To shop for groceries is human; to decant them, divine.

While browsing the "Off Duty" section of the WSJ (which, lets face it, is probably the only part I really care about) today, I stumbled upon a great website...fisheddy.com. I love the lifestyle boost: small projects with big impact column because that's exactly what it is- small and simply projects that really have a big impact. Today is containers of joy. Transferring you milk into a glass bottle. Using a pretty bowl to hold salt (which we actually already do). Keeping dry goods in ball jars. You get the point. One of their butter dishes came from the funky little website, so I decided to check out it. WOW! I've already got a wish list a mile long.

One of my FAVORITE things about fall is decorating Pumpkins! I've been browsing for ideas for a few weeks now, so I've got all kinds of ideas floating around in my head. So my plan this week while Gavin is gone (Boo) is to finish my pumpkins. We already have all the fall decorations out and the house looks very festive!! One of my other favorite things about fall is sampling all the yummy treats. This month's Taste of the South magazine had all kinds of tasty bites that I may have to whip up too!

But even alone it was beautiful and he fed the fire to cut the night chill. There it is again, he thought, that late summer chill to the air, the smell of fall.
--From the 1987 young adult novel Hatchet by Minnesota writer Gary Paulsen.

Gavin and I have been so busy lately between wedding planning and life in general, I haven't even had a chance to think about blogging...until tonight! I was on the treadmill earlier (where I always seem to have random thoughts) and realized it had been FOREVER since I had blogged! Sorry to anyone (is there anyone??) who actually reads this. If so, I'll bring you up to speed... We had our engagement photo session yesterday afternoon with our amazing photographer Catherine Marie Rhodes (check her out at cmrphotographer.com) and had a great time. Well...I had a great time! Gavin, on the other hand, wasn't exactly thrilled about getting our picture taken for so long but I think he secretly enjoyed it. We wandered all over downtown Columbia and grinned all day. I've already been able to look through them in the proofing gallery and we've picked out favorites to order for save the dates and newspaper announcements. We will soon be sending out our save the dates and you can see the pic's we have picked :)