Sneak peek

The dollar store.

The. Best. Store. EVER!

I want to do a little decor outside for the fall but we have a limited budget. So off to the dollar store my family went. Except for the mums I'm going to get, everything else was from there.

Here are couple sneak peaks. I really hope it all turns out.

This 3-tier wreath would have cost at least 30$. I made it for 10$, if that. 

 Thanks Carrie for these hydrangeas! I hope they last for another 4 weeks!   ;) 

I can't wait to do the rest and buy the mums. FYI: walmart has mums on sale for 2.47$! 

I'm really excited for Christmas already too. 

3rd annual pumpkin patch

The pumpkin patch. That's what we call it. It's actually Center Grove Apple Orchard, but who cares about logistics.

For three autumns we have gone to the pumpkin patch as a group. We as in my life group ladies and their kids. It's so much fun. It's crazy to see pictures from the first year till now. Unfortunately, we did not get a group shot and we only had 3 families there.

But have no fear!!!! We usually go twice, to two different patches. So maybe, more families will come and we can get a good one!

So here are TONS of pictures of our wonderful time. My mom was able to tag along and that made it even more fun.

First year

 Second year

 Third year! Levi and Caleb are the two boys next to the standing boy (ben) in the second year photo. Look how they have grown! 

That's Nevaeh waaaaayyy down there.

project fails and exciting firsts

So Nevaeh doesn't experience as many firsts anymore. Growing up does that.

But Wednesday night she had Awanas for the first time. She didn't want to go at first, but wanted to stay home with daddy since we don't see as much. Her tune was a different story once we got there. She even asked me when I was leaving.

I loved seeing her there. She was in her element. School is one of her favorite things and everyday she wants to do school. She takes after her mama in that aspect. She soaks up everything she can.

She told me a little while into the "school" time, she asked me to leave. HAHA! Miss Independent. I don't mind, though, but I don't always give her want she wants. So I stayed for a little longer. Then I went upstairs for little bit and was able to have a wonderful chat with my good friend and sister (in-Christ) Jessica White.

Nevaeh did wonderful and we can not wait to go next week.

Project fail!

So, I try different things through out the week. Whether ideas from pinterest or projects with the kids. Well, both were total fails this week. 

Paper mache fail. The kids DID NOT like it. Gray hates getting messy (except when he's eating) and Nevaeh just wasn't interested. So we made this huge mess, only to clean it up 2 minutes later. Well, I still have to wash the tarp 2 days later. 

 These are carrot chips. They actually would have turned out fine, but I added WAY too much olive oil and WAY, WAY too much salt. I will try these next time and adjust my sprinkling a little.