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Our Thanksgiving! I Know It’s January.

- Melody 2 Comments

Okay… so Thanksgiving was more than a month ago. More like, two months ago. But hey! It’s Thanksgiving and nothing makes me feel better than looking at pictures of delicious food.

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The turkey was huge and mom basting it made her hand look like an alien. Also, turkey butt.

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Mmm… pie.

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Mom’s fall decorations on the porch. Simple and festive. Plus we really love burlap around here.

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YUM. I still crave this meal every time I look at these pictures. We stayed home and had Thanksgiving with just us. We missed our extended family but it was nice to lounge around with the windows open all day knowing we had nowhere to be. Smelling the turkey cook and watching mom bake and her pajamas… it’s the best. Also not having to put on makeup or look presentable to stuff my face was a big plus.

How was your Thanksgiving? What kind of pie did you have? I’m hungry.

 

 

xx

Updates around the house

- Melody 8 Comments

Adding pinecones to our mantel for a little fall action!
These $1 candles from Wal-Mart don’t last long but they sure smell good.
Updating the guest room with some pompom balls my sister made and empty frames fills that big white wall.
Getting festive with our dining table centerpiece.
Sleepy kitty in our $2.50 estate sale chair. 🙂
Adding tinsel to the windows above my desk for a little girlyness.
Wearing my DIY geo earrings! I LOVE them!
Little pup in her kennel. 🙂

We’ve been enjoying fall around here! The leaves are changing and the weather is starting to get permanently cooler. We picked up a lot of firewood from my dad and can’t wait for it to get frigid and burn some! Yay, smores! 🙂

How are you enjoying the fall season? Has it snowed where you live?

A family dinner

- Melody 2 Comments

Last Friday my family came over for dinner and I crossed some things off of my fall goals list. 🙂 I roasted my first chicken and was thoroughly disgusted… until I tasted it. Oh, sweet chicken how I love you. Juicy, lemony, and buttery. I used this recipe from Eat, Live, Run. (Her buttermilk fried chicken is the BOMB and I made it the last time the fam was over!) Mom brought over her famous sopapilla cheesecake and brand spankin’ new olive and sun-dried tomato bread (which I’m sure will be on her blog soon!) and we all had a grand time. 🙂 Dad, in his classic fashion, fell asleep on the couch after dinner while the gals yacked it up.

I love, love, LOVE having them here. It just feels more like home with people in the house talking, moving around, laughing, and eating. I miss living so close.

House Tour: Living and Dining Room

- Melody 4 Comments

This is pretty much the only room in our house that is actually (semi) finished! Our bedroom is missing carpet, our game room has glue all over the wood floors, and the guest room just needs work! We’re hoping to save up enough money to move in the next couple of years so we’re not putting any money into this house until then. Yay, moving!

Surprisingly, every single thing in this room is free (or cheap!) to us. It was either gifted, found, or from our wedding. The couches and dining table were given to us by our parents and all the vases, linens, and throws were gifts or thrifted. The side tables were bought at a flea market. We really needed those! We were using the floor and an old chair 🙂 Our liquor/linen cabinet is from Jason’s work. They were cleaning out the home economics room and we snatched it up! Can’t wait to refinish it and reline the back and hopefully add another shelf. There’s too much vertical space in the bottom for me! The antlers on the mantel were found in Colorado by my aunt and uncle. The baby’s breath in the vases are from our wedding table. Yes, I’ve kept them for two years. It’s probably time to throw them away? The chevron lampshade is a DIY I did last summer, one of my favorites in the room!

Still to do in here are curtains, trim around the ceiling, cushion for our bench, and recover dining chairs! Looks like a big trip to IKEA is in order… 🙂

Fall Goals

- Melody 1 Comment

I know the first week of October is over but I was inspired by one of my very favorite bloggers, Kaylah of Dainty Squid, and decided to make up a goal list for this fall! The transition between September and October always comes rather abruptly for me. My birthday is September 30 and October hits me before I’m through celebrating! Guess that means I’ll just claim both months as my birthday month 🙂

I love love love the fall! The crisp air, the apples, the colors, the trees… ahh! I hope it never ends! Of course, here in Texas, it’s almost like we have two fall seasons. Winter is just a little colder. 😉 So these are some of my goals! It’s going to be a little tricky since it’s in the middle of me getting ready for my senior recital! A whole half hour of me singing. Yikes!

So! If you can’t read them above or below, here are some of my goals!

-take lots of pictures of the leaves
-decorate with pumpkins indoors! (I’ve ALWAYS wanted to do this!)
-bake a pumpkin pie
-carve a jack-o-lantern (with Jason 🙂
-dress in purples and mustards
-practice more photography
-have fam bam over for dinner!
-roast a chicken (Jenna from Eat, Live, Run says it makes the house smell delicious!)
-successfully pull off my senior recital

I’ll surely be adding more! What are some of your goals?

A hint of summer

- Melody

Anyone else seen these feathery purple weeds on the side of the road? They cover the ground on my way to school each day. I finally decided to stop and pick some. They were nearly as tall as me and not as easy to pick as I’d initially thought. Of course three cars drove by and looked at me like I were nuts. I probably was. But they sure look great on our kitchen table. 🙂