Best Weekend In a While

What a fun weekend! I was able to spend some quality time with my good friend, Amber, to celebrate my birthday early on Friday night. We had amazing margaritas  dinner at Zapatas, and my favorite Pumpkin Spice Latte after. She even gave me my favorite WoodWick candle! I love her.
  Saturday was pretty laid back, and included a Mommy/Daddy/Baby trip to Wal-Mart, where we lost one of EK's new shoes. We retraced the entire shopping route to no avail, and left with a half-shod baby. It's the new look, you know!  We picked up some compost to put around our trees in the front yard, and rode the Kubota around with Wylie in tow spreading the dirt.

I had just enough left over soil to fix up one of my junk finds from last weekend!

I picked up this metal animal feeder for $5 last weekend while EK and I were shopping for decorations for our home.  I knew immediately what I wanted to do with it! I placed it between two lounger chairs on our deck, so it will serve as a table for drinks, etc. once I remove the huge pumpkin from the top.  I poked a few holes through the bottom for drainage using an ice pick. I recommend a drill, but Ryan is not too fond of me pulling out the power tools. I filled it from the top opening with dirt, then planted the kale and pansies.  

Next weekend, I have plans for these.

I hope that everyone had a great weekend, and I can't wait to see pictures of everyone's little ones in their Halloween costumes! Here's hoping for LOTS of candy for everyone!

Weekend Recap

We made it through another weekend! Sometimes I wonder- Why does the weekend fly by so quickly, but the work week sooo slowly? Thankfully, we don't have to list too many "reds" in this recap!

Friday:

• Put away all of Ryan's freshly washed winter clothes
• Finish decorating the front porch for Halloween (Solely for myself... you don't get many trick-or-treaters when you live in the middle of nowhere)
• Do EK's laundry
• Clean the kitchen, empty junk drawers

Saturday:

• Hit a few local shops to find things to decorate our new living room shelf  (We got some  old books and an antique radio for next to nothing!)
• ANOTHER baby shower. I'm surrounded by Fertile Myrtles. 

Sunday:

• Weekly CVS trip See my Sunday post!
• I'm most excited about this! EK and I are going to the pumpkin patch with my mom.  You can bet on lots of photos!
• Plan my lunches for the upcoming workweek I planned them, and they were gross. Whatever.

Somewhere in There:

• Update EK's clothing drawers. Out with the tiny, in with the monstrous.
• Hang my Pinterest inspired-pallet shelf  I am trying to decide if I even like this thing..
• Print photos from my camera

All in all, a lot was accomplished! Saturday, EK and I spent the majority of the day in town shopping. We met Ryan for lunch, and then headed to a baby Shower. EK was absolutely nuts at this point, and crawled all over the place, trying to rip into gifts and eat them. 

She spent the night with Ryan's parents Saturday night. It had been a while, and it was so hard to leave her! I am not real sure how we will do next month when we go to San Diego and leave her for a few days.  Ryan and I finally got the pictures and new shelf hung up in our living room, and it looks so much better!

Icky IPhone picture of before. I will post a separate entry later with the new look!

Sunday, EK and I met my mom and granny at the pumpkin patch! We had such a good time, and Mom took lots of great pictures of the day!

Granny Skeet, Me, and EK

EK was a little preoccupied with all of the straw.

Ready to go pick her pumpkin!

For me!?

Oh my gosh. I love pumpkins!

I am so ready for Halloween this year. It has always been one of my favorite holidays, and I can't wait to carve our pumpkins with EK.

What are your favorite Halloween traditions?