October - Part Two

It is defiinitely fall here...and I love all the fun colors! We've never seen our backyard in the fall before and it is beeeeeeeeautiful. Here's one of my favorite backyard shots along with some pictures of the fun we have in the front yard.

With all of these beautiful fall leaves, we just had to do something to bring the color inside. So, we collected a bunch of leaves (sadly we had to put many of them back outside...we had tons!) and then took some tips from our long lost sixth cousin thrice removed (Martha Stewart) to make our fall leaf mobile. We collected acorns from the front yard and tied them to the ends.
Later in the month we decided to do our first painting project since we moved it. Knowing what a non-daring decorator and person I am, I decided to start with a smaller room -- the dining nook. It hardly has three sides, so I figured I couldn't go too wrong. Above is the before picture and then...

Ta-dah! And yes, I invited Ashley to do that and she painted her name all by herself. I added the others and we had a great time surprising Jared when he came home for lunch, showing him that we painted our names on the wall! Ahh!!!

We also added this wall quote that is on a unique little wall of its own.

This was Jared's favorite part.