A Little Monkey Business

It's finished. Braxton's bathroom received it's finishing touches this weekend and it looks fabulous. Brandon, once again, did an incredible job. The paint color turned our great, the motif is adorable, and most importantly Braxton likes it. After all, it is "bue".
I am dying to show you my newly re-upholstered dining room chairs from the dining room set that I was so graciously given by Grandmama but I want her to see it in person first. I have my china in the cabinet and we just got back all the chairs from the re-upholsterer on Saturday. The set is absolutely gorgeous. More on it all later.

My Little "Punkin"

Brax is into "punkins" BIG time this fall. He loves going to Wal-Mart and Target and walking up and down the Halloween aisles. He's a little freaked by the "itch" which surprises me because he loves the Wizard of Oz but he really gets spooked by the witches in the stores. I think the fact that they are motion censored freaks him out a little. He will hide his eyes and bury his head and this past Sunday (so cute) he stood at the end of the aisle watching me while I walked down. He didn't want to have any part of the "itch".
Anyways, we have gotten a new pumpkin every weekend. We have a "daddy punkin and a grandaddy punkin" outside on the porch. We have 4 more real pumpkins inside and just this weekend we picked up 3 more fake ones. 2 of which are blue, Brax's favorite color. Brandon is on fall break this week and he's actually painting our hall bath blue for him. I think it'll turn out real cute. I'll put up some pictures when it's all done.
We are really looking forward to the holidays coming up. We have LOT'S of fun things planned and great times planned with family. I promise to keep you posted.

A Day for Treva

Saturday marked my 10th time walking in the Komen Race for the Cure. I've walked in every one since mama died in 1998. I have been so amazed every year at how many people are affected by it and how proud people are to be survivors. I regret that my mom never saw that. When she died, she was ashamed and people didn't talk about breast cancer like they do now. I wished that she could have lived long enough for us all to rally around her and for us to show our support for her.
Although she wasn't there we did go out to support her yesterday. Dad and Allyson were there at 4:30am to help blow up the 3500 balloons for the survivors to release. 14,000 participants came out to help walk for a cure. Charlotte alone raised over 1 million dollars. I took a picture of one leg of the race. It was amazing! Braxton did incredible. We had to get him up 15 minutes earlier than we do on a school day and he just popped out of bed. It was almost as if he knew the cause. He was a real trooper and at one point even got out of the stroller and held my hand and walked alongside me.
I know Treva was watching. I know she was proud.