halloween weekend

Friday night, we headed to Faith's Trunk or Treat...

Camp quickly got the hang of it and ended up with some yummy treats!

On Saturday we carved our pumpkin...this year I bought one of those carving kits with templates. It was definitely easier to carve than with a kitchen knife, but the carving tools they give you are pretty flimsy...definitely disposable! :)

Camp really got into carving the pumpkin. He chose the ghost template and he was pretty pleased with the way it turned out. He would ask several times a day to go out on the front porch and see our pumpkin.

On Sunday, we headed to the woods...Camp thought he was pretty cool with this on!

Adam wanted to put up a deer stand and Camp followed Adam everywhere he went...

Cute little boy!

On Monday, Camp had his Halloween parade at school...I hid behind my camera so he wouldn't see me! :)

At the very end of the parade I came out of hiding and this is right after Camp spotted me!

Monday night...all ready to go trick or treating!

definitely in character!

Holly came to our house in her first costume of the night!! :) She later changed into Dorothy to match Sally Kate!

Hadley, Reese, Sally Kate, & Carson

our sweet pirate

the hayride crew...

I think the kiddies had lots of fun!! They were all pros at trick or treating...they'd get off the hayride and run as fast as they could to the next house.

our last stop of the night was at yaya and bop bop's...we were their first (and only) trick or treaters so we all got lots of m&m's!!!!

What a fun Halloween!!!

 I loved seeing Camp's excitement...he had a blast!

ruffles take the peach state + a trip to bebe's

Last Thursday, Camp and I headed to Blue Ridge to see Bebe & Chandler (we were so sad that Papa had to go back to work just the day before )

They've moved into their beautiful new home and I was so excited to check it out...this view is enough for me, but their house is just as gorgeous!

After the sun had set...

view in the morning...

the gorgeous kitchen...

We spent lots of our time at my favorite place in Blue Ridge...Merciers!

Camp loves Merciers too...here he is looking for the "bird" he shot. :)

Playing with the tractors...

On Friday, I left Camp in BR with Bebe (thank you, bebe!!) and headed south to Atlanta to meet up with the Ruffles!!

We dined at Taqueria del Sol, Friday night. It was sooooooo tasty and I've been craving their fried chicken tacos ever since.

Mary tempting me with a margarita...

Yummy salsa trio.

The chips, guac, and queso were just fabulous too...

yum

On Saturday we headed to VA Highlands for shopping and lunch...I stole this picture from Heather. :)

yummy lunch at murphy's...photo courtesy of mary

Saturday, we ate dinner at one of my favorite places, JCT Kitchen. I had the sweet onion and fontina agnolotti, the fall version of the sweet corn and goat cheese filled pasta that I got when I went to JCT Kitchen with Beth in March of 2010. I dream about that pasta daily, but this fall version was mighty tasty as well!! We also had their pimento cheese appetizer and it was delish!!

Sunday morning we headed to Canoe for brunch (are you seeing a trend in these ruffle getaways? We plan our trips around the food!!!)

This is Holly's pretty soup...was it butternut squash??

And the she-crab soup...this was amazing. Heather ordered it, but let me share it with her!

Beautiful Canoe...

an impromptu maternity photo session with mary...haha.

It was a wonderful rendezvous, as they always are!! Can't wait for the next one... 

it's fall y'all

The new Halloween wreath I made this year...I saw lots of wreaths like this on Pinterest, but in black...I figured the orange would look pretty cute against our black door. I love the way it turned out...very funky, but fun!!

I made the tastiest cake a few weekends ago...the best part was the pumpkin spice buttercream. Oh my, it was soooo good! I brought it over to Yaya & Bop Bop's for a cookout and everyone loved it.

Camp heard it was Della's (Yaya & Bop Bop's black lab) birthday so he wanted to bring candles for the cake so we could sing to Della...

We'd almost inhaled the entire cake when Camp reminded us that we needed to sing to Della!

 He'll use any excuse to blow out candles.

Camp's class headed to the pumpkin patch two weeks ago...Adam and I were able to join in on the fun too!

Getting his hand painted...

that thing didn't last long, he wiped it off not long after this picture was taken! :) Look at his face...it's like he's thinking "what the heck is that supposed to be??"

Camp has missed several days of school between going out of town, being sick and a teacher planning day. 

He's finally on the mend and I know he's soooo ready to get back to school. Yesterday, he said "I want to go see my friends" :) I had all intentions on sending him to school yesterday since his fever had been gone since late Tuesday night, but he woke up yesterday morning covered in hives. We were able to get him in to see the doctor (luckily, he had a no show) and he said it was just a case of the hives probably associated with Camp's fever, but it wasn't Roseola. Poor buddy was so uncomfortable and kept asking "tickles my moseego bites" :) We got some good meds, Aveeno baths, and a good nights rest and he's hive free this morning! The dr. said he wasn't contagious and he could go to school even with the hives (and that they might last several weeks!!!) but I'm hoping and praying they are really gone for good!!