Fall events

October is such a busy month for our family but we love it because most of it involves family time. Jenny and Lana had a booth at War Eagle this year and did great. It was so much fun to go up there and see them doing so well plus I love going to fairs like this in the fall. My daughter and daughter-in-law went up there with me on two separate days. We love it. And Kacee really loves the turkey legs.

Then we have Noah's birthday and so far we have gone to Chucky Cheese. The boys love going there as I'm sure most kids do.

Next weekend is Noah's birthday party. Superheros!!.Going to be fun. Then just before Halloween, we have Hee Haw at the church. Such a fun time for everyone with food, music and trick or treating for the little kids. October is a good time to kick off the holiday season.

OMGosh!!!

Where has the time gone??? Can you believe it????? Noah is 3 today.

Traveling Tuesdays

I haven't participated in Traveling Tuesdays with whistlestop cooking in a long time but I am going to today. For the last two years we have "traveled" to my daughter's over in Oklahoma for Disney on Ice. The boys really enjoy seeing "Hot Dog" which is Mickey Mouse, the other Disney characters and of course the Toy Story characters. Noah especially gets excited to see "Hot Dog". He calls Mickey Mouse that because of the song on the new Mickey Mouse Clubhous cartoons. Noah and Jonah's expressions are priceless. Can't wait to take them to Disney World at Christmas this year.

Pumpkin Patch

I love the fall and all the activities we usually have going on this time of year. We went to a great pumpkin patch today with our grandsons. They have so much fun, getting to pet pigs and goats, go on a hayride and pet horses, then getting to pick out their own pumpkins. And this year is especially good because Gary was able to walk around the farm and even carry Noah on his shoulders which he couldn't do before he had his heart procedure just a few short weeks ago. God is so good to us and has blessed us again with good health. We are a very blessed family.

Together at last!

A while back I posted a picture of a desk I had repainted. Now I want to show you the chair my sister recovered and repainted to go with this desk. It turned out wonderfully. We repainted and recovered chair and desk all for under $100. It is now sitting in our booth at the antique mall waiting for me to bring it back home since my daughter has decided she wants to buy it.

What a week!!!

No pictures this time but WOW what a week! I took a week off from work to "de-clutter" my house. But my first project was going to be painting a built-in desk in our middle bedroom. The book shelves are wood but the desk top is formica. OMGosh what a job this turned out to be. I first painted it white as a base and was going to leave it white but I love color so I decided to paint it red. SO......after purchasing a gallon of red paint, painting on two coats and it not covering, my daughter suggested I paint it with a gray primer. I did that and then Gary discovered the red paint was defective and that was why it wasn't covering (and probably didn't need the gray primer). Took the red paint back, got a different brand of the same color red, painted two coats of this paint and was finished. Let's see now, that is 6 coats of paint on this desk over four days!!!!!! And I thought this was going to be finished in one day and I could move on to other places to clean. NOT. Finally this morning I applied a black stain that I wiped off leaving a black glaze and now we wait until next week to put everything back in the shelves and desk that has been sitting in this bedroom and down the hall ALL WEEK!!!! WOW!!!!
I did get a couple of closets, bathroom drawers, back porch clean out and straightened, pictures hung and other minor projects waiting for attention but Really????  A Whole Week to paint one desk?? I'm exhausted.
Now on to Jenny's tomorrow for Disney on Ice Toy Story 3. Yeah!!!!!!
(I know...lot's of puncuation and caps. What can I say, I'm dramatic!!!!!!!)

Repainted Desk

I am so terrible at getting before pictures of furniture I have redone so this should be no surprise that AGAIN I didn't think to get any pictures but this cute little desk was not bad when I bought it. It was a cream color with light green trim, cute little flowers on the front and top but the top also had two of the corners painted the light green which looked totally out of place. When looking the the desk over it was kind of a "oh how cute" until you looked at the top and then it was "what is up with the corners?" kind of thing. Anyway, I decided it would really look great painted a dark red with a black glaze. It really turned out great, just not my pictures. The pictures make it look kind of orange and it's not at all. Oh well, hopefully I will get better at this picture taking thing.