DIY Fall Pictures

It's no secret that in our economy you need to stretch and save your money. This is especially true with just one income. I love pictures of my boys, but a photographer comes with a hefty price tag that I'm just not willing to pay. I would rather spend that money on our house or save it. So, we bought a professional camera about 4 years ago when Karson was born. It has been worth every penny. 

I love outdoor pictures. Especially fall pictures in the country. These were taken in our backyard near our chicken house. It was so fun to make the boys laugh and get their smiles. 

Enjoy!

Karson Bradley - 4.5 years old

Kipton Lee - 3 years old

Thank you GOD for these wonderful gifts. 

Fall Front Porch

My favorite seasons are Spring and Fall. Everything about fall is so nice. I love decorating for all holidays, but fall is just so much fun! 

Out of our pumpkin patch, we had 2 pumpkins make it. One of which hasn't turned orange yet. 

Our whole front yard is leaves, which I love. It's so pretty! 

A little fall flower bed as your driving up to our house. I love this scarecrow my mom painted. 

We visited a greenhouse yesterday with he neatest things for fall. I'll have to share soon. 

Thanksgiving Day

We had a good Thanksgiving Day. We had "lunch" at our house around noon and my parents and grandma came. It was nice and mom and I split the cooking. It was very good!

 

 

Guess who didn't want in the picture? Yep this screaming cat :)

 

 

He wanted on his bulldozer and not in the family Thanksgiving picture. O well :)

 

I made the boys turkey shirts this year. They turned out really well.

 

 

They love digging in my mulch even though they are told not too....but it was keeping them busy while I was finishing the cooking so I didn't mind.

 

 

 

Karson is really loving the Wii. He loves to play Mario Cart and Kipton "pretends" to play with Karson. Karson is really good at it, but I don't like him play a lot so he really enjoyed it today while I was finishing up the cooking.

 

 

We had a great dinner and very thankful for family.

 

 

We visited Kevin's parents for their dinner around 5 and stayed for a few hours. The boys went to bed early. I think they were exhausted from all of the excitement.

 

Hope everyone had a great day!

Enjoying the last of fall

Miranda who blogs over at Our Nesting Place has a link up for Fall/Thanksgiving decor. I am a days late but finally got some pictures. Some of them you may have seen before.

 

Here is my current centerpiece on my table. I change it alot but keeping it this way until Thanksgiving. I LOVE Longaberger and find anyway to put them around the house.

 

 

I put some pumpkins up on top of the kitchen cabinets. I have Longaberger baskets all around the top of the cabinets. We are really wanting to paint our kitchen and living room but still haven't found time. Hoping that will get done before Christmas :)

 

 

 

 

I found this really pretty "Give Thanks" picture frame from Hobby Lobby for 50% off. It isn't a good picture of it because of the bad glare on the fram but I love it! I put one of the boys fall pictures in it.

 

 

A small table in my kitchen. I love these new picture frames that I picked up from Walmart.

They look so rustic and country that almost look like acorns.

 

 

 

A little corner of the living room. I should probably put the jack o laterns up but just waiting to put it all up together.

 

 

 

My little indian girl. I love her, and so do the boys! I am surprised she is still in one piece. She gets beat up alot while they are waiting for me to finish getting dressed.

 

 

My mums and ferns really did good this year. I was so surprised!!

 

 

I am enjoying this last week of fall decor. I don't put out our Christmas until after Thanksgiving or near the 1st of December. I feel like it confuses the boys and I want them to know what Thanksgiving is and not get all wrapped up into the Christmas too early.

 

I am excited to decorate for Christmas but really trying to wait and enjoy our week of Thanksgiving.

We all have soo much to be thankful for!

Daily Life - Nov.

 

It's been such a BUSY fall! I can't believe we are almost ready for Thanksgiving and then it will be the busiest holiday of the year. How did we get here so soon?

 

Nothing much to really blog about other than being busy in the everyday life.

 

You know those mom things that all need done. Preschool, church, Mother's Club events, grocery shopping, cleaning, cooking, bathing, and playing with the boys mostly.  

 

 

We were ready to go vote on this day. We were very brave and took the boys with us and then waited in line for 1 hour!! Can you say worst situation ever. 2 toddler boys and a 1 hour wait with older people who want it quiet :) But they were good. They mostly entertained the people around us by talking their legs off. Then a few little girls came in with their ipad and the boys were good as gold.

 

We were both thankful to vote!

 

 

We have another busy week. This boy will have a long break from preschool for his fall break so I'm going to have to find some new ideas for entertainment now that it's getting even colder here in WV.

 

I want to find an empty refrigerator box for them to build a fort in. I have found many ideas on Pinterest but don't really know where I will find an empty one.

 

Any ideas??

 

House full of boys

Kevin has been hunting a lot since season started. His friend Pup from work has hunted with him a few times and they hunted for squirrel last weekend. Pup ended up staying with Kevin for 2 days hunting in different places and they had a blast.

 

The boys and I had a Halloween to go to this day and when we got home around 1 we had this on our back porch. Horray :)

 

 

 

To say that Karson loved this would be a complete understatement. HE WAS BESIDE HIMSELF!

He talks about it everyday and even told his preschool teachers. Lovely :)

 

 

It has been all about hunting here. Especially because Karson was a hunter for Halloween and has his own camo attire. Kipton had to have some too....you know how that goes :)

 

 

 

The boys LOVE Pup! I think he is one of their favorite people. For 2 complete days that Kevin and him were off work they wrestled the boys, worked outside with them, hunted, ate, slept, ate, worked, hunted, ate, slept, and yeah ate!! With 4 boys in the house I could barely keep up with their eating.

 

 

They had a blast with the boys! Karson can't wait until Pup comes back for a "sleepover". I know it sounds so weird but guys don't care where they have to stay if it means they get to go hunting early in the morning and in the evenings. He slept on the couch and had 2 little boys giving him early wake up calls :) I guess this was just a taste of what life will be like with my 2 boys and their friends over. 

 

They are already planning their next hunting trip for this Tuesday and Wednesday! Lord helps us!

Pumpkin Carving Playgroup

It's been scheduled for a few months that I would host the Pumpkin Carving playgroup for our Mother's Club. So I got 15 pumpkins ready for our little friends to come over and carve them out in the garage. I know the pictures are no fun because they are of a yucky garage....BUT all of that mess with toddlers is easier outside.

 

 

I thought the boys would REALLY enjoy this...but I was a bit surprised when they suddenly left me to do all of the work. Neither of them wanted to get the "goop" out. I was so shocked because MESSY is their thing. They wanted to play with their friends who also left their momma's to do all of the work, but we had a great time carving and talking while the kids played.

 

 

 

 

I managed to take a few pictures amongst the chaos of trying to watch my 2 boys and carve a pumpkin, take pictures, and talk to my mommy friends.

 

 

The hit of the playgroup was this corn table. I got the idea from a local pumpkin patch and we had our water table that we put up for the winter but I dug it back out and loaded it with Kevin's deer corn. The kids LOVED it. If you are OCD about messes this is not for you. That is why it's NOT for me and I tried to stay away from that side of the garage. My Type A personality kicks in and I want to constantly clean the little corn kernels off of the floor but I wanted them to have fun and not worry about the mess.

 

 

Kipton had a blast with his friends!

 

 

The kids were happy and hipped up on cupcakes and yummy Halloween snacks.

 

 

I'm so thankful for the Mother's Club. Another fun festive playgroup for both the kiddos and the mommy's. Next week is our Halloween costume party! Can't wait :)

 

 

Karson says = SUCCESS!