A few weeks ago, we bought ourselves a kite at one of the consignment stores. We took it out to the park last weekend to see it fly. It actually did better than I thought it would, but ended up breaking after one too many crash landings. The kids had fun with it, so I think we'll be getting another one sometime.
I read online or in a magazine, I can't remember which, about painting a glass jar orange with some tape on it to look like a pumpkin. I didn't have the correct paint, so I thought I would end up storing in my brain for future use. Then, this week, one of the girls who works with Erik sent him home with a whole supply of acrylic paint--just what I needed! I bought a little glass and taped some eyes and mouth on it, and put Kayleigh to work making a pumpkin. It's not perfect by any means, but isn't it cute??
Then I found this idea online for some nice fall decorations. We already had the wine glasses, and I bought the little pumpkins at Walmart when I bought the glass for Kayleigh to paint. In the picture online, it has the pumpkins in the bottom and candles on top. I figure this works just as well. This is pretty much the extent of our fall decorating. We'll bring some more stuff out for Christmas, but that's really the only time we go big.
