Fri-YAY Favorites!

Fri-YAY!!!  Welcome to the week-end!  I know everyone loves Fridays but now they are even more fun since I'm linking up with others for Friday Favorites and Five on Friday!  I can't wait to see what you guys have on your lists this week!  So...without further adieu, here are my random Friday Favorites!

* my hubby!!! - Today is my sweet hubby's 44th birthday.  I have had a blast this week celebrating him!  I decided that anyone could have a day of celebration but a week of celebrations would be way more fun.  I've done little things each day to celebrate his birthday week.  He's not into cheese-y gifts but I'm pretty sure he started looking forward to what was coming next!  We've got a super fun surprise for him when he comes home from work today!  Check out the serving starts at home - encore addition post to see more!

this summer we survived a 2 week, 4,800+ mile cross country road trip with the three kiddos - we must be in love (or crazy!)

my favorite is when Hope asks us to kiss "side to side" :)

* Darby Girl by Darby Smart - If you have a young girl in your life that loves making crafts, this is PERFECT for her!  It's a bi-monthly mystery craft box filled with everything you need to make an amazing DIY project.  So far, Holden has made rhinestone headbands, a tie-dye project, a painted bag, and this month was a super cute fairy door necklace.  And, the timing of this month's box was perfect - we received it right before Carly was coming over.  You can read more about Darby Girl by Darby Smart here.

 

  everything - including the three green handled "plier" type tools were included in the box!

the girls showing off their fairy door necklaces!

* a new bag!!! - I'm such a sucker for a new bag so I couldn't resist grabbing this one when Pinterest Told Me To (she mentions the bag toward the end of her post)!  I'm not big into fashion but show me a nice bag and I seriously swoon!  This should show up on my doorstop any day and I.can't.wait!!!

Sole Society Mason weekender bag

* Colby's lockers - This is only my third Friday Favorites post but in the past two (here and here), I've shown you something I love about each of the girls' rooms.  Thought I would continue this week by showing you something out of Colby's room and maybe I'll continue the trend each week with choosing something from our house that I love.

Back to Colby's lockers... when Colby was a little boy, I would look aimlessly at the Pottery Barn Kids catalog and dream of the perfect little boy room.   His room would be all-boy and definitely would include lockers.

this isn't exactly what I remember from PBK but you get the idea

Sweet hubby took one look at the price tag and it was a deal breaker (I can't remember exactly what it cost but more than $500, less than $1000 - looking back, I must have been sleep deprived cause that's A LOT of money for lockers!).  Then our neighbor mentioned that one of the local ISD's was having a surplus sale and there might be lockers there. Much to my delight - there were!  We bought a bank of lockers - 6 on top and 6 on bottom for a whopping $20!  We split them with our neighbors and the rest is history!  I truly wish I had the foresight to have taken a before picture, but I didn't.  :(  Let's just say, imagine the lockers in your middle school that had been there for years.  To say these lockers were in bad shape is a gross understatement.  I mentioned they were only $20, right?!  Many, many hours were spent getting these lockers back in working condition, dents removed, and completely re-painted.  We've had these lockers for over 10 years and I think they are perfect!

Sorry for the poor quality of my pics lately!  My good camera took a swim in a bag of spilled Gatorade and hasn't been the same since! :/

 * Pumpkin Patches - My kids were beyond excited to go take pictures at the pumpkin patch pick out their pumpkins this week!  This isn't a fancy pumpkin patch, it's just a corner lot with some pumpkins on palettes but it's where we go almost every year to get our pumpkins (we are Aggies - if we do something more than once - it's a tradition!).

monkey see, monkey do!

full of sass!

this was on par for the day - I couldn't get all three to look - but, I'll take the sweet way Hope has her hand on Colby any day!

It's a Halloween miracle!  I NEVER can get a pic of these two in the same proximity without Hope (AND they actually are smiling!)!

Hope was busy picking out the perfect pumpkin!

I tried to get them to pick this one - it looks like it already has a face!

pumpkins for everyone!

I hope you have a great Fri-YAY and an even better weekend!  Thanks for stopping by!

Gig 'em and God bless!

Holly

linking up with Andrea, Erika and Narci

linking up with April, Christina, Natasha, and Darci