Fall Decorating

I love Halloween. It's my favorite holiday of all. Maybe it's because as a kid I was a candy-holic. Maybe I love dressing up. Maybe I love dressing up AND getting candy. That must be it.  Here's my Skeleton Bundt cake. He's so scary! but he tasted sooooo good! 

At Yeringtonflowers they did a cute Fall table decoration grouping.  Just simple mason jars
filled with acorns and candy corn! Easy Peasy! 

Elle Interiors  had the idea to use green apples in a glass trifle bowl to decorate.
 I love the  "green apple" colored candle too! 

Front-porch-ideas-and-more had this cute idea! 


Use gold metallic spray paint on real pumpkins for a dash of 
sparkle. I think I'll try that for my fireplace area this year. 
How cool is THAT look? it's cool alright....

It's a blog party did a simple but beautiful fall mantle that looks easy to copy...
I love the leaves, pods and
acorns strung along in an easy twine garland too.



Antsi-pants has this FREE printable Fall Subway Art project. SUPER. CUTE!
What is it about Fall colors that are just so appealing?

Pure Style Home did another fall fruits in glass idea that I loved.
I'm going to be looking for some of these glass domes.
I think they are cool and you could use them for every season.


Nest Handmade has an easy Christmas Ball Wreath tutorial on how to make this
beautiful and welcoming addition to anybody's front porch!
And Hobby Lobby has all the Christmas balls stacked in the aisles already!ve this o

Well, and who could resist just a plain old pile of pumpkins and some straw hay bales or an old cornstalk.
And if that's not enough, how about a cute grandkid in the mix? Yeah....she makes my day.
 Love her. Happy decorating. Gotta love a little
"punpkin" like this cute one.....:D

Grandkids for the Weekend

We had fun in the jacuzzi squirt gun fighting tonight. 

I got these cute squirt guns from the grocery store for
Megan and Marisa. 

They loved playing with their "dolphin and whale" guns.

And their goggles...so funny! 

Little Miss Meggie with her cute goggles...

                                    And Miss Marisa getting her share of squirtgun action....

It was fun watching them try to squirt each other and us...

You know if you go in the jacuzzi with them you are going
to come out drenched
from head to toe....

Because they splash around like they are swimming in
a little swimming pool.....

We are babysitting them and their doggie Gunner for the weekend...

We sure had fun....

And I think they had fun too....

So funny....we just crack up at this one....

We love these little cuties a lot. 

Bear Lake Quad Riding

Our family is setting the goal of individual quads so that everybody can ride together someday.

My granddaughters are a couple of tough cookies.  They are up on the back seats. When we get on the bumpy roads, they just get knocked all over but don't even complain. I can see into the future and they'll probably be BMX racers or something someday.

So we started with 2 quads that John and I rode. Then Gary and Tiff got 2 more quads. Now we just need 2 more quads so we will have 6 so when we are all together, everybody can go 4 wheeling together! Here we are.....Ohhhhh.. rockin' down the highway...

  (singing with my best Doobie Brothers lip synch)

  Devin is having a new baby. Well, Caitlin is having the baby. So probably no quads for them for awhile. Devin's gonna be buying cribs and  diapers with all his new paychecks. :D Plus he moved to Chicago. So we will miss him quad riding with us....Waaaaahhhh!

So last Saturday we were all packed up and ready to go off into the wild blue wilderness above Bear Lake. Jeff and Wendy were going up this weekend with her siblings, so they didn't meet up with us this time. And we missed them too. Whaaa. (me doing my crybaby voice)

        John's bike is more powerful than mine. It's a 300 and mine is only a 250. So I'm usually at the back (plus everybody else likes going FAST).  But I got some good camera shots in that way.  Even tho my photog skills are not great.

I got ahead of Tiff so I turned around and snapped this shot.... YEE HA! 

 Boy those clouds looked soooooo pretty! All day I was just admiring those fluffy white clouds!

    We had to stop and go find a "potty place" for Meg. :D She's such a trooper!  She's my sidekick.

               Marisa loved being on the back of her daddy's quad. She's got a cool, new helmet too!

We are really on top of the world here, me, my daughter Tiff and my granddaughters Meg and Marisa. We had a 360 view all around us of mountains, hills, water and lots of cabins down below us. It's a great place to stop and picnic.  But we didn't have any food. So we got back on and kept going. 

                 I'm at the end of the pack going up the hill....but I was keeping up pretty good.

But, alas, on the downhills, I just have to slow down and enjoy the view.Wouldn't you do that too?  Oh yeah, nature at its very best. I love a blue water lake.  And Bear Lake...... well.....it's just my favorite blue water place on earth.

Fun Fall Jars and Decorating Ideas

I love decorating for fall. It's my favorite time of the year. I love the fall colors in linens and table runners, scrapbook paper and silk flowers and leaves and amber glassware. Here are some of my favorite things this fall.

Love this Cookie Jar at Easy Peasy Chic's blog. I have done the same thing with just 
scrapbook paper and a ribbon tied on top. It's so easy! 
I save what I've designed for next year on all my holidays
 too, just in a binder with page protectors. 

We had a backyard BBQ and decorated with apples and pumpkins and fall leaves with black wrought iron and checkered tablecloths. It was so pretty! 

Some tables had pumpkins in wrought iron containers, some tables had fall leaves in a wrought iron pumpkin shape. So EASY PEASY! 

At Yeringtonflowers they did a cute Fall table decoration grouping.  Just simple mason jars
filled with pinecones, acorns and candy corn!
Easy Peasy! 

Elle Interiors  had the idea to use green apples in a glass trifle bowl to decorate.
 I love the  "green apple" colored candle too! 

Front-porch-ideas-and-more had this cute idea! 
Use gold metallic spray paint on real pumpkins for a 
dash of sparkle. I think I'll try that for my 
fireplace area this year. 
How cool is THAT look? it's cool alright....

It's a blog party did a simple but beautiful fall
mantle that looks easy to copy...
I love the leaves, pods and acorns
strung along in an easy twine garland too.  

I repainted my door from tan to red and added some Halloween decor to the bushes and a Fall Wreath to the door. It has apples, sunflowers and other dried flowers and fruits. 

Antsi-pants has this FREE printable subway art. CUTE!
What is it about Fall colors that are just so appealing? 

Pure Style Home did another fall fruits in glass idea that I loved.
I'm going to be looking for some of these glass domes.
I think they are cool and you could use them for every season.

HEREis another beautiful wreath I'd love to make .

Well, and who could resist just a plain old pile of pumpkins and some straw hay bales or an old cornstalk.
And if that's not enough, how about a cute grandkid in the mix? Yeah....she makes my day.
 Love her. Happy decorating. Gotta love a little
"punkin" like this one.....:D