Fall Is Here!!

 Fall is here!!!! I L.O.V.E. this time of year!! The air outside is fresh and crisp and it just smells like fall! I love it! During this time of year I start getting very antsy. I can't wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas where I can see and spend time with my family! Not to mention my mind starts to fill with fantasies of pumpkin pie, jacket weather, sledding and Christmas trees! But then I remember that I still need to get past Halloween before I can start thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas...which I am actually very ok with! Since I have been married I have come to LOVE Halloween! I don't know why, but I love decorating for Halloween. I think...no, I *know that I have more decorations for Halloween than I do for Christmas! I really want to change that though because Christmas is still my favorite holiday...I just don't have very many Christmas decorations. But it's ok 'cause I'm sure that over the years I will collect more than I know what to do with. :) Anyways, it's been a little while since I last updated my blog so I'm just gonna share lot's of pic's to catch you up with the Sanders Family.

I guess there are some perks to having a husband who works on the mountain all the time. See this beautiful bouquet of flowers Kiley picked and brought home for me one day?! Aren't they gorgeous?! The pic really doesn't do them justice. They were prettier than any store bought flowers I have ever seen. I also love that they are arranged in a gatorade bottle. :) My hubby knows just how to make my day! I love him muy mucho!

Azuree is growing up so fast!!!! She is running all over the place and she now has 6 teeth (that we are aware of). She is finally starting to get some hair, but not really enough to do anything with. So I don't even try to tame it, which...I don't know why, but I really love Azuree's fuzz head! I think it's so cute! Anyways, here's a few pic's of our extremely energetic and CUTE Azuree...

  I know that in this pic Azuree doesn't look happy at all, but she really was having so much fun walking around in daddy's button-up shirt! She walked around in it for at least a good 5 minutes. It was so funny. :)

 Now these might be my favorite pic's ever! Kiley, Azuree and I were able to go to the festival of homes here in Cedar City and we really enjoyed it! We loved seeing all the beautiful houses and getting ideas and dreaming about what we would do to our house if we could. But at one of the houses they had a log bed that Kiley was curious about how they put it together. So he got down on the floor to look at how it was put together and Azuree got right down with him! She wanted to see what Daddy was looking at! I thought it was the cutest thing!

  Another house had a slide going from the first floor to the basement and Kiley and Azuree really enjoyed  going down the slide. :)

 We had some friends over for dinner one night which was so fun! I love these people so much!

 One Sunday after church, while trying to entertain Azuree, we decided to make a fort! (I think it ended up entertaining Kiley more than Azuree ;) It was so much fun! It made me really excited that I have many more years of sheet and pillow forts in the family room to look forward to. It makes me happy and warm inside just thinking about it. I love being a parent! It's the most amazing and rewarding thing that has ever happened to Kiley and I. We love spending time with Azuree and watching her grow and learn. Can't wait to see what she does next! ;)

  This little girl and this little dog love each other so much!!! They are the cutest thing to watch as they play together!

 First..."pony tail!" (If you could even call it that...) I couldn't resist trying to see if she finally had enough to even put a hair tie in it. She did...barely. It was pretty cute though. :)

Our big girl is now in a front facing car seat! She is growing up so fast!

Here's a few pic's of one of my "latest" projects. I finished it a while ago but never put pic's of it up. So here they are! I went to a yard sale and got this awesome shelf from our friends and I was SO excited to get it! I knew exactly where I wanted to put it when I saw it.

Before...

 After!

 

 I was pretty happy with how it turned out.

 Here's just a few of my fall/Halloween decorations. I have been holding myself back BIG time because it's still September and I didn't really feel like it was time yet to break out all the Halloween decorations. But...I put these up in the middle of September and I don't think I can wait till the end of September. I have had the Halloween tote out of storage for a while now and I think today might be the day to open that baby up! So excited!! :)

 

 I'm so weird. I get super excited about the tiniest things. I was so excited about these spiders! I made them! Yup, I did! All it takes is some wire, hot glue and black spray paint. I had fun making them and I actually might make some more...or a lot more. Who knows. :)

 We went and watched Kamron and Layton play football in Parowan the other day. This is the only pic we got. We had so much fun watching them play! I only wish we could make it to more games.

 Well, that's it for now!

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Albert Camus