fall pickin'

I'm pretty go with the flow when it comes to vacationing with another family, I pretty much enjoy doing everything or atleast can enjoying watching others enjoy :) I made it known before we even got there this is the one thing that I wanted to make sure we did this week. Apple pickin'!!!!!!

It's something I've never done before and would love to do again, and you know what I think everyone enjoyed it just as much as I did! I hope anyway :)

We also headed to a real pumpkin patch, I can't remember if I've ever done this either? 

That means one of three things:

1. I probably haven't been

2. I have a horrible memory (quite possible)

3. or I was too little to remember

Either way, we have a new little family member and I want him to experience everything, is that normal?

Anyway, we headed out to the patch with our little pumpkin in tow, in search of his own pumpkin

Found it!

"the farmhouse"

We are thankful, that last week we were able to go on a much needed vacation, for some quality family time and fun with our friends

We rented "the farmhouse" and enjoyed lots of scenic views, relaxing evening walks, bike rides, walking around in small towns, a little history, playing at a great park, skyline drive, and some pickin'.

I'll be back with more details soon :)

homemade wine

So.....my grandparents have a grapevine in their backyard, and have more grapes than they know what to do with. My Gammie and I decided to try our hand at some homemade wine. I found a recipe online, and we got to pickin'.

With our grapes picked and washed, I crushed them seed, hull and all in a food processor.......while Greg mixed the sugar, water and yeast

Here's the grape mash, sugar water and yeast mixture

We followed the recipe and added a small potato sliced up?  

And some steel cut oatmeal to top it off

We scooped the mixture into 2-3 gallon pickle jars, we borrowed from my Gammie

2 weeks in this is what we have, I have no idea if this is how it's supposed to look? We'll see 2 weeks left :)

Amazing note: it doesn't even smell like the tupperware that got lost in the back of the fridge that's full of who knows what from who knows when........

our new fall wreath

This is the wreath my best friend and I made several months ago. It's yarn wrapped around a straw wreath with felt flowers, hung with matching ribbon.....

well after several months and cooler weather creeping up on us :) I thought maybe we needed an update for fall! So my Mom and I headed to Michael's and decided on a color scheme, the pictures don't really show it all that well so I'll tell you what the colors are. 

It was really, really easy!!! A little time consuming but easy! 

1. I just removed our old flowers

2. Rewrapped the wreath with leftover yarn (just to freshen it up)

3. Cut out our diamonds hot glued them on

4. Then wrapped our berry yarn around in a criss-cross pattern

 and wallllahhhh! there you have it!!!!

(taupe yarn, mustard and sage felt diamonds and berry yarn on top) 

Best part about.......it was cheap!!!!! With a Michael's coupon it this was about a 4$ update. I didn't even need all of the felt I bought, so if I returned it, it would be even cheaper!!!!

To infinity and BEYOND!!!!

Emerson and I happened to stumble upon this cute little Buzz Lightyear plate at Target. We carried it around for a little while and then decided to just go for it! He enjoyed using it today and it didn't even end up on the floor like our other plastic plates do ;)

Our relaxing Tuesday in instagrams

Em's BIG 1!!!

Well my little boy is 1!!! 

Already?.....Where did the time go? 

We had a little golf themed party at the house for friends and family. Overall I think everyone had a great time,  especially Emerson!

He had no reservations about diving right into his cake :)

Everyone else had brownies decorated like golf greens, I think that's the right terminology, obviously I'm not the golfer at our house :)

Here are Em's 1 year pictures!

Happy Birthday Emerson! We love you, hope this year is even more special than the first!