Fall is in the air at Amy's house....

It's that time of year. Everywhere you look their is a new add for something pumpkin spiced. Their are decorations inside and out as fall gets into full swing. My niece and my daughter are decorated and their houses look awesome. My niece, Amy, is the daughter of my sister Rachel.

Check out some of her gorgeous fall items. 

I am loving this little truck with the pumpkins.

I have a table similar to this. I haven't even decorated it for fall. I need to remedy that mistake.

I am a sucker for solid white pitchers with flowers. I need to get one. Maybe I could do it on my little table for the fall.

Another cute pumpkin in a truck.

I am loving the baby blue incorporated into fall stuff this year. 

Thank you Amy for letting us visit with you today. Join me later this week when we visit my daughter and check out her decor. Then on Friday, Rachel is coming back for a guest visit with her outside fall decor. It promises to be a very good week for getting you in a fall mood.

Happy birthday, Colby

My youngest grandbaby turns 8 years old today. Colby was born with a head full of dark hair. He weighed less than 5 pounds.

This is one of my favorite pics of him and Papaw. He was so tiny.

He has always been a happy little fellow. Always smiling and laughing.

It was easy to catch great pictures of that big smile of his. 

He finds humor in everything. even climbing in my shopping bags when I try to load them in the car. You never know what he is going to do next. 

Playing miniature golf with him is a riot. He is always being funny.

He is the family sports star. He loves his baseball and will play it or practice every chance he gets. He is really good at it. He even got picked up for a travel team a couple of years ago and they have won a ton of games. For a couple of years he played on the local team as well.

This year, he is playing football in additional to travel baseball. He looks so little out on the field. He is the quarterback and can run like the wind. 

He is such a cutie pie and like I said, he is forever smiling.

Happy birthday, Colby James. We love you so much.

Just some random stuff...

Tomorrow will be Family Fall Features where I plan to showcase some more decor from my sister Rachel along with my niece Amy and my daughter Diana. I hope you will stop back by for that as I join Ms. Debbie for her Friday Foto Friends segment. As for my decor, I did do a little something to the front porch. It wasn't much, but at least it feels like fall out there now. I painted a coffee can and planted a little mum in it to see how it does. 

Tossed some fall fabric over my cheap little plastic table and put my month and some decor on the table. 

Tossed in a little pillow and a black warm throw for cold fall evenings. That was my Tuesday project.

I want to do some more out there but it has poured the rain for two straight days now and we have flash flood warnings out for the county. I'll get back to it next week on my day off.

I took myself out to Texas Roadhouse the other day and some loaded potato skins. Wish I had some more of them today. They were out of this world. 

Tuesday evening, I had a Thirty-One meeting where they introduced the new holiday gift guide. Check out the medium utility tote in snow globe pattern. That was our freebie for attending the meeting. I am loving that pattern.

We got our choice of that pattern or the gold Christmas trees. They were cute, but the snowglobe was still my favorite.

I love the new throws they are coming out with.

 

My niece, Tara, got married recently. She is so beautiful.  

And to end on a little humor. One of the funniest things I've seen recently.

Have a great day.

New hair

Yesterday was the ninth anniversary of my blog. I found it humorous that on my anniversary I forgot to blog. In my defense I had a busy day. Part of my day consisted of going to get a haircut. Here is how thick and bushy my hair has gotten.

So I went and got it cut and thinned out. Keep in mind it was getting close to time to color it again because a lot of the gray was coming through. When she cut off all the excess it took most of the color out. Look, this is the color my hair was. Look at all that gray. Ugh!

So I decided to color it a darker shade for the fall. I'm very happy with the end result. But basically I had three different types of hair in one day.

Harvest Moon

Today is Monday....AND a full moon. The September full moon is typically known as the Harvest Moon, though it also has several other names in different cultures. The moon will appear full to the casual observer the day before and after it's peak. It will reach it's peak at 10:53 p.m. tonight. 

I was fortunate to be at the beach in 2013 during the Harvest Moon. We sat on the balcony and watched the moon "come up" from the ocean. It was breathtaking to watch it rise. As we sat there we talked about it being a once in a lifetime thing for us to be at the beach during the Harvest Moon rising from the ocean.

But in 2014 when we took our annual trip, it just happened to coincide with the Harvest Moon again. Sky was cloudier and we didn't get back to the hotel to watch the whole thing, but it was still really pretty. 

It is a legend that during a full moon there are higher rates of crime, emergency room admissions and people acting irrational. Teachers say they know when it is a full moon because of the way their class behaves that day. They say there is no scientific proof that a full moon causes craziness, but I don't need scientific proof. Just watch the people around you on a full moon and you will realize it does get a little nutty. I have to work today but thankfully get off before the moon gets full and the crazy comes out. Hope you have a great Monday and are able to get a picture of a beautiful Harvest Moon.

Sunday's Songs

Prayers please...

I would like to ask my blogging friends to say a prayer for a family I have come to know very well in the last few years. The King Family lost a loved one and her memorial service is today. It has been a long week of preparation and grief. They have loved ones coming into town so it will be bittersweet to see those they haven't seen in a while but sad that it is for such an occasion. Barbara was only 57 and has been in the hospital for two months and they were never able to discover what was causing her health issues. After much pain and suffering, yet with a happy mindset as she battled everyday to beat whatever was attacking her body, Barbara passed over to be with our Lord. The family is brokenhearted and looking for answers when there are none to be found. 

She was a wonderful lady with a loving husband, three beautiful children and an adorable grandson who is in kindergarten. As they say that final goodbye today, my heart is going out to them. I have come to know the whole family in the past couple of years and have gotten very close to one of Barbara's sons. She was a very talented artist, songwriter, singer and author of poetry. There will forever be a little of her living on in her son because he has inherited her talents. 

I just pray that God will reach down and touch their hearts as they go through the closing of this chapter in their lives today. They are a good Christian family and know she is in a much better place, but that doesn't stop the grief. Please pray for comfort for them.