girls day

a sweet friend came to visit today with her amazingly beautiful girls. all 6 of us girls had a wonderful time.

"baby it's cold out side"

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dining room redo

here is a picture of the before... this is right after we moved in the house over two years ago, so nothing is on the walls yet, but you can see the color.  i really like the color but we had been really rough on it.  holes in the walls, crayons, food.... the walls were a mess.  
after!  i decided to go with a blueish gray...  i loved how everything looked so clean and fresh but i felt like it looked so cold after having the orange for so long.  
i also felt like it looked a little to contemporary,  i was trying to think of ways to bring some more "old farm house" style.  we had these black and white pictures on the walls before but i remembered we had these old white window frames, so dave helped me hang them and then i put the black frames inside of them.  i really like how it turned out and it adds a little "old" character back in the dining room.  

the best part of all...... all i spent was $9 for a gallon of paint and $5 for a set of black sheets on clearance for the curtains.  yeah.  

apple butter

friday we made apple butter out at the camp.  they have a huge copper kettle and we all take turns stirring the butter.   it always tastes so yummy!  

grand pop taking a turn
mary jo... kay and george's neighbors always come over to make apple butter each year with us too.  they are the apple butter pros. 
time to fill the jars

fenders farm

last tuesday garret had a field trip out at a pumpkin patch.  rae was in school that day so brenna and i headed out there to meet him.  the kids had a great time and of course i snapped a few pics. garret scooped brenna right up and had her playing with him and all the "big" kids on the play ground.  he is such a good big brother and i think he was pretty proud of his little sister as well. 

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