A Couple Home Decorating Updates

Our house doesn't really have much of a hallway. But there is a decent sized wall leading into the hallway, from the dining room, that I had a couple frames with pictures from our wedding in.

This is what it looked like before.

And here it is now!

I just used the same frames, but hung them going up and down instead of side to side. I took the wedding pictures out and added pictures of Jackson. I have a ton of great pictures of Jackson and I wanted to be able to display them somehow and thought this would be a great way to do that. My Sister-in-Law had gotten me the Family Frame for my birthday, so I added pictures of our little family of 3 to it. Then the "S" I got from Hobby Lobby for 50% off (making it around $5). So this was a very inexpensive re-do on our little hallway wall.

Here's a close-up.  

Then I also bought a clock for our living room over the weekend. I had been wanting something to fill this blank space for a while. I had gone back and forth on what I wanted to hang there, but I ultimately decided on a clock because we didn't have one for our living room and with feeding and nap-time schedules for Jackson, I thought a clock would be helpful. So I found this one at Wal-Mart and really liked it. It was the size and color I was looking for and I loved that it had several words on it like, Family and Love. It goes really well with our living room decor.

A close up of the clock.

So those were a couple of things that I got done over the weekend that I had been wanting to do for a while. Have you done any fun home updates lately?

Planes, TRAINS and Automobiles! [An 11 Month Photo Shoot with Jackson]

A few weeks ago, I took some pictures for my sweet friend Holly (From Where We Can Live Like Jack and Sally) and her family. I met up with them on Main Street, in Old Town St. Charles, MO. 

On my way down there, I passed this cool old train station right along the Missouri river and thought to myself, I have to bring Jackson down here and take some fun pictures with the trains. So I had some free time yesterday evening, just as the sun was setting. 

As hard as it is to get decent pictures of a constantly moving 11 month old, I think I got some pretty cute ones. :-)

 

This picture kills me. He looks so sweet and innocent. ♥

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My Busy, Busy Boy!

One of my favorite times in the evening, is playtime with Jackson. After his dinner and bath, I'll usually let him play in his room for a little while and I'll sit there and play with him or sometimes I just sit back and watch him play and explore. Its so fascinating to watch him play and learn. He's a very busy boy these days. He's just learning and soaking it all in.

These pictures are all from one night in his room while he was just playing. 

 

One of his new favorite things is to go into his closet on one side and then come out of the other door. Too funny. He'll do this over and over and over again if we let him.

Another new thing he likes to do is empty boxes, drawers, baskets... pretty much anything that has stuff in it.

Here he is emptying one of his dresser drawers. I quickly put a stop to this after taking this picture. I know, I'm not a very fun mom. LOL.

He also emptied his basket of stuffed animals this evening.

We have so much fun in the evenings. I look forward to it all day long when I'm at work.

 

There's nothing I'd rather be doing than spending time with my sweet Jackson. ☺

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Thursday Randoms

~I'm so glad this week is almost over. Its been a busy one here at work.

~I'm also glad I have this coming Monday off. I will need it after this week and weekend. We are having a yard sale Saturday morning, starting at 7 a.m. I'm not a morning person at all. I'm actually kind of dreading this yard sale, but in an attempt to clear some junk out of my house and maybe make a little extra money, I guess I'm going to give it a try. My sister and a friend of ours are also joining me in the sale. So I guess even if we don't sell anything, I will at least have good company.

~Jackson is 11 months old today! Its starting to set in that he's almost one and its making me sad. I just want to keep him little forever. 

(Jackson drinking some juice last night at my MIL's house.) 

~For those SYTYCD fans out there, were you disappointed that Cyrus didn't win? I thought for sure he would win. I just love him! I'm sure he'll do just fine in the dance world, but I was rooting for him and really thought he would win. Here he is doing his thing and a super awesome dance routine from the season finale.

~How cute is this front porch all decorated for Halloween? I so wish I had a cute front porch like this.☺

~I saw this on Pinterest this week. Its so true. ♥


Happy Thursday Everyone!

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

♥ I'm loving this Fall like weather we're having this week here in St. Louis!

♥ I'm loving that I just ordered this super cute Halloween costume for Jackson yesterday. This will be his first real Halloween and I'm so excited! (He was only a few days old last year.) I found it online and sent a picture to Jake to see what he thought. He loved it and made me order it right away! Ha.

♥ I'm loving these super cute glass block lights that my mom is making for a fundraiser for our church. They would be so cute sitting out on Halloween night!! I especially love the Mummy light in the bottom left hand corner. Isn't he adorable?!?

♥ Pepperidge Farm Pumpkin Cheesecake cookies! These are so good.

♥ And as always, I'm loving these two guys!

Jackson's 47 Week Pictures!

I'm finally caught up on getting his weekly photo posted. I can't believe he'll already be 48 weeks/11 months old this Thursday! Only 1 more month til he's one. :-(

Jackson is getting so big. We have already had to move up the straps on his big boy car-seat and he can reach things you would never think he could reach. Its so amazing how fast he is growing.

He's wearing mostly size 18-24 month clothes and he's kind of in an in between size for shoes. He's a little too big for 4's but a little too small for most 5's still. Thankfully my mom found a pair of white Adidas tennis shoes (at a Once Upon a Child store for only $8) in a size 5 that fit him great and were in perfect condition.☺

I noticed yesterday that he's getting another tooth. I can see the white coming through already. He has all 4 bottom/middle teeth and he has 3 of the 4 top/middle teeth. The tooth that is coming through now is the 4th /top tooth (the tooth next to his left/middle top tooth).

He started (sort of) doing Patty Cake this week. We will sing the entire song and he'll just look at us and not do any of the motions, but as soon as the song is over he will clap and say yay! Ha, its pretty cute!

Fall is in the Air!

On my way to work this morning the temperature was 57 degrees. Its really starting to feel like Fall here in the STL. I really love Summer. Its probably my favorite season and I'm always sad to see it go, but I'm looking forward to Fall this year with Jackson. 

I'm looking forward to taking him to the Pumpkin Farm,

and to Eckerts for Apple Picking.

I can't wait for Trick or Treating,

Carving Pumpkins,

 and My Mother-in-Law's Halloween Party. (Which she didn't have last year because we had Jackson so close to Halloween.)

Our Church Bonfire,

and one of my very favorite things about Fall is Pumpkin Pie Concretes from Doozles!

I'm also looking forward to Thanksgiving with family.

And yummy pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks!

What are you looking forward to this Fall??