Happy Fall!!

Hello Everyone,

 

This is my favorite time of year!! E, Holly and I are missing back home with all the fall colors, fall festivals, the smell coming off the river and how it looks in our backyard. We know that Holly is missing her backyard and laying in her grass.

This was pictures from around our home last year.

Our front porch:

 

 

Trees around our backyard:

 At the end of our driveway:

Our driveway:

Enjoy!!

Fall Decorations

Hello Everyone,

We love Fall in our home. We didn't bring our decorations over to Germany. So, I am going to go down memory lane of  some of Fall decorations from back home.

Can you tell I love owls?? Here is our china hutch in our dining room.

Fireplace mantle

This is in our entryway - more owls and a raven on our hall tree.

This was the first wreath I made in 2008. I followed directions from Michaels and just embellished it a little more to our taste.

 

This is our centerpiece that  is on our table at from the beginning of Fall to Thanksgiving. 

I put this centerpiece together for my Mom when she had come to visit us when we were down at Fort Benning, GA. She found the galvanized bucket and I added some of the sprays and different flowers. I had this beautiful ribbon that I hot glued onto the bucket.

 This beautiful centerpiece is on our coffee table.



 Have a wonderful day!!

A Thanksgiving Centerpiece for my Mom

Hello Everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. We had a wonderful day filled with cooking, eating, watching football and relaxing.

Today, I put a centerpiece together for my Mom. She found the galvanized bucket, I added some of the sprays I already had and I also picked up some new ones this year. I also hot glued this beautiful ribbon I picked up onto the bucket.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

All my best,

A Dream Comes True

Its a beautiful Autumn day in Georgia, crisp and cool. As I sit next to my husband and our Lab Holly I was thinking of how happy and content I am with our life.

I am thankful that we have achieved the American dream. We just closed on a piece (a little over 5 acres) of lakefront property in the Adirondacks in upstate NY. We can't wait to build our log home and just enjoy our lives together. This has been our dream since E came back from Iraq and we honeymooned in the Adirondacks and now it has come true.

Here is a little background about us and how we fell in love with the Adirondacks. We got married by the Justice of the Peace before E left for Iraq in 2004. He left a month after we married to train up at Fort Drum for 6 months. Then he left in October 2004 and was in Iraq until December 2005. When I drove up to Fort Drum to pick him up we stayed the weekend so he could out process. As we were sightseeing around the Adirondacks, just taking in the beauty, we looked at each other at the same time and said "we should have our honeymoon here."

We had our Military wedding because E wanted me to have the big wedding with the dress, band, and to have all of our extended family and friends there. We booked The Wawbeek (which is sadly no longer there) located on Upper Saranac Lake. We loved the history behind The Wawbeek and we stayed in the Birch Cabin (2nd cabin off the lake). There were no phones (except in the Main Lodge), cell phones didn't work up there either, no TV's...it was perfect. We brought our portable CD player and just listened to music, but mostly we just listened to the beauty of nature. We heard the magical Loons & Owls. We climbed and reached the summit of Mt. Ampersand (my first mountain). We went to Lake Placid and visited the Olympic Sports Complex, which was a dream come true for E and I. We are huge hockey fans and to stand in the same arean where the USA Hockey team won the 1980 Olympics was magical. We also went by the Bobsled Complex and Ski Jumping Complex. Of course, we couldn't resist shopping and eating lunch in that picturesque town. We drove up to the summit of Whiteface Mountain, host of the 1980 Winter Olympic Alpine Events, which is 4,867' high. I actually got vertigo as we were driving up the mountain. Venturing into Blue Mountain Lake and the Adirondack Museum was a lot of fun. It was so interesting to see the history of the Adirondacks and to what it has become now. We also went Kayaking on Saranac Lake. This is one of our favorite pastimes and we have many. It was so peaceful and everywhere we looked there was something beautiful to see. We saw a family of Foxes. It was precious, a Mama with her little babies. They were just watching us as we glided by. Then we visited High Falls Gorge, words do no justice to describe how beautiful these falls were. The falls are magnificient and I just stood there in awe. Mother Nature just fascinates me. We also would just drive around and just take in the spectacular views and peaceful life that exudes in the Adirondacks. We had so much fun exploring the towns and shops around that area of the Adirondacks. We just felt so comfortable and at peace there. Especially, since E grew up near Rochester, NY this is in his blood. Growing up in Brooklyn...you appreciate every inch of NY and the Adirondacks captured my heart.

First Autumn Wreath I Ever Made

This was the first wreath I made in 2008. I followed directions from Michaels and just embellished it a little more to our taste.