Fall FREE Printable

Fall is here y'all and I am super excited!!  When it comes to this time of year, I am super anxious to start pulling out the decorations.  Since only living in the house for 4 years now (wow, where did the time go), there was very few decorations and I have slowly added each year.  Mostly DIY, but I wouldn't have it any other way.  When you are on a tight budget, DIY decor is the way to go!!  Plus it's super fun!!

So of course, Pinterest is covered in all sorts of fall stuff from clothes, to decor, to food and then I came across this...

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How cute is this?  Plus it's FREE!!

You can print it out either in 8 x 10 or 10 x 13.  I will definitely be doing this tonight and putting it an 8 x 10 frame to add to my decor this year!

Over the years, I have picked up frames from thrift stores or Goodwill just to have on hand because frames can get expensive.  And we always have some spray paint lying around so this will be one inexpensive decoration I can add this year to my collection!

Just in Time

So I posted on Hope's baby shower just in time!

Baby Emmalyn Ana Epps was born on September 23, 2013, 5 lbs, 17 3/4 inches at 7:47 PM!

First ones to arrive and patiently awaiting her arrival!  Landon definitely kept us occupied! 

Showering Baby Emmalyn

On August 25th, family hosted a baby shower for Hope to prepare her for the arrival of baby Emmalyn.  Yes, Emmalyn from Army Wives for all you Army Wives fanatics!  I have been slacking on blog posts lately and thought I better get this done before the baby actually arrives.  The due date is scheduled for October 24th, but her belly is growing fast and now her ankles are slowly disappearing!  Anybody that knows Hope, knows how small she is to begin with so Wayland, her husband, is actually get a kick out this seeing her get so big.

The shower was great - lots of yummy food, family, friends and of course, lots of gifts!

I took a ton of photos, but I'll just share a few.  

Owl Diaper Cake

I Love Duck Dynasty Burp Cloth!

Nanny, Tabatha & Hope

Hope's Mom's Side of the Family

Beautiful Quilt Hand Made

We had a great time.  Now it's just waiting time!!

Stair Makeover Update

It's Friday!! Thank goodness!! So many things have been going on lately, good and not so good, but it's life and things happen for a reason so you just got to keep on going.

I have a few blog posts coming up - Hope's baby shower and a Labor Day weekend trip to Grandma and Grandpa's house in Florida, but I just have to find some time to get to it.

For now, I thought I would share that we have finally picked out a color for our stair makeover!!

I had a pine stair tread that I bought thinking we were going to stain them and then I had another vision.  I bought 2 paint samples from Home Depot and went home and painted the tread half and half.

Warning - bad iPhone photos ahead!!

After searching the blog world and Pinterest, we found a cheaper solution so dad thought it would be a good idea to paint that kind of tread to make sure the paint went on smooth and blah, blah, blah.  Of course, we took his advice.  This time when I went to Lowe's to buy the tread, I had them cut it to length so we could walk past it a few days to make sure this was the look we were going for.

We really like this look and Cody walks by everyday talking about how good it's going to look so that makes me even more excited.

Now it's time for me to order the supplies!! I swear this project will get done before this year is over!!