An apple day...

Alex and I went to the apple orchard in Jordan, MN - the drive was beautiful:

We got on a tractor pulled wagon to take us out to the orchards and got to picking:

Alex love climbing in the trees to pick the best ones and always made sure there were no wormy holes before he plucked them.



It was a very fun day, especially since it was the first time either of us has been apple picking!

Now, I'm off to search the web for some delicious apple recipes - I'm thinking something with cream cheese and lots of cinnamon, yum!

Layouts of the day...

I got a couple of layouts done while Alex had a friend over to play (yay, fun for both of us!).

I used Just4Keeps monthly sketch for this one (it was also Erin's Thursday challenge):

I adore that Junkitz paper and have hoarded it long enough!

Here, I used a technique that I wanted to try for a while, I masked/painted over alpha stickers and then pulled them up (great way to use up all of those lil alphas that I had to have one of every color of back in the day!):
Also got to use my 88 cent rainbowish spool of thread that I've had forever! Love getting to use up some of my old supplies.

Thanks for taking a peak!

Makes me happy...

Fresh flowers make me happy, especially when they are as fragrant as these beauties that my parents sent me for my birthday:

And because my parents are the best MawMaw & PawPaw on the earth, they had a balloon attached to the basket, so when they were delivered Alex was overjoyed that I got flowers and he got a balloon!

At 5:30 this morning my little radiator snuck into my bed, which made me so happy to wake up at 8:30 and snuggle with him! He tends to sleep in when he is in my bed, especially after we stay up from 5:30-6:00 chatting, getting water and giving his two stuffed friends that he brought with him lots of hugs.

It also makes me happy that my hubs turned on the heat this morning, made coffee and snuck out of the house ever so quietly so Alex and I could sleep in! (Alex has fall break this week from school, so there was no reason for us to get up!!)

Yes, I said up there, he turned on the heat - isn't that insane, especially for our gas bill, but I'm just thankful that it's not snowing?!

Hope you're having a happy day!!

My "Nancy" card...

I have long admired Nancy's card creations that I've seen on Dawn's blog, but I finally decided to join in on the fun and make a Nancy card of my own:



Thanks for taking a peek!

Thank You...

to everyone for their kind words, prayers and thoughts for Logan. He is doing fine, he was home from school yesterday and other than the typical teenager sullen that he "cannot do anything fun now", he's recovering and getting around.

My little man helped me whip up a crock pot cake this morning before school:

If I get a call from school saying he's sick it's an upset tummy from sneaking lots of licks of raw cake batter!

Have a delightful day!

I love football...

I love football. I hope that one day Alex will play football because I think it teaches them good values besides the fundamentals of sacks, blocks and touchdown passes.

My sister forwarded this to me this morning after a horrible weekend for our family:

Logan is my 14 1/2 year old nephew. He broke the small bone in his right leg, he's fine now, but it was a very scary event for our family. When Logan was 12, he had a freak accident, while jumping on a trampoline, he came down wrong on his right leg, breaking it in two places so severely that it resulted in surgery, pins in his leg and days in the hospital. Luckily Vanderbilt Children's Hospital is where he has gone both times now and they are wonderful.

When my sister called me Saturday afternoon, I felt sick waiting the results of his injury. I prayed. At the same time on a football field in Franklin, TN, both teams were praying. I also prayed for the player that sacked Logan as he was quarterbacking a winning game - I hope that he doesn't feel guilty and will continue to play.

Thank you for letting me share this with you and I am just thankful this morning for being so blessed to live in a country where these boys stop the game, come together and pray - it makes my heart smile!