10.31

Happy Hallowalloween 

as my favorite little 3 year old would say! 

Photo credit goes to the lovely Shayla. 

Baby Callan photo shoot might have turned into a mini Clover photo shoot thanks to this girl. 

:) 

today.

 I'm loving...

This weather. Fall! I love everything about you!
The crisp leaves, my cinnamon spice candle, pumpkin seeds, lots of family time, fireplace burning, warm comfy sweats and my fav.. pumpkin spice lattes. Oh they can be bad news.
Just look at them...

The fact that I (kind of) got to sleep in this am.

 I am so not a dog-in-the-bed kind of person. But this morning, after Drew left for work, I scooped her up and plopped her right next to me on our bed. She slept and slept and slept and then out of nowhere started grinding her teeth!?! Great, so I have a husband and a puppy who both grind their chompers.

This picture I found of my little brother. I just want to squeeeeze him.
Was he not the most absolute sweetest little boy you ever did see?

That it is Friday... and the soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. Radford are coming to visit. We are going to have such an autumn-y weekend :) Sauvie Island corn maze, yummy food, engagement pics, downtown shopping, mmm hmm, perfect!

 

Little Clover. She is so hilarious to watch. She treats every object like it is alive... hunches down, lets out a small growl, prances (yes, our puppy prances around like a cat almost 24/7) and then paws at it just to be safe. Andrew and I can watch her for hours! 

Pinterest. Me oh my who invented this crazy addicting madness? So many cute ideas. So many! I did find this lovely recipe that I am going to make for our little autumn-y weekend w/ the Rads. It looks delsih!

And this one guy. Andrew. He is amazing. Always has everything under control, taken care of and prepared. I love him oh so stinkin' much.

That's all. My nice little random post is over. Off to get some groceries to make some yummy homemade granola and have lunch with my hubby!

Yay for Friday! 

A good one for Monday morning

Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 37:4

Last night Andrew and I pulled into the garage around 1am with a little puppy full of energy. She had been in her kennel for the past 3 hours on our drive from Roseburg to Portland so we couldn't really blame her. We took her out and played with her for about a half hour trying to try and ware her out a little bit. We finally put her in her kennel for the night and, granted she wasn't whining, she was chewing on everything - all night long! We finally fell asleep only to wake up to a clock that read 7:49am. The husband starts work at 8am, so it was a bit of a hectic morning. I dropped him off at work, went grocery shopping and then returned home to Clover who had poo'ed in her kennel and had smudged it all around, EW! I bathed her, only for her to run straight back into her kennel! Yes, it has been one of those mornings! 

And then I saw this video. And it touched me. And I loved it. And it has made this Monday morning awesome. 

:) 

The new addition

Andrew and I have wanted a puppy for a very long time. Last month we had a few goals that we wanted to accomplish and we told ourselves that if we accomplished them, we would finally get a sweet little puppy! 

September came, goals were met, and the search began. 

We didn't have any clue as to what kind of puppy we wanted. 

We knew that it needed to be fairly small, not too big of a shedder and a good family dog. 

We looked around online at different sites and I found a lady who had 5 little cockapoo's.

Andrew called and the next day we went and visited the pups. 

Oh.My.Goodness. 

Sweetest things ever, if our bank account would have allowed, I think I would have picked threee! 

We decided on a little girl, she was the only one out of four crazy brothers and too cute to pass up!

We brought her home the next evening. 

Meet Clover 
our 8 week old furbaby ;)

We are kind of obsessed with her already. But in a totally good way, of course ;)

Ok, call me crazy, but I would love to be a sahm -- puppy style. 

Park, nap, snack, fetch. Repeat. 

Sounds good to muah. 

(I'm only half kidding here...) 

And him. Don't get me started, she already has him completely wrapped around her little paw ;)
... but seriously.

Heaven is for real

I bought this book for my sister's birthday.
I picked it up to read just a few pages.
I couldn't put it down.

I decided, since the house was clean and I didn't have work, that it would be just fine to keep reading.
And that is just what I did, kept reading, until a few hours later, I had finished the book.

So, yes. I read it in one day.
And then I gave it to my sister, and she finished it in a day and a half.
Now my mom is reading it. 

It.is.amazing.