~Phillip is HOME, and some more Fall decor!!!~

YEA!!!!! We are SOOOO HAPPY to have Him home!  Thank you, Dear Jesus, for bringing my sweetheart/husband/best friend back home safely to me!!!  =)
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!  God really helped, and gave Phillip a wonderful trip!!!
 ~Since Elijah and Mary were still recovering from being sick, Kimberly watched them, and Sarah, Noah, and I went to the airport to pick up Phillip.
As I was heading out the door, Laura called and said that Daryl would drive us.  You see Phillip arrived just before midnight on Halloween night.
How GRATEFUL I was that Daryl drove... for it was a stormy, rainy, and windy night out there. (I was so HAPPY to see Phillip at the airport and we were so busy talking, listening to announcements about where to get his luggage, etc. that I COMPLETELY FORGOT to snap a picture of HIM that night. =( ~

~For 2 years I have sat in Colombia and Argentina and looked at Pinterest and people's blogs here in the USA and have been DYING to do some crafts.
I had no Goodwill there, couldn't find chalkboard paint, nor burlap either.  So, NOW...I'm making up for LOST TIME.  =)  I got this frame at Goodwill. ~

~Then I painted over the picture with chalkboard paint.  I left the frame gold, for we've seen LOTS of gold in Better Homes and Gardens recently, and it stands out better against my white wall.
I got the chalkboard done and wrote, "WELCOME HOME!" right before I went out the door to pick Phillip up from the airport. =)~

~Then I took a picture out of this frame, and strung binders' twine across and tied it around thumb tacs that we hammered in the back of this frame to make a "THANKFUL BOARD!!"~

~Then I placed it in my hallway on a chair, 

So that ALL my family Could reach it there!  

(Yes, I meant to write that little poem. =) ~

~I placed markers, tiny clothes pins, and little fall colored papers below in a LID of an old metal box.
Each day of the month of November our family writes what they are thankful for on a little piece of paper and attaches it with a tiny clothes pin to the strings on the frame. We let Mary and Elijah draw pictures of what they are thankful for.  ~

~It's only November 5th, but Our board is filling up fast! =) ~

~The morning after Phillip woke up, I served hash browns, eggs with cheese, donuts, and Kimberly's pumpkin Pie Latte for breakfast.~

~Recently we were driving down the road and I was seeing ALL THE BEAUTIFUL Fall Leaves/ and berries.  So I asked my sweetheart if he would PLEASE stop and get me some.  He did and I came home and found my white pitchers to put them in.~

~Fun red berries, in my white pitcher, on an old leather covered chair, with a fun slate from South Dakota on which I wrote, "AUTUMN!" ~

TOY SLINKY MAKES FALL PUMPKIN!
 ~Kimberly made a "pumpkin" using her silver slinky.  She just pulled it together, taped it in the back, and added a stick.  =)  I thought it was so cute!~

 ~And Sarah thought of adding some sticks to the orange balls sitting on Kimberly's dresser to make "pumpkins."~

~The other day when I was making my burlap ruffled table runner, I went on line to see how to ruffle burlap.
Up popped this picture of this ADORABLE burlap pillow with 2 ruffles down the front.  I knew I just HAD to make it.
Sooo...Jesus, Kimberly, and I put our heads together (OK, so JESUS DID NOT need Kimberly and I...but we SURELY NEEDED His help! =) and I now have my finished burlap pillow with 2 ruffles on my entry way bench!!!!
It was a tad complicated to figure out how much material I needed and what size ruffles, etc. but we got 'r done!
So, if anyone is interested in making a pillow like I did, leave me a comment, and I'll post the details of how I did it, so you won't have to figure out much.  =) ~

~And Here's a cup of Kimberly's Pumpkin Pie Latte that she made for us to enjoy the other day on my old bench with my new pillow.  =)  Kimberly told me that it wasn't Fall until she made and enjoyed some Pumpkin Pie Latte...a recipe that we found on line when we were in Argentina. 
Here's the Link!~

Yes!!!  I'm having SO MUCH fun playing Wife, Mommy, and decorator in our USA home.  

I'm enjoying our Fall decor...and I can't wait to decorate for Christmas too!  =)