Halloween

I will forever love this picture. Snapped as we were leaving.

Halloween school party

Getting the girls ready for trick-or-treating was an interesting task to say the least.

Sugar High already

Love this shot of Ava. Taaa-Daaa

I made the girls' fairy wings out of wire hanger and panty hose, an idea from Pinterest. I let Audrey decorate her own and Ava's were covered in glitter flowers.

Love their green hair. Ava let me put make-up on her but Audrey did not. Shocking actually....

I was a gypsy with my fairies.

Love this shot

Meltdown to end the evening.

Audrey's Big Girl Bed

Here's one of the projects I've been working on. It's been a long one, a month and a half to be exact but who's counting, but I couldn't be more in love with the long awaited completion.

This is an old, antique bed that has been in my husband's family for years. My in-laws drove it in from Georgia and before that it was my hub's uncle's bed when he lived in Texas. I'm very sentimental and I love the fact that we are passing it down to our daughter. When I saw a picture of it, I knew it was the one. I mean, how perfect is the gorgeous heart on the headboard? Perfect for a 2 year old little girl!

I ordered Annie Sloan's chalk paint in Duck Egg Blue & Old White and jumped in head first. I've never used this product before and I can't tell you enough good things about it. I LOVE it! So easy, dries fast, no fumes, no primer! A little pricy but I justified the price tag with not having to buy primer. It probably would've added up to be the same amount.

Here it is after 2 coats of the Duck Egg Blue

After dry brushing it with Old White and whiping off with a damp rag

Final stages of sanding. It sands so well and I got to bust out my mom's electric sander. I really wanted an aged look and the sander did just that.

Here it is after the final touch~clear wax

GORGEOUS!!!

I ordered the fab pillows from Kenilworth on Etsy. Going for 'cottage shabby shic' decor.

After I applied the wax to it yesterday, I was soooo impatient and dragged it in the house (by myself) and set it up. That headboard is so heavy but I couldn't stand it. The good thing is it's on rollers so it helped me out a little bit.

With the safety guard in tact, the temporary full comforter is too big, so I'm on the hunt for a twin white quilt that wont hang over the side rails to complete the look.

The girls love it and wanted to jump and play all evening.

It was difficult to get a good pic because of her excitement.

It was worth the wait when she squealed with delight and said, 'ohhhh pretty'!

Love her!

linking up to Miss Mustard Seed's Furniture Party~check it out!! Lots of amazing furniture redos for inspiration!

Easter Weekend

Saturday was the day I've been waiting for for a while. The thought of coloring Easter eggs with my girls got me sooo excited. Last year Audrey & I didn't partake in the coloring process because she was all over the place and way too young. I knew she would love it this year, which she did and she was really good at it. I dragged Conor away from the couch at 9am to join in on the fun.

It really was the cutest thing ever!!

Saturday night I kicked the hub out and had the girls over for a Champagne & Cupcake Party. I found this cupcake recipe online and knew I had to throw something together for the ladies. We nibbled on a cheese & fruit platter, chocolate covered strawberries & a champagne cocktail while decorating our cupcakes and kids' easter baskets.

It was divine!

I found myself at Target quite a bit leading up to Easter. It's really easy to go a little overboard when picking out items for the baskets. I literally couldn't help myself. The theme was Dora & Hello Kitty and Audrey loved it!

The Easter Basket Cupcakes turned out to be adorable!!

I think this may be my tradition every year!

::Easter morning::

LOTS of Sugar. Maybe worse than Halloween!

My family came over and Conor grilled out hamburgers and hotdogs.

We tried to hide eggs outside but the weather wasn't cooperating that day.

So we moved the hunt inside.

Sneaky!

So I had this vision of dressing the girls up in their matching Easter dresses on Easter morning, going to church, snapping some pics of us dressed up in our Sunday best, having a picnic at the park & hiding eggs for the kids while the weather was so sunny and pretty. Well my plan got shot down like no other!!

None of that happened!! We didn't go church. It poured down rain all day. Instead of the girls looking pretty in their dresses, they resembled a 'Hobo' on the street. Seriously, all Audrey needed was a grocery cart full of empty cans and she would've been set. Ha! She refused to take off her new Dora night gown and she wore ALL the jewelry that she found in her basket~which was about 10 pieces.

So here we are. In our Easter picture, looking like scrubs. I can't help but laugh out loud. It just goes to show you, you can never plan anything and sometimes it's what you don't plan that turns out to better than what you expected. We had a great weekend with family and made some fun memories. Next weekend however, we will be dressing up and going to church, and maybe even hiding Easter eggs outside again (if the weather permits)!

I was about to pop 1 Easter ago. :)

2 Easters ago in Georgia, Audrey was 3 months

Hope you had a Happy Easter!

Gymnastics

Audrey's been to gymnastics twice now, and loves it. It's a lot to take in as a 2 year old, so she's ALL over the place. It's hard to keep up with her, but I do my best trying to lead her to the next station.

We had just arrived and she was watching her new gym friends enter the building.

:Overload:

Balance Beam

1st flip

I think it hurt her belly

This is Audrey's favorite spot, on the circles by the jump pit.

A ring pop to celebrate. Don't you just love her leg warmers?

Funny story about these pink shoes. Audrey is so infatuated with them. She has worn them to bed for almost a week now. I'm convinced she would wear them in the tub if I would let her. After she'd gone to sleep a couple of nights ago, I snuck into her room to take off her shoes. She shot straight up out of a dead sleep the minute I unvelcroed them and started bawling when she realized I was taking them off.

I let her keep them in bed. :/

Not really a good habit to reinforce shoes on the bed, but I don't know what else to do. They're the first thing she asks for when she wakes up and the last thing before bed. Maybe I need to start stockpiling them for the years to come??

Ava's a scrappy lil thing. She wants what she wants, when she wants it! Gimme that sucker!

They're pretty darn cute together!

Is the 'sleeping with your shoes on' thing normal?