Tis the season!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We sure did! And did some Black Friday shopping and an escape room. Usual holiday weekend things. 

We also went to cut down our tree yesterday! It was cold and just the slightest bit snowy! 

 

We did eventualy get it cut down. We spent the rest of the weekend decorating for Christmas! The house is so magical all lit up.

   

I hope everyone had a great weekend and bring on December!

Papered

We had a regular week then this weekend we completed a little house project!

We had our 1 year walk through checklist items mostly completed in the last few weeks which meant we were cleared for wallpapering! Our builder *strongly* recommended we wait for a year so anything that needed to be fixed wouldn't be covered in wallpaper. 

My Mom and I took on the master bathroom this weekend. It was quite the job! We had a few challenges but mostly it was pretty smooth sailing and we LOVE the end result. It made our bathroom completely different. 

All set back up! We had initially thought we'd have more gold in the bathroom but it ended up just being on the light fixtures so the gold in the paper really brings everything together. We love it so much. 

 

It's a short week this week then Thanksgiving! Where does the time go??

Lazy fall

We're in the sweet spot of fall. Activities are winding down, there are stretches of warm days and the shit show that is the holidays hasn't started yet. Marlo is learning how to play the violin. She learned Baby Shark.

This weekend was a little busy with play practice for Marlo, play dates for both kids, sleepover for Kappy.  

I was really into the book I was reading all weekend and Marlo told me she was envious I could sit there and read for so long. She tried it a handful of times.

 

It was almost 60 degrees today so we got some good yard cleanup work done! We have way less living in the woods than we did in the city which is AWESOME. 

And that's it! Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Halloween 2023

 It was Halloween this week! The kids LOVE Halloween, but what kid doesn't. Marlo went as Hermione turned into a cat with Polyjuice Potion. 

We carved pumpkins at the 11th hour.

     

We finished the pumpkins and put them ourside about 20 minutes before it snowed for the first time this year.

   

We woke up Halloween morning to more snow than we expected!

 

Marlo had her parade at school and thankfully the sun was nice and warm. 

 

We added a nose for trick or treating.

 

The kids spent the rest of the week eating candy.

   

Yesterday was Kasper's last Ultimate frisbee game of the fall season! It was a beautiful day!

   

And finally, I drove by our old house today as I was passing by and it is looking pretty different! It's getting a new roof and it looks like maybe a new entry way or patio? I can't wait to see what they do to it!

 

Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Oops!

Guess I disappeared for a bit there. But it's only because between Rob and I, we've taken literally only these 4 pictures in the last 6 weeks. 

We've been busy with work, school, blah, blah, blah. I'm not entirely sure what happened! We vow to do better.

Our house and property were gorgeous this fall. I think we got slightly less time with the bright colors this year but they were stunning. Most of the leaves fell off the trees late last week. In other yard news, we had a fisher running up the back hill one morning! That was a highlight for sure. 

Marlo went to a birthday party at the Humane Society which is the best idea ever for a group of 9-10 year old girls.

   

 And finally, sadly, we lost Carol a few weeks ago. Her cancer returned 18 months ago and we were so lucky to have those months. We sure miss her and were able to honor her last weekend. The grandkids got along famously, of course, and I hope they can see each other soon.

 

Hope everyone had a great weekend and we'll try to get more photos this week!