This is Connor’s new hat. I ordered it from Zulily last week for $11.00. Of course we had to have a photo shoot 🙂 Bless his heart…the Lord knew I needed a cooperative baby when it comes to taking photos.

I also busted out the Kitchenaid mixer. The one I begged for….I begged for this thing for two whole years. Terence says it just collects dust on the counter…I can’t disagree with him. Anyways, I was channelling my inner “Martha” last night and baked some pumpkin bread. It was really good and moist, the only thing I would do next time is add more spice!

Yes – The title of this post is “Fall Weekend” because it’s FINALLY starting to feel like fall in the great state of Texas!!! I’m so excited and there are a bunch of things I’m really looking forward to doing this fall.
I want to carve a pumpkin, take Connor trick-or-treating, and I would also like to go to the Texas State Fair because I have never been before. I have got to try all that fried food!

Our weekend wasn’t too exciting. We caught up on some shows on our DVR. I am so excited we actually have good TV again 🙂 We pretty much just spent time together as a family and enjoyed the great weather.
Connor’s Nannie gave him this frog for the bathtub, but he LOVES to suck on the legs. He loves them so much that after I fed him his bottle Saturday morning he croaked because he stuck the legs too far down his mouth! He threw up everywhere….ick!

While we were out and about I found the new Bakerella cookbook

“Cake Pops”
This book is amazing and has such great photos

Look at these OWL cake pops!!!!

He’s on the move…world look out!!!

He’s been inch worming around all over the place

We also had dinner with Connor’s Great Granddaddy Saturday night and Grandma Nell 🙂

We love them so much & are so blessed to have them in our lives!

Of course the weekend involved Starbucks ya’ll!

The Starbucks Diva wall is still going strong!

Email your pics to beckylbranch@gmail.com

Speaking of coffee, in an effort to save a buck….

Terence and I got a Nespresso machine this weekend and we LOVE it!

You just put the little tabs in there and bada bing = espresso!!!

AND A WHOLE LOT CHEAPER THAN STARBUCKS!!!!

Of course I will still visit my fave coffee joint, but in these sad economical times I have to look for ways to save and still get my jump start in the morning. We went and purchased the vanilla syrup and caramel syrup from Starbucks, so it pretty much tastes exactly like the drink I get at Starbucks 🙂

These are all the different flavors of espresso

Also wanted to mention a new movie I am excited to see in 2011!

It’s called “Vamps” and stars Alicia Silverstone

INFO:

The feature film, Vamps, which reunites Alicia Silverstone with her Clueless director Amy Heckerling, is set to start shooting in Detroit this week.

Written and directed by Heckerling, the movie is about two beautiful vampires, Silverstone and Krysten Ritter, who are living the good life in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize her immortality.

Vamps also stars Sigourney Weaver, Richard Lewis, Wallace Shawn, Justin Kirk, Dan Stevens and Todd Barry.

The movie is being produced by Ben Stiller’s production company, Red Hour Films

I was asked by Mom Bloggers Club if I would like to review the new Libman Freedom Spray Mop & of course I said YES!

With a new baby I am constantly cleaning and scrubbing the floors. I’ve tried every kind of mop it seems, so I’m going to give you my honest opinion of this one. I have to say I really really liked it a lot! Some of the things I like about it are that you don’t have to buy a pre-made cleaning solution, you can just poor your own cleaner (whichever you prefer) into the mop. I use a separate cleaner for wood floors in my home. Also, the mop pad really scrubbed my floors! It didn’t just graze the surface like a lot of similar mops do. The cleaner sprayed evenly and I felt like my floors had a good cleaning, it was light weight and very easy to use.

Above is the scrub pad
Here I am scrubbing away!
This mop was so light weight I literally flew around the kitchen 🙂
The cleaning compartment was very easy to remove and fill
The Libman Freedom Mop was very easy to maneuver in and out of all those tight places!

Some of the great features about the Libman Freedom Spray Mop:

■Freedom to choose any cleaning solution you want to put in: Your favorite cleaner, plain water, environmentally friendly solution etc. Removable bottle for easy filling.

■Freedom from costly and wasteful disposable pads- reusable microfiber pad can be machine washed up to 50 times. Safe on all flooring surfaces.

■Freedom from batteries- trigger sprayer allows you to control how much liquid is coming out
Just grab and go, no heavy messy buckets to lug around

■Quality manufactured in the USA (Arcola, IL) by a 4th generation family owned company.

■Sold fully assembled in the mop and broom section of your favorite store

■The Freedom Spray Mop will be available at retailers nationwide beginning August 2010 with a suggested retail price of $19.99 to $24.99.

I’m also giving away (1) Libman Freedom Spray Mop

To Enter :

• “Like” Libman on Facebook & let me know you did so

• Follow my main blog or review blog & let me know
  
  (Contest ends: Friday, Oct. 1st)
  Happy cleaning everyone!!!

I could not wait to show you all Connor’s Halloween costume! I have absolutely no patience because I get too excited about this sort of thing. I’ve been waiting YEARS to dress my child in a costume and I finally get to do it! Here he is Connor the astronaut….

I think he looks precious! I just hope he doesn’t burn up because it is Texas and it usually doesn’t get cool here until mid-November. It’s also something that both Terence and I both agreed on.

Speaking of astronauts : “Houston we may have a problem on our hands!”

Future crawler alert!!!! And VERY soon!!!!
He’s been moving and shaking like crazy lately, I know he’ll be crawling in no time!

I found out this week they are building an In-N-Out Burger restaurant literally 5 minutes from where I work!!!! I have only been there a few times when I visited Bonnie in Vegas and it’s so good! In-N-Out here I come!!!

Although I may be more “IN” than “OUT” of there 😛

I hope you all are having a great week friends! XOXO – Becky