Monday Musings

What a busy, but fun weekend! We got a lot of family Halloween festivities done.

On Friday, Tanner had no school, so we went out to the Mt. Pleasant Waterfront Park and Pier to meet my friend Suz and her kids to play. After the play park there, we all took a stroll down the pier. Suz was able to get my new favorite photo of the boys and me {thank you ,Suz!}

This of course is my fabulous friend, Suz...

On Friday night, Suz and I went out with a couple of other girlfriends to The Granary here in Mt. Pleasant. It was my first time and oh. my. God. it was sooooo good. We all split the charcuterie and cheese plates and my entree was grilled swordfish over some yummy veggies. I am definitely taking my husband there for date night; he'd definitely enjoy it. We then went to an English pub called My Father's Moustache and basically closed down the place just chatting away. It was nice to get out, but I was feeling it the next day - more so for lack of sleep, not the alcohol.

On Saturday, I took Tanner and Breckin to the Towne Centre for their Trick-or-Treat...most of the stores hand out candy to the kids and there was a jump castle. It was really nice weather for it, maybe even a little on the hot side! Is it really the end of October? 80s seems high!

I was able to take a run that evening and got to catch this beautiful sunset...

So serene...glad it is right near my house.

On Sunday, we went to church, out to lunch and even made a family trip to Walmart for some essentials. I went to the grocery store that afternoon {starting up the meal prepping again} and we had our little family pumpkin carving party that evening...the boys really enjoyed it.

And of course Farrah was hanging out with us the whole time...

She has even recently begun working on sitting up on her own!

I hope y'all had a great weekend...oh, and that thing I kept saying I was going to find the time to do? I finally did it...

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Monday Musings

If you stopped by my blog late last week, you may have noticed some changes were made. Yep, that's right..even though I love a good sunset/sunrise, I took it down and turned it into this:

But I'm just realizing that if you're reading my blog right now, I didn't really need to post that picture because you're obviously already seeing it... #blondemoment

Speaking of blonde moments...I did ask y'all last week whether I should stay blonde or go brunette...and well, the verdict is: Go Brunette.

{Sort of fuzzy, but this pic is from when I went really brunette two years ago...and my Tundra is in this picture!}

I am currently still blonde...but pretty sure I'm going to make the big change this week when I find a good free moment. I think brunette is just best for fall/winter...and plus, brunette is more my hubby's taste.

Anywho...on to this past weekend's events! We actually had a pretty darn good weekend. Friday night was my neighborhood wine club's wine night of the month and oh man, it got a little craaaaaazzy up in there. {This tends to happen when a bunch of moms get relieved of kid duty for the evening.} We had us a little dance part-ay pretty much and I may or may not have done the choreography from Britney Spears' Baby One More Time video {oh yes, I know it} when that song came on...I'm a still a little fuzzy...but I'm sure this picture is proof.

Yep, that'd be me, in all my Rainbow Brite glory. Oh yes, I forgot to mention we decided to make it a costume party in spirit of Halloween...I don't typically dress as a rainbow-legged and -armed streetwalker and party with nurses. {Hope y'all checked out my DIY Mother/Daughter Rainbow Brite costumes post on Friday...}

Jake had to work USCG all weekend, but when he got home on Saturday, we all went out to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Breckin is such a salt-lover...always mooching off our margaritas.

And he actually got off USCG early on Sunday, so he, Farrah and I went to a bar called The Rusty Rudder and watched the Packers/Panthers game. {Tanner and Breckin were with Nana & Papa at the pumpkin patch, so it was a nice little break.}

After we picked up the boys, we spent some time playing in the backyard...

And then it was time to get ready for the Monday ahead.

Hope y'all have a great week!

 

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Five Things

Yesterday's mail officially made this one of the best weeks in history. I'll tell you why.

{one}

These babies finally arrived:

Like I told my friend, I now have 5 babies...Tanner, Breckin, Farrah and these shoes.

I'm super-stoked. Ok, so now onto:

{two}

At my baby shower last March, my guests and I painted onesies for Farrah. She's now grown out of most of them, but I remembered I still had the fabric paint stashed away somewhere, so I pulled it out and made a few more! I think I'll be doing this on a regular basis as she grows out of them! It's actually pretty fun. The boys saw them and wanted to make one for her too, so I'll have to go buy some more onesies to paint.

{three}

Farrah turned 5 months old yesterday and earlier this week she rolled over for the first time!

{four}

On Tuesday, while Tanner was at school, I took advantage of Boone Hall Farms' Twofer Tuesday and took Breckin and Farrah to the pumpkin patch. It was lovely fall weather for it. {Don't worry, I of course plan to take Tanner when we all go as a family, it was just a fun thing to take Breckin to do during the day.}
 

That's B on some spiderweb thing...my camera ran out of room while we were there, so I didn't get many pictures! But we went on the hayride, he played on all the things they had there - jump houses, big jump pillows, slides, swings, etc. and we fed the goats.

{five}

It's fall again and it's time for me to decide what to do about my hair...go brunette, or continue with the blonde? Just before I had Farrah, I had a couple of salon sessions to get full highlights in and I haven't {nor have I really had the time to have} done anything since. So now I've got like 4-inch long roots and I'm in desperate need of at least a trim. {I'm trying to grow it really long again.} So what do you think?

Blonde....

or Brunette?

Sorry, it's a pretty old pic because I haven't been super-dark brunette in a while, which is what I would want to do if I went brunette again.

Help me decide! Let me know your vote in the comments!

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