Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte

I not the kind of girl that stops at Starbucks everyday for coffee, not only because of the price but it feels like an errand, and I hate running errands. However, I am the type of girl that likes to grind my own beans, and use a french press or an old school peculator. Today, I would like to share my new found treat, Pumpkin pie spice creamer. I highly recommend you indulge as well.

Happy Brithday to you, and you, and you!

Guess what! Today is My Mom's birthday! Isn't great to have two such special birthdays in a row! Mom, I hope you have a very special birthday! I wish I was there to celebrate and eat cake with you. We are looking forward to celebrating all of our Birthdays down in North Carolina on Turkey Day! Untill then we will be missing you from Cincinnnati.

The Birthday Fairy Visits

Today is this man's Birthday! Happy 32nd Birthday Brad! I can't believe we have celebrated five years of birthday's together. I am looking forward fifty-something more!

Presents are wrapped and ready to go, a Paula Deen dinner is in the works, dessert will be baked and decorations will go up. Normally, the Birthday fairy visits the night before and graceiously does all this prep work, but a last we were at our precious neices baptism and celebration all day so the Birthday fairy opted out. No worries she will be in full effect after work.

Stay tuned for Leah's baptism post!

I tried

So I tried to pull this look together from J Crew.

1. printed collar shirt

2. cool printed t-shirt

3. short black pants

4. white converse tennis shoes

The end result made me feel like Ellen DeGeneres, and I rectuantly changed shoes before work.

Tis the Season....

Yesterday I stopped by Kroger's to pick up a few groceries to make dinner, and couldn't help adding a bag of cinnamon scented pine cones to my cart. You could smell them through out the entire store! Then, when I got home the new Pottery Barn Holiday magazine began tempting me with all of their wonderful Holiday decorating ideas. I was so inspired I had to create a trend board. Most items are in fact from Pottery Barn and a few images are from my personal collection.

I think I can pull most of these looks together with out paying an arm and a leg to Pottery Bran except the Nativity Scene. I have been searching for a tasteful set forever! Mos in my opinion are rather heinous. This one I immediately feel in love with. So much so I may even order it soon. Do you have a Nativity scene? What does your Nativity scene look like?

My Grandma has a candle set that we always played with..... I believe my Aunt Terri found a second set on eBay, but it is super expensive.


When do you begin to decorate for Christmas? I typically start after Thanksgiving but this year I am feeling a bit anxious.

Halloween Costume Contest

Part two of our work celebration; was a costume contest. I rallied the troops and convinced two co-workers to dress up with me. We each choose a classic icon.

Mr. Peanut we missed you... maybe next year.

To make my outfit I altered an apron pattern, took inspiration from a high waisted skirt, and added a bit of lace. Mc Call's had a peasant girl pattern on sale for a buck, so I used that to make my bonnet. Finally, I had a white shirt on hand which I tacked blue rick-rack to. I am rather happy with how it turned out.

Sun-maid raisin girl (Me), Rosie the Riveter (Beth) and Morton's salt girl (Michele).

We took second place in the group category!

First place, Johnny Depp (Adam).


Posin Ivy (Robin) and the Riddler (Justin).



Sumo Wrestler (Daryl)

Rock of Love (Dan).

Clown (Terri).

Lola girl and Janet Reno (Sarah and Mark).

Our group ended up winning $50 gift cards to O' Charlies! Not too shabby.

sigh... Halloween is over, but I am really looking forward to Turkey Day. Bring on the pumpkin pie!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween night ended up being a bit chilly but we were lucky enough to stay dry. Brad built a fire and we had a few friends over to assist with all the activities. We had over 250 trick-or-treaters this year, and I still had tons of candy left over. I ended up trying to hand out handfuls at the end of the night. I saw lots of princesses, G-I-Joes and Bengals' players. What about you?

Can you guess which pumpkins are Brad's and which ones are mine?

We had tons of compliments on our pumpkins, thanks everyone! Hope everyone had a great Halloween.