Sweet Little Faces

Thanksgiving

I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving day! We sure did. We started the day by watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, something I have done every single year since I can remember. LOVE IT! Then, since both of our families live here, we got to spend some time with each. We began our feasting by meeting Adam's family at SAC for a yummy traditional Thanksgiving meal. Adam's grandparents were able to come down and it was so good to see them. He has such a sweet family- I am very blessed to have married into such great bunch of people! Then we headed over to my parents to have another traditional meal. Bring on the turkey! It never gets old. It was so nice to be surrounded by friends and family all day! I think there were 26 people at mom and dad's this year-pretty normal for us. The more the merrier!

Oh hey- guess what? I made my very first pie completely from scratch, even the crust (with the help of my friend Meagan)! It actually turned out pretty good

Mmmm... It had a cream cheese layer, a pumpkin layer, and the top was sprinkled with a mixture of pecans, brown sugar, chocolate chips, and maple syrup! Yum! Thanks Bakerella!

What a great day! Hey, can you believe there's only a few more weeks till Christmas? Yikes, better start my shopping...

Pictures as Promised

I promised I would post pictures after we decorated last Saturday and here they are...

Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes

Yummo!

Hard at work...

The Finished Product(s):

Finally found a wreath for my front door!

I got this picture last year as a Christmas gift- I love it!

Adam and I kept Kennedy, our niece, that night after we finished decorating and we had so much fun!

Look at that sweet little face

We watched the original television Christmas Classics and she loved them! (My favorite one is Santa Claus is Coming To Town) She's so sweet-she watched all of them and wanted more so we started the DVD over. I had to run to Hobby Lobby really fast to pick up something and when I came home this is what I saw

How precious is that?

All in all it was a really fun day! I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and family who love Christmas as much as me!

Blogging Take 2 (maybe 3 or 4)

Ahh! I'm really horrible at this! Oh well, I will chalk it up to my personality type and move on. I can't believe that its almost Thanksgiving! This year has flown by. I absolutely love this time of year. We are putting up our Christmas decorations this weekend and I cannot wait! I am going to make it a Christmas day starting off with some blueberry cornmeal pancakes with orange maple butter ( thank you bakerella), followed by an afternoon of Christmas decorating, Christmas music, and Christmas movies! My sister thinks its crazy to decorate before Thanksgiving and some of you probably do too, but here's the deal: we always help my parents decorate their house on the day after Thanksgiving - we wouldn't be able to put our stuff out until the weekend after the weekend after Thanksgiving and that just doesn't give me enough time to enjoy it- so we decorate before! I get to soak up my Christmas tree for a whole extra week than most people!

In other news, Adam and I recently painted our bedroom and got new carpet and we are loving it! We also got a new bedspread to top off our little makeover, whatcha think?

It has these cute little birds on it, and if you know me-I'm a sucker for cute birds!

We love it!

Also, I ordered some scentsy stuff and it just came in and I am so excited to use it! This is the warmer. Its pretty much a wickless candle- they are awesome, I have decided.

So, I always tell myself that I am going to keep up with this and post often but I obviously have not, and it probably holds little value when I say that this time I really am going to try, but really....I am!!!!! Not because I think that you are just dying to know what's going on in our lives but because it helps me remember things, ha. I can organize my thoughts and pictures and use this as sort of a visual timeline.

Anyway, I hope that those of you who do read this are doing well and enjoying this wonderful fall (almost winter) weather! I promise I will write again soon!

Wall O' Plates

I have been debating on what to do with this one particular wall in my dining room for some time. I had lots of ideas but none that I was all that excited about. With that said, my Mom was going through some old stuff the other day and stumbled across these really neat antique plates that were my grandmother's -I bet some of them were even passed down to her from my great grandmother. She asked me if I wanted them and of course I said yes- I love things like that. Then it hit me-hang the plates in your dining room. And just like that, decorating dilemma solved. So, I went and got some plate hangers from Hobby Lobby and hung them today. I love them and plan on finding more to add to my collection. Thanks Mom! I guess I should also mention that I have a beautiful mirror hanging on another wall in my dining room that was also my grandmother's. I love it -it reminds me of her. Anywho-here's the plates and the mirror-whatcha think? (Again, sorry the pics are blurry-taken with the phone)

I bought the bird plate at Pier1- not an antique, but I loved it and thought it would look cute.

Pardon the towel-I was trying to figure out how I wanted to arrange the plates and I didn't want them to scratch the table, ha.

P.S. Its only been a few days since my last post...pretty good, huh?

May and June

So, I never promised I'd be very good at blogging and I think that is pretty obvious since I haven't written anything since April, ha! Lets see, what has been going on with us the past 3 months....Adam and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary on June 8. I can't believe that we've already been married for 2 years! Thats crazy! This is us on our wedding day, June 8, 2007.

Adam got to go to Seattle for work a few weeks ago and he had a blast! They got to go to the Seattle Center and see the Space Needle and Pike's Market and all kinds of fun stuff.

The Needle:

View from the top of the needle:

Nike Town:

He really had a good time and said that he wants us to go back soon. I'm not gonna argue with that! I'm always down for a fun trip!

Lets see...what else is new... Oh!!!! Guess what?!?!?

WE GOT ANOTHER PUPPY!

Her name is Kali and we think that she is a Duck Tolling Retriever mix. She is absolutely precious and her and Sadie get along very well. We rescued her from the animal shelter and the vet thinks she is around 11 weeks old. She is so sweet. Here are just a few pics of the pups.

First bath!

Aren't they cute?

Well, I think those are the highlights of May and June. It is possible that I have left some things out. I guess thats what I get for not doing a better job at keeping up with this, ha. I hope that all of you are enjoying your summer in this HOT West Texas heat! I promise it won't be 3 months until my next post, ha!

Our Newest Addition

Ok, so maybe Adam didn't fix our laptop. Turns out the hard drive was fried so there was no reviving it. However, as of today, we are the proud owners of the new iMac! It's pretty awesome! For those who are curious, it looks like this: 

Adam's pretty excited about it, and I have to admit that I am too because now I can blog again!!! Yay!!! I am not even going to try to attempt to catch up on posting all that has taken place in the last 2 months that I haven't blogged so I figure new computer = fresh start, right? Anyway, things have been going well with us here in the McInturff home, I don't think anything too exciting has happened. Oh!We did get a new dining room table thats pretty cool. We can now seat 6 people instead of four and the table doesn't wobble when you touch it. (Sorry for the blurry pic, took it with the phone)

Well, I should probably get back to folding laundry and let Adam finish setting up the computer but I was just so excited that we had one again that I wanted to post just a little something in celebration! Speaking of celebration, they are making a "Where the Wild Things Are" movie! I loved that book as a kid. My Aunt Cristy would read it to me all the time! It comes out in October and you can bet that I will be there opening night! I can't wait! I have watched this trailer like a million times- its gonna be so great!