Ethnic Festival

Lizzie came to visit today & is sleeping over, we LOVE having her visit!! 

Today, we walked downtown today to get food at the ethnic festival. There had to be 60+ different counties represented with food vendors - It was a lot of fun. The weather was absolutely perfect, a cool crisp autumn afternoon with the smell of bonfires & falling leaves. The walk was so nice it was a mile each way and so fun to look at all the house decorated for Halloween & the fall season. 

We got a little something from a few countries :: Italy, Pakistan, India, Mexico & Germany!!

Sweet Lincoln & I

Hudson's Aunt Liz got him a flute while we were there - Thanks Liz my ear drums are still ringing :) 

Sweet Lincoln had so much fun, he loves being outside, around people & really just having me in reaching distance. 

Hudson spent the morning on the trampoline sweeping off the leaves to make leaf piles! 

And of course he played monster trucks!

Hudson's first field trip :: Apple works

I should've known today was going to be a wild ride. Lincoln decided 5:30 was an acceptable time to get the day started. Which I'm always up by 5:15 but typically I go running after nursing him & he goes back to sleep, but oh not today. Next sweet Hudson decides to wake up at 6 am, so I decided to make lemonade out of lemons and make pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes!!

This picture above cracks me up! Lincoln cried the majority of our car ride to the apple orchard, poor Hudson!

Here is Hudson & his best buddy Isaac, also our across the street neighbor, playing music :)

Hudson & Issac holding hands

Crossing the bridge to the petting zoo

Hudson coming out of the slide

Hudson eating his lunch out of his bug lunch box!

Golden delicious apple picking!!

Hudson contemplating whether or not he 'should' climb the ladder

Yummy 'appies' as he calls them

Beautiful leaves on our wagon ride aka monster truck :)

And to top off our trip Hudson took a 10 minute nap in the car & refused to nap when we got home. Soooo we are watching the empires new groove & I'm not getting off the couch for the rest of the day. 

I love these sweet boys & even though today and most days are challenging I wouldn't trade this for the world. Love my three guys!!

Sign maker

I've started a new hobby ::  I've seen a lot of these cute signs and have really wanted to buy them but they're priced pretty high. So I decided to make them, I think they've turned out pretty well! Friends & family have started to ask me to make them some. 

Here's some pictures of a few I've done recently. All the lettering I do by hand!

Spooky on Washington

It's spooky over here on Washington street!! 

Gratitude

For his constant JOY!!

For football & sweet husbands!!

For saturday morning baking, listening to music, while my home is filled with laughter & the smell of coffee!! {pumpkin scones with a cinnamon, maple icing}

For Saturday morning runs!! This is on the people's trail we have and it's right in the middle of the city. Pretty neat!!

Here's to gratitude and how it turns everything into enough!!

Everyday

Oh my I'm SO BUSY, now that Lincoln is awake more, rolling over & Hudson is a VERY active toddler I am exhausted. Here's a bunch of pictures & some sweet pictures of my birthday gifts. Thanks everyone for making my birthday so special!!