Five on Friday

How crazy is it that this is the last Friday in October and we officially have less than 2 months until Christmas!? I honestly can't believe it and even though this is my absolute favorite time of year, I wish it would slow down a little. I'm sure November will go even faster because we're going to be pretty busy but with all fun events :)

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I have two delicious, colder weather recipes to share with you today. The first one is the black bean, sweet potato and turkey chili recipe that my friend made for our #BasicFallParty. Every time she's made this recipe, it's been a huge hit!! She said she used this recipe and also added in some cooked, ground turkey.

Two

The second recipe is Owen's crockpot quiona Mexican casserole. Thankfully, I had this dish planned before I knew the colder weather was coming so this hit the spot. I've been going through a phase where I'm not a huge fan of Mexican-type food (outside of Tex Mex) but I couldn't get enough of this stuff! This will definitely be on repeat in our house.

Three
I'm sure everyone is saying the same thing but I am legit obsessed with this cooler weather! We have been so excited to have real fall weather the past few days and even though it's supposed to be in the 80's again today, we all loved the weather in Florida while it lasted. Since it was cooler, I busted out my fall clothes for work and even curled my hair ;)

Try to ignore the dusty mirror... cleaned it the 2nd day lol

Sweater (need one of these in every color) / Skirt - last season / Boots (Similar, Similar) / Purse (Kate Spade Outlet)

Sweater (old) / Button Down / Pants / Shoes (old) / Necklace (on sale!)

Four
I recently found a new, fun podcast which is just in time for Halloween. It's called Deadly Manners and it's a fictional thrilled based on a 1950's murder mystery and is voiced by Hollywood actors. It definitely captures you and at ~30 minutes an episode, it's not too much overload (although I do hate having to wait for the next episodes).

Five
With all of this beautiful weather, we've been coming home after work and going on bike rides through the neighborhood. We love being able to get out and enjoy the weather while getting in some exercise!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I will be utilizing my time by working on all my PPE orders and tomorrow morning I'm doing the breast cancer walk with some co-workers in downtown Orlando.

Baby Sprinkle

A few weeks ago, my SIL had her baby sprinkle for our sweet nephew who is due to arrive in December. I can hardly believe that we've already celebrated our nephew and he will be here so soon!

Doesn't she look amazing?

The sprinkle was hosted at a delicious and super adorable tea room in downtown Orlando - we had a wonderful time. Thankfully, my parents were in town so my mom was able to attend with me which was special since we usually don't get to go to events like this together :)

Sweet baby boy's Aunts!

Last time I got a picture with my mom and MIL was at my bridal shower over 4 years ago!

It was the perfect sprinkle and we are so excited to have another baby in the family!

Linking up with Annie

#BasicFallParty

During one of our girls nights a few months ago, we were talking about how we were all so excited for fall and wanted to do all the fall things - that's when our first annual #BasicFallParty was created. We decided we would have a day that was filled with everything fall... and being super basic ;)



Saturday, we all met up, loaded up in my mom car and made our first stop at Starbucks for PSL's before heading over to a super cute pumpkin patch nearby.

 

 

They had the coolest colored pumpkins there - it took everything in me not to buy a bunch for the front porch

After the pumpkin patch, we headed back to the house for fall drinks, pumpkin snacks, college football then pumpkin carving. 

Ignore the gross looking pitcher, I forgot to get a picture of our Autumn Sipper before we drank it all

Let's be real, Stephen ended up carving most of our pumpkin lol

For dinner, our friend brought over her delicious turkey, sweet potato chili and we ate out on the back porch. It was the most beautiful weather we've seen all year and getting to hang out on the back porch chatting all night was the best!

Next year, we'll have to get cleaner on where we poke holes into our design ;)

It was seriously the best fall party and we can't wait to do it again next year!!