Fall Porch

I love a good porch! A big porch with cozy seating and a general feel of welcoming. We don't have that :(

We have a decent sized porch but it's lacking!

I've been working on it though to make it better.

Here is what ours looked like before

Sad little chair, missing table, over ripe apples from last month, cob webs 

and a tipped over bucket. Nothing Fall like or inviting!

Taking inspiration from Pinterest

 (of course) and other blogs. 

These are some of my favorite porches, like you could sit and stay a while (with no 8 legged friends)

Love the clock!

Never thought of using rugs, other than door mats. Clever!

Love the floor, and the mismatched chairs!

I know I love Mums for fall

I like the white and the dark red ones

and pillows! We need pillows!

These are ADORABLE!

I LOVE love this sign, this style!

Ok, I have some inspiration and our porch is mostly cleaned off. Naptime tomorrow  well whenever I have a few minutes here and there I will work on it, Hoping to be done before Thursday!

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Weekly Plan

Now that our birthday weekend is over, I REALLY have to get in gear!

I usually grocery shop on Friday but we left Friday so I have to do it today, along with a bunch of other stuff.

This week needs to be the end of some projects, the start of some fall/easy cooking and the beginning stages of Christmas planning. I know, that sounds crazy, but I am just planning on making a
 plan to start homemade gifts.

Meals
So easy meals means cook once eat multiple times
Monday~Crock Pot Pork Roast
Tuesday~Pork Soft tacos (with leftovers)
Wednesday~Spaghetti
Thursday~Beef Stroganoff
Friday~Mini Pizzas


Errands
~Oil Change (least fave thing to do, but the 30 minutes of scheduling time I can use)
~Grocery Shopping
~Switching Banks.. another ewww!

Fun Stuff
~Horse Riding Lessons
~5k this weekend
~Soccer, Soccer and more Soccer!
~Playdates, lots of playdates!

Around the House
~Finish Painting Blue
~Finish Kitchen Fall Cleaning
~Finish Family Room Fall Cleaning
~Pretty up the Porch
~Prep for Halloween decorations (clean surfaces, put non seasonal stuff away)

Reading
~My stack of magazines (and pass them on)
~ A few chapters in my fun book (The Night Circus)
~Daily reads in my Devotional


I will say that making these weekly plans has really helped me feel like I get a better idea of the big picture!
And I have not been going to the gym as much lately, thinking I need to add exercise to the list of planning! Failing to plan is planning to fail right?
If this week doesn't manage to have a few good workouts in it, I will for sure be adding it to the list!

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Fall = Changes

And not just the regular leave changing, new classroom changes. 

Around here something about fall makes me like to change EVERYTHING! From hair color to bedroom furniture placement and the way I drive to and from school.

I talked about changing Finnley's room, well if you can call it changing, more like finishing.

But we also have been doing some work in Ramsey's room!

Haven't really shared much of his.

Here are a few from when Hubby built his bed, and we got his little locker desk put in.

We painted his room when we first moved in, before the dresser and bed. Obviously since they all clash!

Just finishing up painting, already put the bed back together, a few things to take care of and I will share the changes. I miss that tiny face, the picture was taken in 2010! He looks so big and grown up now, with HUGE teeth!

When we get back from our weekend adventure we should be able to finish it all up!

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Fall Cleaning.. little bedrooms

I don't know if I would really call it cleaning, but Finnley's room had a few things I have been putting off.

Filling in nail holes, touching up paint, trying to fix a bed skirt. Stuff like that!

I shared his room here, forever ago, when he was still in a crib!

This was really the only picture

It really has changed and like all our rooms here will be changing forever. I am not the type to just go buy to fill a room, I would rather wait until something is perfect!

We ended up getting him this IKEA bed

Wasn't what I want exactly, but the price is not horrible. Just waiting for the iron bed that will be perfect for his room AND our budget. Something like this

But maybe not SO rusty.

The only problem with the Ikea bed is that it makes having a bed skirt nearly impossible, there are slats underneath and the bed skirts just don't lay right, the slats move when you have kids that are for sure jumping on the bed. The bed skirts just move and bunch.

What I ended up doing was using some fabric and some sticky back Velcro to make a "skirt" really its just strips of fabric, not sewn or anything fancy. I probably could have used a bed skirt and cut the pretty part off the center but I already had the fabric.

I also moved some of the wall decorations around, felt like everything was scattered and I wasn't loving it.

I am hoping to get hubby to make a shelf like this, found on Pinterest and just LOVE it!

and I also love this, also from pinterest!

Hubby is already mid project, painting the Ramsey's room so I can't really ask for either of these right this minute, but I can do a bunch of other stuff in Finn's room. 

I will share as I finish stuff up!

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