Objects of my obsession

1. Fall, and the holiday season in general. I use to be one of those people who went crazy when I would see the stores selling candy canes and stockings in September. I was like, you don't overlap holidays. It's barely mid October now and you can find Christmas Vacation playing in a loop all day long in our house- mostly because Rory will not watch Hocus Pocus with me and he cannot get enough of Clark Griswold's attic antics and Christmas light mishaps.

"He worked really hard Grandpa."
"So do washing machines."




2. Football. Yes football. The sport has been slowly growing on me for the past few years. I mean what else was I going to do when all that was on TV on Sundays was football. So if you can't beat them, join them, right?!? So a few years ago I decided to follow the Denver Broncos, based on my goofy perimeters- a team in a nearby state, one that wasn't too overrated or popular, and one that had a quarterback I knew (since I only knew what the quarterback did... at the time). Little did I know that the team I picked was pretty good. Haha! Sometimes it's just dumb luck!

3. Chalkboards. Ok this one shouldn't be too much of a surprise since I spent the better part of this year being photographed along side one. But I found a new way to add to my growing love for chalkboards, my little DIY project for our front porch. I painted an old outdoor side table with chalkboard paint and now I have an outdoor chalkboard!

You can get more details of my DIY table here.



4. Homemade pizza. Alright, semi-homemade pizza. My kitchen became the Harrington's Pizzeria this past Saturday when I created an assortment of pizzas to everyone's liking.

Garlic cheese "knots"


Large pepperoni for Randy



Small tomato and olive for me




Mini cheese for Rory

 (a pie tin makes the perfect mini-size pizza for the kiddos)

4. Coffee creamers. I love coffee and I'm loving the holiday flavored creamers that have recently hit the shelves at the market. Along with my usual carmel vanilla, pumpkin spice and salted carmel mocha have been added to the mix. Yum so good.




5. I've saved the best for last...MY KIDDOS!!!

(a) Rory, my little smarty pants. He's been working so hard with his school work and he is learning so much. He recently learned to write his name and his work is currently featured on the bulletin board in the hall at school. He has also discovered a puzzle game of the 50 states that I have on my iPad and is now learning the location and different shapes of the states. I'm so proud of him.

















(b) Rian. She has the best smile and the most heart-warming laugh ever. I could listen to her laugh all day long. I have the best videos of my Nana talking to her and she is cracking up. I watch them all the time and I know how priceless those moments are.







I hope everyone had a great weekend and I'll be back soon with some updates.

-xoxo
aMie

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