Treats, and of course Pumpkin Carving

6) Sever's Corn Maze

7) Pictures, If you know me, I'm rarely with out my "memory saver" and in the past few months I have gotten quite a few awesome pictures, most recently my own family, which was about 2 1/2 years over due for a nice family picture... LOVE is all I can say about almost every picture taken durring that shoot ;)

8) Projects, I've been doing a TON of projects, I have recently developed an addiction to oil rubbed bronze spray paint, I gathered numerous picture frames and went to town on them making them all match :) I almost have my little photo wall of my nieces and nephews complete :) but my favorite project so far has been my Family Rules Subway Art, it was about 2 weeks of laborous love put into that baby, and the results were WELL worth all the hard work! Now if I could just get my hands on a ladder, so I can paint my entryway and get it hung on the wall...

9) CUB SCOUTS, GIRL SCOUTS, FOOTBALL, DANCE... my babies are growing up!!

10) Red Rock Bible Camp!! ITs almost always the highlight of my summer, meeting new friends, catching up with old ones.... Connecting with God...