restylin: "Fall up" your front porch

Hello everyone!

Wow, ok so I know it's been awhile since I have posted - my bad! :) Being pregnant takes a lot of you and WITH a 2 & 1/2 year old too...who is verrrrry demanding of his mommy's attention. But anyways, I'm back with a lot of new updates and new projects in the works. Obviously one BIG one is the nursery we will be preparing for our DAUGHTER! That's right, we are having a girl :) Very excited about that. Another thing I am super excited about is that it's fall! Yay! This is my favorite time of year like most peoples I'm sure. And I am typing that as I sit outside with Liam watching him play and me type :)

Here are the things I love about fall:

Cooler weather - duh! As my husband says "shorts and long sleeve shirts kinda weather"
All the pretty fall colors - reds, oranges, yellows, etc.
Yummy fall drinks from Starbucks (which I can't really enjoy this year since being pregnant..you know, no caffeine & they just don't taste as good decaf!)
Hot chocolate! I can have that! :)
Halloween! I love Halloween now more since I have a child, especially a child who is getting older & sorta understands what it is. PLUS we have tons of kids in our neighborhood & everyone here realllly gets into Halloween - I love that!
Thanksgiving, of course! Don't even need to elaborate..
FOOTBALL! We are huge football fans in this house
And lastly - decorating! I'm not realllly into decorating the inside of the house in "fall" gear, but more the outside..hence this post :) But I do like to decorate the inside of the house for Christmas! Can't wait for that..

So yesterday I decided that I needed to go look around at my two favorite stores & see what kind of sales they were having on their fall gear. Of course I am speaking of Hobby Lobby & Old Time Pottery. Hobby Lobby's sales were ok, not great. The sign I got on the door was 30% off, so not too bad. This is what the porch looked like before (& let me remind you, we don't have a big front porch):

Didn't have too much decorating out there for Spring/Summer, but it's something! And here it is after I "falled" it:

Pardon the 2 year old..he wanted to be in the picture :)

So the changes were: New front door sign, new plant stand, pumpkin, two new pottery holders & flowers. This all cost me around $50.00. Which I normally wouldn't want to spend, but since this is our first house, we didn't have anything like this so you have to buy it all initially! So next year, I shouldn't have to spend much or none at all. I think I would like to replace (for now) the front door mat & get something with more fall colors, but we'll keep the blue for now.