windows and wall arts

For my birthday a few weeks ago,

Tyler put up window trim in the dining and living rooms

(He did such a good job)

I love it!!

We still need to caulk and paint the final coat,

but it looks sooo much nicer.

(Ignore the mess in that little nook. We do...
It will one day be a desk and shelves)

I'd been waiting for trim to hang anything on the walls.

(had to make sure everything would be perfectly centered,

 ya know)

Now it feels even more like home

💗

hiking cedar falls

So.

I might have been a tad hasty

in saying that it was already winter.

We did have a couple of cold days,

but we've also had some really lovely autumn days too,

and Friday was one of them.

Tyler was going to be off work,

so I had suggested maybe we take a short trip out to Natural Dam

for some nature therapy,

but we decided to drive 2 hours

east to Petite Jean instead,

and hike down to the base of Cedar Falls.

We've had a decent amount of rain lately,

so I figured the water would be flowing pretty good.

It wasn't.

But 

it was still worth the hike down.

(The hike back up liked to kill me though)

Everyone was sore 

by the time we made it back up the huge mountain

but it was good to spend a day together out in God's beautiful creation.

And it truly was 

a perfect fall day.

what fall?

9 days ago, 

I was in the pool.

Last night

it dropped below 40.

We seemed to have skipped Fall entirely

and gone straight to winter.

~

Josiah and Lily both grew a few inches during the summer

(Josiah is a smidge taller than me now,

and Lily is already over 5 ft)
and have no pants that fit.
zero.
nada.
none