Girls going wild

Fred left this morning for a week at the JAG School in Charlottesville. The last time Annabelle and I had a week alone together was when Mike went to Europe over spring break while Fred was deployed. We made a trip to Kansas and then had her wisdom teeth removed. Our plans this time around are not nearly as ambitious or traumatic.

We dropped Fred off at the Kansas City airport this morning and then headed out to do a little shopping before stopping for lunch at our favorite Mexican restaurant. Looks like shopping and restaurants will figure prominently on the week's agenda, and we are also going to try to catch a movie Wednesday evening.

Our big accomplishment today was stopping by Home Depot for some flowers to spruce up the front porch. I have to admit that 2 shopping carts full of flowers and planters looked much more substantial at the store than they do up against that big ol' porch, but it's a start:





The 2 baskets that are currently sitting on the steps are going to hang from hooks in the ceiling, but I can't reach that high, so that will have to wait until Fred gets home. Also, I think I am going to get smaller pots of mums to go up the steps on either side. Or maybe alternating mums and pumpkins?

I also replaced my summer wreath with an autumn wreath today. It makes a nice frame for this artsy-fartsy self-portrait: