A few more pics of Lake Eola

Some tree climbing...

Alot of laughter...
Sisters...
Some ball dribbling...
An amazing day...

My new favorite place

On President's Day, my sisters, kids and her long time friend met up here....Lake Eola

We brought bread for feeding the ducks...and quickly found out that they were not afraid of us as this one came right up to Mandy! Looks like they are having a nice little chit chat!
Mandy & Erin have been friends for-eva! They always try to see each other when Mandy comes into town, so since Erin lives near Lake Eola, she suggested we meet there and I am so glad she did! Sometimes living in a suburb of Orlando, we often forget how quaint and beautiful it is downtown...and it only takes 15 minutes to get there...not bad!
It was a thrill to me to watch my 11 going on 25 year old daughter still have fun playing on the playground!
More playing on this cool tire thingy...

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Handmade ornaments are the best!

For about six years now, I have either gone to or hosted a homemade ornament party every year. My friend, Kendra invited me and when her family moved to Texas I knew that I had to keep the tradition going. It is something I so look forward to!! So, the obvious catch is that you have to hand make six ornaments for this party, so loving to craft is a huge must for this! Every year I am amazed by the creativity of the ornaments they come up with.
Above are just a few that are hanging on my "homemade ornament" tree in my dining room and of course I labeled who made which ornament for your viewing pleasure!

A quick and easy fall centerpiece

I was inspired by The Nester on making my centerpiece and I just tweaked it a bit to make it more my own!  This literally took me 1o minutes to put together...and I am praying it doesn't fall apart because nothing is glued together!  I wanted it that way, so I can reuse the pieces in other things...smart huh?!  

Boo!

This frame is actually in my craft room, but thought I would repurpose it for Halloween!  I just put in some spider print craft paper and used the chipboard letters to spell S*C*A*R*Y~

I do not have a ton of Halloween decorations but I have enough to decorate a little hutch that you see when you walk in our front door.  So, this is as spooky, scary as we Woodard's get!!

*side note*  The black sticks are actually part of a big bundle I use in a large vase...but they were brown.  So I picked out one bundle and spray painted them black to put in this cute orange vase I picked up.  

Plays hard, sleeps hard...

It's 10:00 when we got home on Friday night.  TJ went from school to the park for almost 3 hrs then came home and literally ate a piece of pizza while running outside to play kickball.  Then we went to the OHS football game and after we got home, we sent TJ to take a bath....he.was.FILTHY.  Todd started calling his name but did not get a repsonse from him so when he went to check on him, this is what he saw!!  A passed out, snoring little 9 year old in the bathtub!  TJ likes to play HARD, but when he is done...he is done!!