what we've been up to lately

This post is a completely random assortment of our life this month. Odds and ends, pictures I never got a chance to update you all on and even some christmas decor we just got up.

First, where do I fit in this picture??? I keep trying to tell him that as I get bigger he's going to have to move over, at least a little ;) LOVE this puppy

Noah's seahawks hat as worn by both Dominic and Mary, from the weekend of Zach's wedding

I cannot believe that H fits in this wedding dress. We used to wear this when we were little!

Modeling some christmas attire at Target

Possible Christmas ideas, me first

And D

Dominc at Red Robin on my birthday

Another Christmas accessory at Target, I'm such a good model

The much hated ORANGE mustang that took up way too much of the garage

What a wonderful looking breakfast sandwich, Dominic

Got the Christmas lights up, and one is already out! Figures.

We won't be celebrating Thanksgiving at home so we figured we could switch out the decor early and not have to worry about it when we got back one. Turned out to be a great idea, now I know just what we have and what we need.

Our first born, she's been lounging all day and I wanted to let ya'll see just how adorable she is. Now if you could only smell her. This makes me smile.

My name is Shawna and I'm addicted

to decorating for fall!!!! I have this problem every year and it begins around halloween and doesn't end until Valentine's Day. I stocked up on a ton of decorations at Marshall's today but cannot possibly keep it all. Help me, let me know which ones are your favorites.

Tree of life

Bonus points if you know what this is

For the record my husband about had a FIT when he found out what this was.

it's my lucky day

The parfaits I made last night, we enjoyed them out on the deck after it cooled down a bit, ie it was under 100 degrees

Pup was mad that she didn't get any :(

Some of my finds today. I liked the rug and it was only $30 but it wasn't intended for outdoors. I didn't think that would matter except that it would wear faster, it matters. It was so hot I couldn't even step on it after 10 minutes outside; went right back to the store.

the indoor rug for the slider to the backyard. After Dominic mopped, don't worry I swept he didn't do the cleaning by himself, I walked inside from the back leaving footprints along the way he was upset that I was "messing up the floors". HMMM seems like he might "get it" now! I got this rug to help with the problem. $3.50

A decorative hand towel for my bathroom, love the paisley print. 2 at $5 each

Closer up

And heading outside now. This is a table cloth for the table out back. It has a slit with velcro so you can still use it and leave the umbrella in the table. $13

New nesting tables for between the chairs, LOVE THESE. $60

So I'm still on the look out for a rug. I'm contemplating spray painting a border around ours? It was part of the settlement (if you don't know what that means too bad : P ) so not much of an investment. Good idea or no?

Oh and I found $40 in an old card today, lovely day!

Hubs to the rescue

I got a flat tire on Thursday, luckily I was off work already. I had a ton of errands to run and since there was no way I was budging those nuts and bolts, Dominic came home to help. He switched it to the spare and I headed to Firestone to get it fixed. Turns out the tire was fine. Apparently the chrome rim was chipping and that was causing a leak. they sealed that rim and put the tire back on, good as new!

I also discovered some specialty features on our camera and tried them out on some subjects, both mobile and immoble.

How cute is our first born pup? Just look at those eyes and that wet little nose.

she's not too still though and the zoomed in nature of the macro feature means the slightest twitch shows.

Check out some of our garden. this pepper is long gone now.

Lettuce

A ton of tomatos. and we cut what we planted in half from last year. There are at least 50 cherry tomatos on there

and the weekly flowers from trader joes