calling all shoppers...

our lives took a dramatic turn today. so did our bank accounts.

the new target is here and it's hot. it's clean, beautiful, choked full of goodness at a decent price. what else can we ask for? their food section is actually not bad either. did i mention the separate escalator just for the carts? that alone is worth seeing.

as we ventured in the our new second home, we saw some familiar faces. Shout out the Heather and little man Finlay, who apparently is not buying into the new fashion trend of purple hats. Sorry if that put a damper on his target experience, H :)

Favorite house purchases:

*hats, lots of em: purple felt, newsie cap, navy beret
*moccasins
*66 cent ghiradelli chocolate bars
*purple flats (matches the hat)
*our fav z-bars
*meaningless excitement from the dollar spot

more to come...

the 417 things we like about fall....

last year's fall season: our fav pic of molly attempting to get out of the wagon

susan's proud ribboned pumpkin

this is the first chapter in the long installment of the things we all love about this season. According to Rach's calculations, each roommate would have to come up with 83.4 reasons....so maybe we will work with what we've got, buckle up:
(in no particular order)

1. Football (Ohio State, Navy, Red Skins, other cute NFL players)
2. Windows open (Down side: school buses, the scooter rental store next to us, and the garbage men yelling at 5 am twice a week)
3. Being able to use the heater in our bathroom after showers
4. Sweatshirts- ahhhh
5. Pumpkin patches (see photos from last year)
6. Soup
7. Planning our Christmas party (maybe one roommate enjoys this more than others...)
8. Halloween decor up Oct. 1 (Downside: creepy door decoration sounds like a creature clawing at the door)
9. Front porch sitting
10. Long walks around the Naval Academy stadium (Plus side: minor sweating)
11. Coffee/hot tea in the morning
12. Candles in every room, particularly Passion Fruit Guava (Downside: frequent scares that we burnt the house down from leaving it lit)
13. Our shows are back: The Office, Grays, Molly has a dozen other that she won't let us publish, Project Runway finales
14. Bird decor is finally in (We totally started that trend)
15. The new Target opens soon! (Plus side: other grocery stores are stepping it up, ie the cool new scanner guns at Giant)
16. McKendree late night dance parties that involve less sweating
17. Scarves

18. The mini pumpkin candy corn (Downside: Giant seems to have signed a deal refusing to sell these) 

And what do you love about it??