FALL DECORATING-2015

I have been doing a little fall decorating.

Our front door.   We usually put the mums in the big pots but this year our sweet potato vines looks good so we just decided to leave them in the pots.

I painted an old pumpkin that I had with chalk paint and it turned out exactly like I wanted it to.

My formal dinning room.  The best part about this is I had all the things already,  didn't have to buy anything.

The lighting is not very good in this room.  I had meant to light the candles for the picture but forgot.  Probably a good thing that I didn't, I might have caught the corn shucks on fire.

KC TRIP

Tracy, hubby and I left for KC on Friday afternoon. Our main purpose in going was to attend Karlie's soccer game on Saturday morning. This is Karlie's 1st year to play. She is the only girl on the team. So, she is easy to keep up with in her pink socks. She is also one of the better ones on the team.

After the game and going to Jason's Deli for lunch, Tracy, Michelle, Carter and Karlie went to a pumpkin patch.  It was hot but they still had fun.  Hubby and I went back to the house and watched OSU football.

Sunday morning before we left to come back home, Melvin, Carter, Karlie and Tracy cruised the neighborhood in their golf cart.  Tracy and Karlie sat on the back and almost got bounced off with hubby's driving.

LABOR DAY/BIRTHDAY WEEKEND

Hubby, Tracy and I met Kim, Jamie and Abby at the Red Apple Inn Resort in Heber Springs, AR for Labor Day Weekend. We also celebrated Kim and my birthday while we  were there. Kim's was on Wed before and mine was on the Sat. Our rooms opened out onto a patio that was in the woods with rock all around. We had a waterfall close by that we could hear from our room.


The waterfall close by.

This is in front of our patio.  We could see the pool from our patio.

Kim and my birthday cake.

Abby helping Kim blow out the candles.

The pool.

Tracy and Abby.

Pap-pa and Abby.

KC CREW ARRIVE

DAY 5----------------------------Michelle and family arrived and the cousins went to swim in our neighborhood pool after eating grilled hot dogs for dinner.

DAY 6---------------------------The entire family went to Frontier City minus me.  The heat index was at least 100,  maybe more.

Cousins and best buds.  They look so hot and I know they were glad when they made it to the water park part of the amusement park.

You can just see Karlie's eyes in the log ride picture.  Karlie said she was trying to get in the picture but Abby was in her way.LOL

DAY 7----------------Kim and Abby left to go back home.  The rest of the family hung out at our pool and that night went downtown to eat at Chelino's Mexican restaurant on the canal to celebrate Michelle's birthday.

GRAND-DAUGHTER'S VISIT

DAY ONE..............................We had intended to take Abby ice skating but when we got to the ice skating place, it was closing in 20 minutes, so we had a sad little girl on our hands.

So, Tracy then decided to take her to a place called Main Event, not exactly what we thought it would be.   Not a lot for little kids.  She played games and tried to climb on a ropes course.  That didn't go over too well and had to have help getting back down.  She told Tracy she shouldn't have let her tried it. LOL

After dinner that night she rode her scooter in Momo and Pap-pas big driveway  She is pretty good at riding it.

DAY 2...............................We took her ice skating but she didn't seem to enjoy it as much as she did on her birthday.  The ice skating rink was outside on her birthday and this was inside.  That may have made a difference.  It was so cold.

 DAY 3...........................One of Tracy's friends brought over her little girl and they played and went swimming in Tracy's neighborhood pool.  Tracy was kitten sitting for this friend's little kitten so Abby had a kitten to play with for several days of her visit.

Abby and Loki

Also when Abby got bored she had Izzy, Tracy's cat, to play with.

DAY 4..............................We took her to Stillwater, about an hour away to eat at Eskimo Joe's (an Oklahoma icon) and to meet characters Joe and Buffy.  She told us before we went that she didn't think it would be that exciting.  But, when we got ready to leave she said that it was exciting.

She sure enjoyed the chocolate milkshake.  But thought the cheese fries looked a little weird.  Even though she told Tracy she liked fries and cheese.

Abby and Tracy.   She loves her Aunt Tracy.                                                                                        

Meeting the characters.

Playing friz-by with Pap-pa after getting back home.

Not sure who won.