It's that time of week again, time for Happies & Crappies. If you ever want to link up head on over to Steph's blog at The Vintage Modern Wife or Amber over at Brunch with Amber .

Happies:

1. This weekend we finally don't have anything planned and we get to just relax at home! I love hanging out with family and friends, but sometimes you just need those weekends where you do absolutely NOTHING!! 

2. Remember that photo I posted last Friday, the one of the Lake and the gorgeous fall colors? Well, a local newspaper was hosting a contest on their Facebook page and whomever won best photo of Fall foliage would get their photo used as the newspaper's cover photo. Guess who won, ME!! They may even publish some of their favorite photos in the paper as well! 

3. Saw the sweetest tweet today from my AMAZING friend Katie over at Vintage Vinyl Journals! Beneficial Bank is one of the sponsors of the PA Conference for Women that was going on today and tweeted, "We believe in the power of possibility. Tell us about a woman who has motivated you to unlock your potential – we’ll RT you! #PennWomen" My friend Katie responded with, "@BeneficialBank @WorldAroundHer inspires, motivates and encourages me with my business. She's a hard worker & maintains a great attitude too" Well if that didn't make my year! LOVE YOU KATIE!

Crappies

1. Monica over at East Coast Creative hasn't been experiencing the best week, along with her little one. He was admitted to the local Children's Hospital and had to have surgery. He is doing much better, but was in the hospital all week and for Halloween as well. It always hurts my heart when kids get sick and have to have surgery. They have a great support team though, with lots of love and prayers from the online and offline community, which is always nice to have in times like these.  

I can't really complain about much myself, after hearing updates of her little guy in the hospital, I am pretty thankful for everything and everyone in my life. 

Today is November first, can't believe it! Everyone is starting their 30 Days of being thankful on their Facebook pages, so I'm going to post on my blog thankful notes too! 

Day 1: I'm thankful for a beautiful and warm Fall day of almost 70 degrees...which is very rare here in the northeast. Last year it was snowing, and if it wasn't that warm today, the rain we had would have been snow! 

I get to look at this view from my home office window! Have you downloaded the Rhonna Designs app yet, I love the quotes and adorable little graphics! I hope you have a great weekend!

Wordless Wednesday: Halloween Edition!

Happies & Crappies

I'm trying to keep up with my blog, so I thought it would be fun to link up with one of my favorite bloggers, Miss Stephanie over at The Vintage Modern Wife. So link up with her and post your list of Happies and Crappies from your week! I have to say I am very blessed with many happies lately!
Happies: 
1. It's Fall y'all! Like I mentioned in my previous post, I really love this time of year. We were considering getting married in Fall, but pushed the wedding back to the following Spring so we could have a bigger budget! I loved our colors for Spring, but deep purples would have been gorgeous with the beautiful Fall foliage. 

So pretty and peaceful, I took this photo at the lake near our house. 

2. We finally picked up our pumpkins for carving! Last year we never carved or purchased any pumpkins and my youngest step-daughter wasn't too happy about it, she told us this year we better get them! I'm still not sure if I want to carve or just create a pretty design with some washi tape and paint/markers? What do you think? 
3. Tomorrow we are going to a Halloween birthday party and we get to dress up! This is the first year we have actually dressed up as a couple, twice in fact! A few weeks ago we went to my husband's cousin's kid's 4th birthday party...that's a mouth full huh! I dressed up as a retro/ Sandy from Grease type of chick with a bandana in my hair and wore black tights (yoga pants), with a black top. My husband was a biker, and looked pretty cool too! This weekend the theme for the party is witches and vampires, I'm so excited! 

My outfit didn't really stand out as a costume, so I'm excited to really get into character this weekend! 

Crappies:

1. The weather has been so bizarre this season. I had a cool, dark denim jacket I was going to wear for the Halloween party mentioned above and it ended up being 80 degrees that day! It was earlier this month, but still crazy hot for October! Oh, but now it's 50 degrees out only a few weeks later, and in the 30's at night! This is a definite crappy!  

2. Right now I'm not too happy with my food habits and lack of fitness routine. I know I shouldn't be too hard on myself, because I still fit in the clothes I was wearing last year, but some of the sweaters are a little snug. I just don't want to go back to the unhealthy state I was a few years ago. It can be hard to keep up, especially when you work from home. But I am now on my fourth day of getting back into doing my Jillian Michaels DVDs, love them and her! So I'm on the right track! 

3. My hair is in the middle of a transition, it isn't long and it isn't short! LOL! OK, it's still short, but it just has this awkward look going on. I'm not sure how to style it, so pretty much I just straighten it or blow dry it, but it seems to be laying weird. I miss my long hair, so I think I want to keep it about shoulder length. GROW HAIR...GROW! 

Leaving you with a little happy for your weekend, how cool is this guy?! 

I took this photo a few weeks ago at our local park, I love my Canon camera!  OK, go link up and have a great weekend! 

Are you dressing up for Halloween or any parties this year?