Little Milestones

How was your weekend? Ours was lovely, productive, and had a few little milestones for us. The first one being the removal of two gates that were keeping Lovebug from the living room (it's sunken with concrete flooring). I HATED having them and really hated keeping her from a room in the house, but we had one incident when she first started walking that scared us pretty bad so they were necessary for awhile. But after 9 months of walking experience, she's got it down :) plus she does really well with steps so we thought she was ready...and so far, so good. She has recently become such a climber and was trying to climb the gates too, which further spurred on the gate removal. She was unbelievably happy when my Love took them down and I so wish I had a picture of her face :).

Afterwards, the house automatically felt bigger for whatever reason which I wasn't expecting. There was alot of rearranging and Lovebug-proofing that had to be done so that took awhile. But it was SO worth it! She loves going up and down the step and just LOVES being in there! There will probably at some point be a fall but we did put rugs down all along the step to hopefully help minimize any pain. Anyway, it's a wonderful little milestone...


Our other one of sorts was my Love and I celebrated 9 years of being together! 9 years ago this past weekend we went on our first date and we've been together ever since. :) We celebrated by going to a local Mexican restaurant which is what we did on our first date too. It was a simple but long dinner and we just chatted about our first date, the last 9 years, and all the MANY MANY ones ahead of us. It has been such a blast and only continues to gets more and more fun! I love you my Love.

Another milestone we tackled this last weekend was that we finally hung something up in the back of the house! We are still in the process of finishing the remodeling of the back, but it's mostly done (minus the bathrooms) and we just haven't hung anything, not wanting to put any nails in our white walls :). Well, for our upcoming 5th wedding anniversary we had this incredible artist paint a masterpiece for us. We just fell in love with her work and had our eye on one particular painting but it sold unfortunately, so instead she created a custom one just for us which worked out even better! Have I mentioned lately that I LOVE and ADORE Etsy?! I seriously do! Anyway, that's a peek of the painting up above...oh how I love it!

So it was indeed a good weekend. Here's to a wonderful rest of the (short) week!

Changing Leaves

Hope everyone had a great Halloween. Ours was pretty quiet with our traditional dinner of polenta pesto-stuffed acorn squash and spiced apple cider. So delicious! Occasionally it was interrupted by the sounds of cute little trick-or-treaters coming up the driveway. We didn't think we were going to have any, but then they finally arrived and our FruitaBu flats were gone pretty fast with just a handful of groups.


Even though it was still in the 80's this last weekend, we could finally see very noticeable changes in the trees around us, as there was a greater variety of colors and more brown leaves had fallen to the ground. It was a nice relaxing weekend...one of those where you really slow down, notice, and enjoy the little things. Every weekend or gosh, every day, should be like that. It is something we at least strive for here at Our Green Nest...


Today is an important day. I felt so blessed to be able to cast my vote for whom I see fit. Such a rush of excitement came over me as Lovebug and I sat down in the booth, and then a rush of pride as we got up and walked out. Hope each one of you got to experience those same feelings today as well!