...with white satin ribbons......the hair bows are ribbon from my wedding bouquet as a matter of fact!
...with a nice camera, beautiful background, and my sister's energy we got some beautiful pictures!
...so I went with the dark brown...
...and I thought I would share a bit more of this seemingly eternal project...it was a foreclosure, vandalized, graffiti, broken water pipes, mold, wind, etc etc etc...and in the perfect area...so we bought it, a few hours before I went into labor. I saw little of my hubby for the next month while he (and many other wonderful people) meticulously painted and repaired, following the plans and pictures that I had put together the month before...
...and here is another of the many, many, many, many gifts he gave me in many hours of work...
...I honestly did not take many pics of this place before, and in the ones you see, they are touched up so you don't see all the mess that was left...it felt cold, yucky, and dark...now it feels warm, happy, and like home! (even though it is an ENDless project and I just can't wait for a fence and some BIG trees!!) I'll post some more before/after pics if you are interested....? ...and...what would you do with that white tile inside the fireplace...I can't really remove it...so what else??? Leave it? 

...my husband's work decided to have a pumpkin carving contest, so they gave him a pumpkin...it's the little one in the picture...what kind of a pumpkin is that! All you can carve on something like that is a pair of eyes, maybe! So we did....
...we even managed to get a mouth...the girls got bored shortly after this picture about, like 30 sec after, and left. That's when things got a little scarey. Our BIG family pumkin, well, I think the little excuse for a pumpkin insulted him...so he took matters into his own orange head...