Happy Fall!

I love fall. Here are my favorite things:

1) Spiced cider and mulling spices simmering on the stove

2) Cooler temperatures so that you have to wear a cozy sweater or sweatshirt

3) Crazy weather that makes you stay inside or bundling up to enjoy it outside

4) Pumpkin patches 

5) Football

Here is my recent fall project made with my best friend Sarah. I adore white pumpkins!

Hollis Loves Her Daddy

We made a quick trip to Whistler, and Hollis just loves her Dad.

Another trip to DC

Hollis gets to ride on her Grand Daddy's shoulders, and meets her Great Grandpa for the first time. Go Redskins!

Busy Day

Hollis and I had a busy day. She began crawling, held and drank from a sippy cup, and started waving 'bye-bye' today. Phew! While she was resting from all the activity, I painted our family room and kitchen. It need a face lift. There was a butter-cream yellow on the walls, and Neal and I were both sick of it. We chose two rich, warm shades of grey. I'm in love with it. It's such an improvement over the yellow. It adds so much dimension to the room. Good job mommy, good job Hollis. 

Ice Cream

I'm sure Hollis isn't supposed to have ice cream. It WAS McDonalds "non-dairy" ice cream, but honestly it's coming from McDonalds, so that's a little suspect to me. Anyways, Neal doesn't obey "baby food rules" so Hollis got her first tastes of ice cream. She love, love, loved it, and it had no adverse affect on her...other than the desire for more.

Design Fever

I have an addiction problem to my computer, design blogs, furniture websites and paint websites. I have the itch to redo our family room (whole house). Problem(s): 1) money: it'd be sweet to have $100,000 to just go out and buy everything I wanted immediately, but it's never going to happen 2) husband: Neal and I don't share the same flare for design. I want my house to look like the cover of Elle Decor or Domino, Neal wants our house to look like the cover of Hunter's World or Functional, but Not Cute (ok, lame title for a made-up magazine). 3) time: the process is FUN for me--being creative on how to have cute pieces on a dime, Neal sees any kind of process as a bother and wants the job done immediately. I take a long time, he takes 5 minutes. 

I don't know how to rectify my problems, but turning OFF the computer would be a start...

Trip to DC

Hollis and I went to DC to visit! We got to go to a training camp practice.

Here is where my dad does his press conferences each day (check out Redskins.com). The black all-purpose carpet just got replaced because my dad was frustrated at the leftover cake residue from that guy who got the cake in his face.

The four chairs are the chairs for the owners and other important people. They like to watch practice on most days. Jason Taylor is the player standing there talking to them. He was dancing for them. Oh wait, no he wasn't.

In the limo on the way to the game. 

Hollis wore such a pretty dress to the game.