your challenge, should you choose to accept it...

...is to find me a rug for Sara's room that looks similar to this:

 or this:

but has a price tag that doesn't make me die of shock, as in less than $400 vs. the outrageously over priced rugs pictured above. These rugs, while beautiful and everything I want, are just way too expensive. We're talking thousands of dollars, people! For one little rug! Ok, so a big rug. I forgot to mention the main criteria: I want it to be about 8x10.

I did find this rug that I like quite a bit, and its price tag fits nicely under the $400 limit...

...but, as you can see, it's not yellow, and I was kinda hoping for yellow.

Here's a few others I found that are pretty much just what I'm looking for, except that they aren't. These are lacking in one or more criteria (8x10, yellow floral, cheap) but I like the overall look of them.


This one meets two of the three criteria, but isn't yellow as you can see.

another one, I like the flowers, but it's not yellow, and it's too pricey.

This one almost fits under budget, but is the wrong color. Maybe black and white would look okay?

Here's one with cute flowers, but wrong color and not quite the right price.

This one is really elegant, but again, not the right color.

So to sum up, the first person to find me a large area rug with yellow flowers and a non shock-inducing price tag wins. Ready........GO!

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p.s. I was kind of hoping to do a pink and yellow color scheme in Sara's room, hence wanting to get a yellow rug. But am I limiting myself too much by only looking for yellow? Do I really need an 8x10 or would a 5x7 suffice? Do you think one of these options is good enough? If so, which one? It's pretty obvious that I could really use your help here.

Raking Leaves and Going on Adventures

Rob's parents have a really great forested backyard with a gully and small stream running through it. Today Sara and I went back there and played in the leaves and had adventures. Sara kept saying we had to go through all the passageways and find all the rivers. There is only just the one small stream, but in Sara's mind, there were lots of different rivers. She loved it! And it was great to get outside one last time before the cold weather is here to stay!

Giant pile-o-leaves.

backyard adventures.

Once again I only had my phone's camera on me, so sorry for the low quality photos.

How I spent my morning

We woke up to snow yesterday morning, and Sara knew just what we should do with it.

Can you tell who our snowmen are supposed to be?

We only got about a half-inch of snow, but it was perfect for rolling snowmen bodies, aka it was wet snow instead of powder so it stuck to itself easily.

 

Sara was about the same height as the larger two snow people.

But hers was a lot smaller. Quite the resemblance, don't you think?!

She was not cooperating for the photo above. But she sure was excited in the one below!

 Hooray for snow!

p.s. All the snow has since melted and only remains of our snowmen are left. The sun warmed up in the afternoon and Rob's snowman was the first to fall over. Mine leaned so far back that it looked like she was trying to do the limbo, and then eventually fell. The snow around the rocks for Sara's eyes melted so she now has a very droopy face, but her snowman is the only one still standing. For now anyway.