Fall is coming soon!

Fall is just around the corner and my sister has worked hard to get her outside ready for everyone to enjoy. Last week, we toured her inside fall decor. Today we will take a look at the outside. Thanks for the pics, Rachel.

This is another one from the inside of her house. Check out the big mug and plates. I love it. I need to ask her where she found that. 

Thanks Rachel for letting us tour your beautiful fall decor. 

What a great weekend...

Had a great weekend. Started out Friday night with dinner to celebrate my granddaughter, Alexis, birthday.

My oldest grandson, Garret, was off work and able to go with us. You can tell he's preparing for deer hunting season. Although this does appear to be his year round look. He's handsome no matter what. 

This is my granddaughter and grandson, Shelby & Caleb. He's at that "I don't smile for pics" age. But Shelby smiles enough for both of them. 

My grandson Colby with Alexis helping her open her cards and gifts. 

My daughter Diana.

The one on the right in the lighter blue is my son, Chris. He had jumped over to help his sister eat her appetizer. 

We stood in the parking lot afterwards for over an hour visiting. We had a great time. Caleb is leaning on his mom. Thought I would show you how tall he is compared to Diana. Good thing he is a good kid. No way can I see her having to reprimand him with him look down to get a "talkin' to." That's my son-in-law Michael to the right of the picture. Colby photo bombed them.

I was watching the girls in the family and realized they have a lot of hair. The one 2nd from the right is my daughter-in-law Jamie. You can tell her and Alexis are mother daughter with that dark hair and Shelby belongs to Diana. She definitely got Di's hair...curls and all.

But my favorite picture of all was the one of me an my five beautiful grandchildren. The two older ones even managed a semi upward tilt of the lips. I'm taking that for a smile and considering myself lucky. 

Saturday I worked so nothing spectacular happened to blog about. Sunday was homecoming at church and afterwards I just laid around the house and relaxed, read, and watched TV all day. That is so NOT me, but it sure felt good. I'm off again today so I'm catching up a little laundry and working on storage boxes. I still haven't gotten rid of everything I want to get rid of. But I'm taking care of that soon.  Hope you have a great Monday. 

It's a special day today....

Today my first granddaughter turns 14. Where have the years gone. She was born two months early and weighed less than two pounds. 

In two months, she came home close to her due date. Such a tiny little thing. We were mesmerized by her.

She has always been a happy child. Always smiling and laughing. I'm not even sure if she has a temper because I've never seen it.

How could you not love a sweet face like this. Those pretty eyes of hers just sparkle.

This one is one of my favorite ones because you can just tell how happy she was to be at Mamaw's house. She has always made me feel so blessed.

She has the the prettiest, thickest hair for such a little girl.

Full of life and happiness. And always ready to pose for my pictures.

She loves to read. And I love how much she loves to read and how much joy her books bring her. She can get stuck in a story and read to the point where she doesn't have a clue what is going on around her. My Mamaw Eden was a huge reader, my mom was a huge reader. I love books and you know by all my McKay trips that I'm a big reader. So it melts my heart that she has inherited that love of books. 

She loves everything we do. She had a great time the first time I took her to the Stampede. We hung out so she could meet the riders and horses.

I can't believe she graduated 8th grade in June and started high school for 9th grade this year. Where oh where have the years gone. I do miss the sweet little girl, but am so proud of the beautiful young lady she is growing into.

I love you Alexis Caroline. I hope you have a very happy birthday.

A Family Fall visit from my sister

Last year, I showcased fall items from members of my family who live about five hours away. I don't get to visit like I would like. So it is always fun for me to see their decor for the holidays. Today, we are visiting my sister Rachel. Check out some of her beautiful fall decor.

The past 5 days....

Part of this post was going to be my Saturday post. Then I decided to just hold off and do my weekend wrap up on Monday. But I had a four day Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I thought it would be good just do do the wrap-up post on Tuesday. But going back to work yesterday messed up my plans so I am finally doing a weekend wrap up on a Wednesday. Almost time for another weekend now, but here it goes. It started out Friday with a trip to get my phone fixed. It had quit charging. Turns out the port went bad. I am loving my phone. It's an LG K8+ 2018. 

I ordered a new case from Amazon that night and got it on Monday. 

I stopped by McKay's and found some neat Christmas coffee table books for .75 cents each.  

I went to Dollar General to get some garland for my fireplace top.

While I was there I found this cute fall milk can.

I love the way it turned out. 

Saturday we went to Colby's football game. He looks so cute out there playing. 

He's the quarterback and we got to see him score a touchdown which broke the tie. Neither team scored after that so they won the game. I had a blast. 

As I was out shopping this weekend, I saw the most unique scarecrows at AC Moore.

I am loving the pilgrim ones, but not loving $19.99. I'll watch for a huge markdown or I'll just pass on them no matter how cute they are. 

Sunday morning they were celebrating Grandparent's day in Sunday School Pre-K class. Some of the grandparents couldn't make it so I got recruited to be an honorary one. They served us refreshments then we got little painted boxes and a cross to make out of Lego's that they helped us with. It was fun to be back in a class I helped out in for about 6 or 7 years.

We had children's church and I got a picture of some of the kids because we will be having a few graduate to big church the first Sunday in October. But I still get a few of them for another year. Alexis and Shelby spent the night with me on Saturday so they were at church with me. Shelby was out helping a little friend get her blood sugar down when I took the pic. Alexis is the second row on the left (dark hair, glasses). She was my helper for the day. She has a birthday this Friday so I have some more fun plans coming up.

I went back to work yesterday and had a hard time getting in the groove. But I managed. When I came home, my two favorite deer were back. It's almost an every day thing. I come home. They are there. I try to get a good picture. They just look at me and we manage a stair down. I take some pics. They go back to eating and I go in the house. They never run away from me.

Well, that's my wrap up. Hope you are having a good week. 

Prayer watch

Please pray for those in the path of Florence. My niece Emili and her best friend Brittany are in Wilmington, NC. Who knows where this thing will end up hitting and how much it will bounce around going up the coast. Let's remember everyone in it's path and pray for safety.

Birthday time

Happy birthday to my son-in-law, Michael. I hope you have a wonderful day and a very Happy Birthday.