it's autumn time it's autumn time the leaves are falling down

it is so fun being out east during fall when all of the leaves are changing. the weather in gorgeous, and the smell is just as amazing. a couple weekends ago joe took us to a gorgeous park to take it all in.
jayden was a little sleepy so his eyes are half open in all of these pictures. thank goodness he is such a good sport and always stays happy, even when mommy and daddy drag him all over the place no matter if it's his bedtime or not.
one of jayden's many qualities is the ability to take a nap anytime and anywhere, which is perfect seeing how his mom is not a home body and is always on the go. i'm sure auntie hilary would say that he got that quality from her. thanks hil, we love you.
and we can't forget to thank uncle joe joe for taking time out of his gorgeous sunday to take our pics. we love being out here with joe. he is so much fun to be around, and quinn loves assisting him at clinic (even though freshman really aren't supposed to). that's ok, quinn will have a heads up on everyone.

great photos

Republicans enjoying themselves.

i don't like mice, actually they disgust and terrify me, but something about this insanely adorable photo makes me want to look around our garage for one and cuddle with it.

huber farm. huber fun.

huber farm: a beautiful orchard and winery filled with every type of produce you could possibly dream of...and i dream of a lot of produce.

mmmmm, kissing in a pumpkin field....nothing better.

this is j.d. he likes to play in pumpkins.
except he doesn't exactly look like he is having fun here does it. that's because we pushed him on the ground and threw pumpkins on him.

these are our crazy friends that, like jayden, enjoy riding fake farm animals. except j.d. of course... never cooperating.

i loved the smell of the gorgeous orchard, and picking as many apples as we wanted. it reminded me of the many trips that i would take with my mom to the the church orchard when i was little. those were the good ol' days. actually, these are the good ol' days. can you have more than one good ol' day? hopefully, cause i have a lot!

next project...

sand, paint, and find new vintage knobs for these tables i stole from our neighbors garbage

favorite new purchase...

beautiful thrift store find for $2. and yes, it works

funny moment...

finding jayden asleep in his bouncer, still bouncing and snoring at the same time

messy moment...

feeding jayden his first cereal

exciting moment...

quinn's flag football game where they almost beat the best team out there...almost

looking forward to...

going to huber farm orchards this afternoon with friends to go pick apples

what we just did...

played tennis. quinn and i are pretty evenly matched up, but jayden could use a little practice

wishing...

my sister lyric a good and safe labor. good luck lyr, wish i were there

i love bookstores. i love the feel of them, the smell of them, even the people in them. every time i go in one i stay for hours, just hanging out, looking at decorating magazines, reading bits and pieces of any book that has an intriguing cover. so today i took jayden into his first bookstore to see if he felt the same way, and.... well, see for yourself. i think he likes them even more than i do.

molestache

so if you haven't noticed, quinn is all about the beard lately and not shaving. well, on sunday he finally decided to shave it off, but when i came outside to check on him (yes, it was so long that he had to trim it first with hair clippers) he had nothing but a hideous molestache on his face. molestache: mustache that makes you look like a molester, in other words, all mustaches. oh, and please don't comment on my mullet. i've been cutting my own hair lately and this last time wasn't pretty. i've been wearing my hair up for about two months now....and probably should have this day also.

"nachoooooooo!"

molesters + mullets = perfect match

family portraits

i love these photos done by a few of my favorite photographers; they totally capture my eye and inspire me. they make me so excited to get our family portraits taken one day... and not just the cheesy j.c.penny ones, but by hopefully one of these photographers. most of these are taken by a new friend ashley thalman. her untraditional poses shows her insane amount of creativity. she is such an amazing photographer and i would kill to have her take our family pictures right now, but she is in salt lake and we are in louisville so we are just going to have to settle for danny our hillbilly neighbor (who happened to see us setting up our camera on the car to take our picture and kindly offered to help out). i mixed our pictures in with the others to show the stark difference between a real photographer and, well, danny. i don't know, he did pretty good. i mean can you even tell a difference between the two? jk