Yellow Rose Arbor: Roses

Tuesday

The Proposal!

Our family had some excitement this past weekend! My first grandchild, grandson Taylor, proposed to his sweet girlfriend, Emily!!

He was very creative with his proposal and he did surprise Emily!

These three little girls are friends of Emily and she has babysat them for years.

Here Taylor, the three little girls, (and their mother was the photographer) wait for Emily to arrive:

Lily helps with the rose petals on the ground:

The signs are in the right order

It's time, line up girls!

Turn the signs to the blank side:

Here comes Emily!

Oh, my! What's going on here??

Are you ready girls?

Each one held a sign and one-by-one they flipped them over to ask the question!

Then Taylor knelt down on his knee!

The ring:

The looks on their faces - priceless!

YES!!!

Placing the ring on her finger!

It's so beautiful!!

Sealed with a kiss!!

and a hug!

So sweet!!

He also brought flowers and balloons!

What a guy, he thinks of everything!!

They also gave the little girls roses for being there to help!

Emily shows Lily her ring

The happy couple!

Congratulations!

May God Bless Your Engagement and Marriage!!

They haven't set the date yet, but are thinking about October

It's going to be a fun year with all the wedding festivities coming up!

(Emily looks like a teen, but she is 21!)

Isn't she a beauty!

How cute is this?

What a great idea, Taylor!!

I'm so happy for you!

Thanks to the little girls for helping,

and to their mother for taking the pictures to share with us!

Taylor and Emily live in Tallahasse, here in FL, too far

away for me to be there for the engagement surprise,

I'm so thankful for electronic equipment to

be able to see all this!

I hope you enjoyed seeing it too!

I'm sure I'll have lots more pictures

to share in the next few months!

P.S. - I tried to change the pictures to extra large, but they didn't work good.

I'm linking to The Tablescaper's Seasonal Sundays! Thanks for hosting, Alma!

Monday

It's still quite hot here in Florida and doesn't feel, or look, like fall at all, but I'm joining in the Welcome Fall Party Rhondi at Rose Colored Glasses is hosting! Click here for lots more fall inspiration.

Since Florida doesn't have a drastic change of seasons, it is a little difficult to go out and pick pretty dried things of nature, colored leaves, berries, etc., so we have to depend upon silk faux leaves and berries for our decor.

My husband does always bring me some pretty real roses in fall colors! He even brought some today!

I add silk colored leaves in with the fresh roses.

Here in Florida we do faux fall decorating with silk fall leaves.
I tuck the silk leaves here and there around the house.

Tucked among the breakfast nook chandy.

Tucked among the crystal chandelier in the dining room.

I do this every year!

Last year some friends were sitting at my dining room table and one of these leaves came falling down! How appropriate, almost like I staged it! LOL! Great timing, they said, "a message from above!"

A white ceramic pumpkin is surrounded with flocked faux leaves.

Faux leaves tucked here and there.

I tuck silk leaves into other floral arrangements.

Yellow and orange flocked leaves are tucked among a few yellow collections.

Vintage treasures

During the fall I display my mother's Jewel Tea Aladdin tea pot, and coffee pot since they have the fall colors on them. On the wall behind is a Thomas Kinkade fall mini painting, one of the four seasons paintings.

I have a scarecrow collection I will share next month. They are still stored in the attic.

I like to decorate for fall with silk sunflowers as well!

I also tuck faux berries into floral arrangements.

I don't do much Halloween decorating, just don't care for Halloween, but I do have three or four cutesy Halloween things I will share in October.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing a few ways I decorate for fall.

I do miss the "smell of fall" a distinct fragrance all it's on. I also miss seeing hills and valleys displaying the splendor of spectacular reds, golds, browns, greens! But, I love the pleasant fall weather we have here in Florida!