Joyfully Weary

We've finished our farm unit and are moving on to a new theme tomorrow - but before we do I wanted share the barn we made. The wooden farm animals came with a beautiful handmade ark that we gave Big Buddy for Christmas a couple years ago.  I would someday love to have a wood barn but it's currently not in the budget. So in the mean time we decided to improvise and make our own.  I stumbled upon this perfectly sized milk box (4 gallons per box) while subbing and thought it would be sturdy enough to handle play. Hubandie and the boys used an x-acto knife and wood glue to build a barn shape. to get the doors to fold out hubandie used an x-acto knife and scored the inside of the cardboard We then painted with a basic primer and outlined a window and a door with painters tape. cardboard is very porous so priming is a must if you want decent coverage Big Buddy however insisted that we add more windows so it...

SUNDAY earrings: target, shirt: thrift, skirt: gap, tights: target, shoes: dsw MONDAY  earrings: target, necklace: gift, shirt: ae, sweater: gap, shorts: f21, tights: gap, shoes: florence WEDNESDAY earrings: florence, scarf: florence, sweater: thrift, shirt: target, jeans: gap, boots: piperlime SATURDAY earrings: ?, scarf: target, sweater: thrift, belt: thrift, pants: germany, shoes: frock swap Today was a fun day. In the morning one of our neighborhood friends hosted a children's halloween party. It was a trip seeing all the kids in their costumes and the food & conversation was excellent. In the afternoon husbandie let me go thrifting - ALONE. A local store was having a 50% off sale and I came home with seven new-to-us items, for only $12! Which included a grass green wool pencil skirt & fitted turquoise velvet blazer...super excited to plan outfits around these pieces!

superman, a monkey, & a puppy costumes all for less then $9 crackers that magically keep a nap deprived monkey happy an unopened pack of oreos and cold milk   good books and cuddles   a new table for the porch (thanks maca!)  little lady's truck sounds silly games... and good friends who make them fun

The boys and I skipped nap time today in favor of a trip to a local pumpkin farm . Here's some pictures of our day. big buddy's favorite animal: chickens mini man loved all the animals but this goat was his favorite they bonded  there was also lots of non-animal fun the corn pits is where we spent most of our time charlotte's web big buddy loved the giant orange, jumping pillow - mini man and I jumped too but he started to get cold and tired... so we took a little cuddle and kisses break which quickly ended when he saw big buddy conquering this mountain of tractor tires he's not one to be left behind :) there were lots of tractors p;kl; of all shapes and sizes i had to take the obligatory height picture before we  left which they actually posed for - big buddy is currently obsessed with rulers and mini man is currently obsessed with copying big buddy It was ...

It doesn't look like we are going to carve a Jack-O-Lantern this year. Neither Husbandie or I particularly enjoy carving and while the boys would love it (hello, sharp things) they are still a little bit too young. This however hasn't stopped us from having lots of fun with our pumpkins. We've washed them... this photo made me chuckle...my poor skinny boys   We tried our hand at painting negative-space letters... we used washable water based paint so once dried, it flaked pretty bad but we'll still be sticking with washable for awhile And lastly we made Mr. Pumpkin heads... Would love to hear if you have any non-carving ways of enjoying pumpkins.