mamahall: around here lately // 💖 october

i just love this time of year! all the emoji hearts and praise hands for october! this month is reward and relief from a long, hot summer and the busy back to school bustle. now we can breathe crisp cool air, wrap up in a cardigan, watch acorns fall and leaves change colors, and get excited about the holiday season ahead. plus it's my birthday month so byaay! october is my happy place!

some of my october highlights:

i drink from this mug year round but it feels extraordinarily special having coffee with Sally and Jack in october!

super fun birthday party zumba class! my face is "did you take the picture yet?"

hello my name is BIRTHDAY GIRL

my birthday morning with bubba. after we dropped haile off at school we hit up the 'bucks drive thru. i had a giant drip coffee. he had a sugar skull decorated cookie. #treatyoself

hubs surprised me and had our 40 year old piano tuned! this is in process, it was so strange to see it gutted and disassembled. it was back and good as new within a couple of days. it sounds so incredible now! i completely escape reality when i'm playing the piano.

birthday dinner! they are the greatest gifts!

still thinking about this cupcake... and this special night with my fam. ;) they are the most fun.

howdy folks, welcome to the State Fair of Texas! gorgeous day at the fairgrounds. one of my favorite october traditions! bubba rode the Ferris wheel for the first time, both kids won big on the midway, we had world famous corndogs, saw the Taylor Swift museum exhibit, and did all the fun things.