A little Fall decorating....

Hello my friends, may this find all of you happy and enjoy all the moments that God has given us! The weather here has been just beautiful. Tomorrow it is suppose to be a bit chilly and rainy but we need the rain and then Sunday through next week in the low 70's again. Love it!

I have done some fall decorating so I thought I would take some pictures and show you what I have done.

That is about all I have done right now but I am planning to do the rest this weekend. My sister and I are also going to hit the Seasonal Boutiques that are open here for SeptOberfest. They usually have some cute prim things.

Have a great weekend everyone! Be blessed!

First Day of Fall!!

Hope you all have a wonderful fall! Enjoy! Love you all! 

Fall Celebration...

Hello everyone. Well fall is in the air and my town is all decked out for our fall celebration SeptOberfest. It is celebrating fall and our German heritage. There is a group of people that work really hard to get the town all decorated and each weekend from now until Oct.27.. There are horse and carriage rides, German meals, music, pumpkin carving, pumpkin topiary contests, and all kinds of different events going on.   I have to say that it really brings people into town and they really have everything decorated really nice. Here are some of the displays I took a picture of..

The businesses even put up displays...

Also all along main street every other light post is decorated like this...

 There are also neat boutiques open during this time...The Attic. The Woodshed and Grandpa's Barn

It is a lot of fun and a great way to celebrate my favorite time of the year! I am almost done with my decorating so I will be back soon with photos of that. Have a great week! Be blessed!

Almost Over....

Hello friends! Almost over...the heat wave we have been having that is. It has been 3 and a half weeks since we have had any rain and it has been roasting! The temps have been in the upper 90's and with the humidity it has felt like between 100 and 107. It is our state fair and I was going to go but not in this heat! My poor flowers have died from the heat but that is ok because I am almost ready for mums. By Sunday we are suppose to be back into the high 70's to low 80's so yes it is almost over and I am so glad!

Tomorrow is going to be the first Friday in 6 weeks that I haven't gone and babysat Isaiah, I am going to miss him but I will get to go next Friday. I feel so blessed that I am able to do that. Since I am not babysitting I am going to go to Red Wing and try and find the Prim store that Francine was at. I will also go to the Goodwill store and maybe get lucky. It is pretty funny to me that I live 45 minutes from Red Wing and didn't know there was a prim shop there but Francine comes from Canada and finds it! LOL I am excited to see what I find.

I have also started to get out some of my fall decorations It is so fun seeing things that I had forgotten I had. There are so many neat things from you my friends that I have received in swaps (thanks Amy) or have bought from you. This is my second "prim" fall. I don't have a lot but what I have is very special. I have been moving things around so when I get things in place I will share some pictures.

Well that is about it but I do want to share with you some pictures I took on a little road trip on some backroads. This pretty doe was drinking at a pond, until I scared her away...

 A farm had this old pick-up filled with flowers and the American flag, I thought it looked so cool

An old stone barn I thought was neat

An Amish buggy up ahead...taken through my dirty windshield lol.

This is kinda hard to see but this was an Amish man plowing his garden or something.

And of course one of Isaiah...he is growing so fast!

Have a great long weekend everyone! Bring on fall!
Thanks you for visiting, you all mean so much to me!

Another Catch-Up

Hello friends~ I finally decided to write a blog post, it sure has been awhile. My life is pretty boring so I never have much to say...you all should probably thank me! LOL

The weather here in Minnesota has been just beautiful! The daytime temps have been between 75 and 80 and God has been providing the air conditioning for the nights. It has been great sleeping weather. On some days there has been a little hint of fall in the air and that makes me so happy! Fall is the start of my favorite part of the year. I love the crisp sweatshirt weather, the colorful leaves and the shorter daylight. When I say that people think I am crazy but I just love coming home from work, putting on my primitive lights and candles and snuggle in to do some crafting, stitching or reading. Oh yes I am looking forward to fall...but not so fast....On the news it said that the heat and humidity are coming from Idaho...thanks Steph! LOL Temps in the 90's and high humidity...Booo!

Two weeks ago we had a very special weekend. The whole family got together to celebrate my mom and dad's 55th anniversary. We got a new family picture taken because the one we took 5 years ago on their 50th is short 4 people. It is kinda funny...we were talking that Jon hadn't even met Judy when we celebrated mom and dad's 50th and in that time he met her and Ian and Ivan, dated, fell in love, married and now they have Isaiah. You just never know God's plan for you! Here is the family picture...

This is my mom and dad and the four kids... I am the oldest and shortest, my sister is next and then we adopted my brother Mike and then adopted my brother Jon. I was a twin and my twin brother died when we were 5 and a half so that is why mom and dad decided to adopt.

This is  Mike and Jane and their family...Matthew, Michelle and Logan..

This is Jon, Judy and their boys  Ian, Ivan and Isaiah...

This is mom and dad and the grandkids...

And here is my buddy Isaiah. He was being very spoiled...everyone wanted to hold him and love on him, he was quite happy with all of the attention.

We all went out to eat and just enjoyed all of out time together laughing, talking and catching up. It was a great memory making time!

Well that is about all of the catching up I have for now. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Summer Nephew Time

Hello everyone. It is hard to believe that it is the middle of July already. It took so long for summer to get here that now it seems like it is just flying by. During the last couple of weeks I have been spending a lot of time with all four of my nephews. Each year my sister and I usually take a baseball trip with my nephews to Kansas City. We go to a couple of games and do other fun things. Well this year my nephew Logan had driver's Ed classes so we weren't able to go. We went to the Twin Cities instead. We stayed at the Mall of America Water Park Raddison and also went to a couple of Twins games at Target Field. All four of the older nephews went, Matthew (22) Logan (15) Ian (14) and Ivan (10). It was a lot of fun. The first day we had lunch at a place called The Nook in St. Paul. It was on the TV show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. It was a dive but the food was great. We all had a Juicy Nookie which is a burger with the cheese inside...or a heart attack on a bun! LOL

The waterpark had tons of things to do...there was a wave pool, a lazy river, a place where you could body surf, three different slides at different heights and a shallow pool to play basketball and stuff. They all took advantage of all of the things a number of times.

And here are a couple of pictures at Target Field and the Twins game.

All in all it was a great couple of days spent with my sister and nephews. 

Last Friday I got to babysit Isaiah the first time alone. His mom has gone back to work and it is pretty hard on the little guy. He still refuses to take a bottle so we have to put the milk in a cup and put it in his mouth so he swallows it. He really misses nursing when he is trying to go to sleep...he cries a lot and sucks on my shirt on my shoulder but if you put a pacifier or bottle nipple in his mouth he screams, it is hard for this Auntie to hear him crying. The thing is that when mom is home she just nurses him so I doubt that the bottle will ever work. Although it is tough the good times greatly outweigh the hard times. I really love my little guy!

Well that is all I have for now! Have a great week everyone!