These are a few of my favorite things

Do you ever go through times in your life where you just have things that you're obsessed with? You know, the times in your life when there is a tv show you can't miss or a store you always find yourself in? Well here is my list:

1- Top Chef on Bravo. I watched a marathon on Bravo of this contest and got totallly caught up oon the shows and haven't been able to stop watching since. I have even watched the exit interviews online. Can we say obsessed? Good thing the finale is next Wednesday. I won't have to watch it anymore then.

2- Downy Simple Pleasures softener Rose and Lavendar. I want to dream everytime I smell this wonderful scent. It is so not my style and I don't know why I bought that overpowering smell of flowers, but I love it now and love walking into my laundry room because it is like a bouquet without the vase or the flowers.

3- Brach's candy corn pumpkins. I think I am going to pull an Amos with these things and have to run to the dentist if I chew into another one. But they are so stinkin good and they are only here once a year so I have to eat them and eat them and eat them. MMMMM.... The kids love them too and they found my stash. Dang.

4- Poppy Ink. THis of course has been a continuous obsession and I have to check the MB every morning in search of what women I don't know from across the country and even across oceans are saying. Totally dumb. I love the ideas though and she did an online class last week that I took and put me in the mood for scrapbooking. Can Christmas come soon enough? I shouldn't say that in case we don't make it.

5- Cappucino cabin. McDonald's coffee has officially been replaced with a cup o coffee from the locally owned free standing coffe stand for a cup of coffee when I am on the run in the mornings. We have a McDonald's 7 blocks from our house and I HATE it. THey are the SLOWEST MCDonald's in the world. Really. In the world. I'll get my blood pressure up if I talk about it anymore. So I won't.

6- Amy Butler quilt. I finnished the edges and love my new quilt. I just have to put the back on and have it quilted by someone. It is so big and I can't wait to wrap up in the creativity and awesomeness of a fabric designing genius. I want to make five more for all of you, but I know you probably wouldn't have the same appreciation for it. Darn.

This pic shows the border of the quilt. I used the strip all the way around and then my favorite print of them all around the edge.

7- Sensual Amber. I love this scent from Bath and Body works. It smells so yummy and I want it all over my house. So I bought the wallflowers of it! Except for in my laundry room because that is reserved for the Downy aroma.

And that pretty much sums up my boring life. Oh yeah. We painted our house. At least the front. And I'm not quite done with that even. It looks way better than the pink. We took our front hand rails off and are replacing them along with the light fixtures and some more landscaping. We also need to replace the front door. I think we may do that at the same time as we do the roof and the deck next spring. I'll just paint it for now. It takes so long to do all of this stuff. We don't want to put anything on credit for it so we are just doing what we can that is not like thousands of dollars at a time. Oh well, we are grateful for what we have.

Here's a better idea of the color. Sort of a chocolate milk color.

I was going through my pics and forgot about this cute little picture I took of Ella on her first day of preschool. Is that not the best door for a first day of school shot? I love it!

Fall in SD

Well it is fall again. I totally love fall. No humidity, no bugs, no air conditioning. We went to the apple orchard on Saturday with the Bells. Totally fun. Kids had a ball, but it was quite nippy out. We did a hayride out to the orchard and picked tons of apples. I made mom and apple pie for her birthday on Tuesday. It was so stinkin good. I would have to say that pies are about the only thinkg I am good at making. Thanks to Momma Dar who taught me all her tricks. Here are some pics of the festivities. I had Sally's camera (Rebel) which of course takes fabuloso pictures. If only I had time to figure out the Photoshop program Corriekate gave me.





I guess I haven't blogged since Ella had her birthday party. She had five little friends over who all came in their best princess attire. We made crowns, hit the pinata, had a treasure hunt in rice (thanks Guru), and my mom made the most beautiful and yummy castle cake. Gabe insisted that he be included in the party, which was fine. He put on his cape and crown from when he was a king for harvest festival a few years back. Here are some pics of the party. I still need to take some of the so cute invite I made too. It turned out awesome.
Isn't this cake like the coolest thing you have ever seen? Mom spent her day off from work making it because Ella "needed" it for her party. So cute.
All the pretty princesses minus Connolly. They had so much fun together.
Here they are as I am telling them abou tthe treasure hunt. They found earrings, necklaces, and rings in the rice. I blindfolded them while the hunted and they had a blast. Plus it killed a lot of party time.


I listed my first house two Fridays ago and we finished the negotiations exactly one week later. It is to close on Nov. 1st and I am pretty stoked about the whole thing. Look at this right
here if you would like to take a look at my listing.

Mom and I did take a quilt class and I made the top of an Amy Butler quilt. I will post some pics. I totally love it and it is going to look oh so fabulous in my living room. You're going to be jealous.