Manic Monday

Another Monday has come and gone.  It was a rough morning waking up because last night I just couldn't seem to sleep when I needed to.

On Saturday, we coached our first soccer game! The girls didn't win, but I think they had a lot of fun and we found things that we can work on this week at practice! 

We spent the better part of Saturday and Sunday just being lazy and watching football.  Once the weather seemed to clear up we went out and made a few fall/house purchases that I am really happy about.  First stop was Joanne's and I was so excited to see the new country living on the shelf!

They have a lot of great fall ideas and some really neat pumpkin designs that we are looking forward to trying out next month!  One of my favorite stores is the Christmas Tree Shop and they had some great fall decorations that I simply couldn't resist.  I think fall is the only time that I enjoy the color orange.  Being an almost ginger kid orange just isn't my color, so fall is really the only excuse I have to use the color.  One of the things we have been looking for is accent tables.  For our main entry way we really needed one that wasn't too big because of its location near the main hallway.  We found one that we loved and now all we need to do is find a picture/mirror to go over the table!

I found this great wire pumpkin at the CTS and am in love with it!

We also needed another table for behind the den couch.  The pups tend to like to play right in that area and I just have this fear that one day they will put their foot through the couch.  Luckily we found a table that fit perfectly with the space and really tied the room together!

One of the things I added to the table was some of my favorite pictures, which includes this one of Jack when he was about ten weeks old.  It was his first trip to the beach and he didn't really like the water but loved the sand.  And I always get reminded of South Carolina when I look at this picture!

One of the other things I added to the table was a mason jar of leaves.  I got this idea from Country Living and I absolutely loved it.  One of my favorite aspects is that I am able to use one of the mason jars from our wedding to house the leaves!

One last 'fall' element that I added to the table was a metallic pumpkin that I got at CTS.  I decided to add a monogram to it and I think it turned out pretty cute!

Today we have just been hanging out for the afternoon gearing up to watch the season premiere of Oprah.  Rudy has never seen Oprah so he is in for a real treat with this being the last season.  I took this picture of Lola, 

about ten minutes before we got a little surprise!  We were sitting in the living room watching tv and all the sudden we heard a big "splash", Lola had fallen in the pool! I think she was a little freaked out but Rudy got her out quickly and gave her a bath and she is now resting comfortably at my feet! I think she made us more worried than she was!  I hope you are all having a great start to the week!