Good friends and pumpkins :)

Pumpkin patches are so much fun and this year we got to share our trip with some very dear friends! 

I absolutely LOVE this picture! Caden's face cracks me up. "Yeah I'm riding in a wagon with this cutie!" :)  

 A little blurry in this picture but I just love his smile :) He couldnt get enough of the inflatables!

Bounce baby Bounce!  

Looking for the perfect pumpkin 

 Hay ride!!  These are our friends Parker and Sarah and thier sweet daughter Abigail.  We love them so much!  I thank God everyday for blessing us with thier amazing friendship. :)

Peek a boo!! They had the most fun playing with the windows! It was practically impossible to get them to both look through a window at the same time but it made for a lot of laughs!  

Seriously how cute are they?  I wish we lived closer to them so they could grow up buddies.  

Yay Mickey! Caden's favorite.  

Yep had to give him a hug and a kiss too :)  

"Wow Cars!!"  

Hey Abigail can you pick up the pumpkin? My back is killing me. ;)

Haha! I hope yall had a fun halloween!

Tuesday Trade off with Uncommon Designs!

Hey everyone!  Blogging has quickly become one of my favorite hobbies because not only do I get to share things I do with everyone all at once, but I meet new people and find fabulous new ideas all the time! There are so many talented women out there! 




Today I am particitpating in Uncommon Design's Tuesday Trade off! They have such unique ideas so I'm so excited for them to be sharing this fall decor idea with you guys!

Hi Love, Laugh, and Create readers!  We are so excited to be swapping with Jessi for our weekly series, The Tuesday Trade-Off.  Today we would like to share our Pumpkin Topiary and a few others with you! 

Trish and I just love decorating our homes for Halloween!

Today we would like to show you a trio of pumpkin topiaries and first up is Trish's Halloween  Pumpkin Topiary...

This adorable project was based on this inspiring photo...

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This topiary really makes quite a statement on your front porch both in the daytime hours and night as well. The light that shines through is just stunning! Wanna make your own? Here are a few hints and tips to help you out....

• Make sure you buy your faux pumpkins with a coupon, they can be really pricey!
• Match up your pumpkins in the store to make sure they are going to fit together well!
• Make sure you are outside when you cut the bottoms out and drill the holes in the pumpkins, as all that faux pumpkin stuff can be very messy!
• Wire, glue, or some other way, attach the pumpkins together to ensure that a child  storm does not knock it over!
• Trish simply used a black sharpie to draw her tree!
• Lastly, get creative! Trish added a spooky black crow to hers, to tie in her other porch decor!

Here are two other fabulous topiaries we love, to stir your creativity....

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The possibilities are truly endless for creating your own, unique little pumpkins! We hope we have inspired you to create your own!!

Thanks for having us today! 

Trish and Bonnie

Fabulous idea dont you think?! I hope yall go check them out because they have so many great ideas!

Wreath makeover for fall!!

I'm really excited about this re-do.  Yall remember this wreath?

Now it looks like this!

It was starting to look pretty shabby. Some gumballs were starting to fall off and the moss was looking really yucky.   So I set it in the garage for a couple weeks to figure out what to do with it. 

If I had the forsight I would have loved to have an extra wreath with the gumballs in thier natural color. That would have been perfect for fall.  Oh-well. I decided to go with gold and wasnt sure it would go on well over the blue but I gave it a shot and voila! It looks gorgeous. It did take quite a bit of spray paint though to get in all those little crevasses to cover up the blue. 

I started with gluing back on the gumballs that fell off.  Then scraped off the moss. 

Coincidentally my friend Lindsay dropped off a great bag of random fabric and scraps and inside was this great green color that would go great with Gold! (after reading this back to myself did I say 'great' enough?!)There's also a lot of other pretty patterns in there that I can't wait to find uses for. Thanks Lindsay!  So I cut strips of it and wrapped the M.

I also cut a new piece of burlap for the bow since the other one was so frayed. 

Ta-da!

So what do you think?  Have you already started decorating for fall? 

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Happpy Halloween!

Aren't holidays just way more exciting with kids?!  I think so.  I was so pumped for Caden to have his first trick or treating experience this year!  Our city designated Saturday night as trick or treating night so since we get so many trick or treaters I opted to just stay home and hand out candy.  And the church I attend MOPS at was hosting a trunk or treat tonight so I thought we would just do that. But I'm pretty disappointed in myself for not remembering the time :( Good thing he's still too young to know that he missed out! LOL.  It's not like he would get to eat the candy anyway.  Maybe some of the soft stuff but he's still too young for most candy.  And then I would have to eat it and that would be a bad thing ;)

Here are some pictures I took at the pumpkin patch though and some of him in his costume that he wore to school on Friday!  He did get to trick or treat around all the classrooms but I didn't get to see :( Hopefully the teachers got some good pictures.

Big Pumpkins! 

The only kind of smile I could capture.  He liked the doggy decorations :)

SO handsome. His eyes change like his daddy's!  But have a lot more brown in them from me.

Felt like tasting a rock. So I let him :)

He liked the little pumpkins

Getting ready for school! 

My little cowboy eating an apple :) Check out those little spurs!  So glad he kept the hat on long enough for a couple pictures.

I Hope yall had a Happy Halloween!!  I can't believe tomorrow is NOVEMBER already!! 

Fall Decor

As promised here are some pictures of the fall decorations I've put up around the house.

Publix had bundles of wheat and awesome fall gourds and corn and such for cheap so I set this up in the dining room.  Simple and and natural.

Also in the dining room, I put a garland of berries around the chandelier. I love this one because I can keep it up all through the holidays. It flows from fall to Christmas beautifully!

I spray painted a few pumpkins gold and painted different designs on them with acrylic paint. You'll see them set up throughout the rest of my decor :)

Here's my front porch!  By far my favorite.  I saw people decorate with haystacks last year and always thought it was sooo cute!  So this year I was determined to do it too.  I got two from a local garden center for only $3.75 each! The big pumpkins from the Commissarry only $3.00 a piece and then the mums from Wal-mart!  I even shopped around at different places for mums and would you believe wal-mart not only had the cheapest, but also the prettiest? Awesome. 

I love this mum because there's 3 different colors.  Also notice the gold pumpkin!  This one I didn't paint a design on. I couldn't think of a design so I just chose to leave one plain gold.

My wreath. I got it last year but I can't remember from where.... Sorry. Most likely Target or wal-mart though ;)

My cute little scarecrow people. I've had them for a couple years. Love these guys because they're so cheap!  If for some reason they get ruined no biggie just get more next year!

One of the other gold pumpkins. I just painted a leafy vine around it.

I hung this wreath up on the mirror in our living room. I didn't do a whole lot of fall decorating in here.  I felt like it would look way too busy if I tried anything more than this and a couple of the gold pumpkins.

I put the other two pumpkins on our entertainment stand. The one on the top is just a little decorative pumpkin I've had forever. I always put it somewhere different each year.

Close up of the painted pumpkins.  One I painted a pretty swirl pattern in brown and the other just stripes in a metallic bronze. 

Here's a better view of the swirly one. This one is my favorite :) I also went back over the brown with a gold glitter paint. And I painted the stem with the glitter too even though you can't really see it in the picture it's very pretty when the light hits it.

And just for fun, some popcorn balls! I made these for the MyChurch mommy and me play group that I hosted at our house today.  I've usually always made the kind with Jello for different colors and flavors but I don't like how hard they get. I received an email from Allrecipes.com for The Best Ever Popcorn Balls a few weeks ago and have been wanting an excuse to make them! These were sooooo yummy.  I highly recommend reading the comments people leave to recipes on Allrecipes.com.  They leave the best tips and ideas for recipes that make them even better then just following the exact recipe.  For this one I added vanilla extract and used marshmallow fluff instead of marshmallows. 

Seriously they took like 20 minutes to make. What took the longest was wrapping them each in saran wrap and tying the orange ribbon around it! But all in all under an hour. So worth it.

Happy Fall Yall!