Lately

Since I was last here, we had a BIG time with snow storm.

If we would have let her, she would have stayed out there all day.

She kept telling us she never wanted the snow to go away.  That's her daddy in her.  I'm over it in about 2 hours.

We've been in craft mode making favors for C's birthday,

and Easter artwork.

This week is a little busy gearing up for C's 4th birthday.  We've got special plans on her actual birthday plus a party with her friends this weekend.  And not only do we have her party but 2 more birthday parties this weekend for her friends!  I told one of the mom's I wasn't expecting this kind of craziness at their age but it should be fun!

Lots of Birthday Fun

Thursday was my birthday and we celebrated by going to dinner with my parents.  I had no idea where I wanted to eat so I let C pick.  Naturally, she picked Olive Garden because she wanted noodles.  We stuffed ourselves silly and had zero room for dessert so our waitress brought this out instead.

 

 

Major storms were brewing (or so we thought) that night so C and I spent the remainder of the evening sitting in the hallway.

 

 

This lead into a lesson on tornados and we watched a few videos because C needed to know what we were talking about and why we had to sit in the hall.  Thankfully is wasn't as big of a deal as we had thought.

 

Saturday, Brent and I passed C off to my parents and we hit the road to do some antique shopping.  Actually, we passed C off to my dad because she had her BFF's birthday party that morning and he so graciously took.

 

 

Clearly this was her sad face because her mama wasn't there.

C and her BF Addisyn

 

After the party, they meet up with my mom and hit the park.

 

It's really hard looking at these pictures because you can really see how bad she is missing us.

 

Honestly, its great we can leave her and know that she is having a blast.  Brent and I actually had a pretty fantastic time ourselves.

 

Thanks to my hairdresser, we found the cutest little drugstore that had the BEST old fashion milkshakes!

 

Good way to start our day!

 

We headed to Nashville after that and hit just about every antique store we could find.  Some were complete busts and others we found lots of cools things.

 

Two of our favorite purchases was a whiskey barrel.

 

And the other was this vintage baseball glove.

 

Brent almost passed it up until I convinced him he had to have it.

 

It was the perfect day to be hopping in and out of stores.  I'm not sure if I've ever had a 60 degree weather birthday.  It was nice!

 

We ended the day with dinner at PF Chang's and a relaxing night of not having to entertain a 3 year old.

Fit For A Princess

Yesterday will go down as one of my favorite days with C.  We got together with all of her friends from dance class and went to a Princess Tea Party hosted by a local high school choir.

 

 

To say the girls were in awe is an understatement. 

 

 

Every Disney princess that you could think of was there along with their male companion.

 

The girls danced their little hearts away as each princess sang a song from their movie.

 

 

 

We are so lucky that we have found good friends in our dance class.

 

All the girls are so sweet and have fun with each other.

 

 

 

I joked with a few of the moms that this was C's coming out party.  She is typically super shy and stays close to my side in big crowds but yesterday she was a totally different kid.  She stayed on the dance floor and wasn't too shy about meeting the princesses or talking to other little girls that she didn't know that well.

 

It was so fun watching her reaction to everything and having fun with her friends.  She has already asked to do it all again!

Happy Valentine's Day!

C has been LOVIN' the Valentine season! 

 

 Last year, I started the tradition of C getting a note everyday starting February 1st to the 14th from us.  She loved it last year and has had a bigger time with it this year.

 

 

She checks her mailbox everyday after school to see what the mailman brought.  It is the cutest thing to see her eyes light up!

 

We went the other night to pick out treats for her friends at school.  She had lots of ideas but she finally settled on mini slinkies.  She has lots of fun last night helping me get them ready for school.

 

 

This morning, I had a little special breakfast for the 3 of us.

 

C was so excited about the day and her party at school that she could barely eat!  Did NOT get that from me.  :)

 

Look at her.  You can see the excitement in her eyes.

 

 

Can't wait to hear all about her day this afternoon!

A Little Q&A Session with C

These answers are based on C's almost 4 year old self.

What is your favorite food?  Noodles (aka spaghetti)

What is your favorite color?  Purple

What is your favorite drink?  Juice

What is your favorite snack?  Skittles and Jelly Beans (I can't say this it too accurate because she had a mouthful of Skittles at the time and we had had jelly beans earlier)

Who is your best friend?  Mama (I would normally find this super sweet but she has told me all weekend that she doesn't like me and wants to go live with my parents.)

Who is your best friend at school?  Addyson

What is your favorite thing to do?  Crafts and iPad  (great combo of Brent and I!)

What is your favorite thing to do?  Go to the bookstore and library.

Where is your favorite place to eat?  McDonalds (another shocker because here lately she has been requesting Cracker Barrel.)

What is your favorite thing to do with Daddy?  Play in my tent

What is your favorite thing to do with Mama?  Play

What is your favorite tv show?  SpongeBob

What is your favorite breakfast?  Lucky Charms

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A builder and a mama.

B-O-R-I-N-G is Our Name-O

We are so boring right now.  Between the weather and a cold that I can't shake, there has been a lot of nothing going on at the ole homestead.  I'm so over the cold and ready for spring.

About the only fun we've had is watching C go into complete meltdown mode over taking Band-Aids and stickers off her leg.

This is after I took her Band-Aid off from getting her flu shot at HER request.  For 5 minutes after the Band-Aid came off, she would scream every other breath.  I hated to laugh but I'm inappropriate and it was hilarious.

Fast forward a week, girlfriend entertains herself by sticking 100 TINY stickers to her leg.

this was at the halfway point.

For 15 minutes, she screamed/cried as I tried to get all the stickers off.  She would jerk my hand away and scream "NO" in the same breath as pleading with me to get them off.  She got even madder when I laughed.  Again, I'm inappropriate.  I'm pretty sure she won't be doing this again but I can't guarantee it.

After all that drama, we had family craft time.  Brent was thrilled as you can imagine.  Bless his heart, his creativity level is at a  negative 2 but C wanted him in there so he gave it a try.  This was the outcome.

I made the turtle, Brent gave him a face and put marks on his shell and C named it Clarabell.  Not too shabby and C was impressed.

About the only other thing going on in our house is I'm redoing our bedroom which is requiring lots of DIY since my budget is umm zero.  But I've managed to redo our headboard,

 and paint our side tables.

I have some art projects to work on and I still need to paint but that requires lots of mind tricks to get Brent to agree to help and I just haven't had the energy.  :)

What We've been doing.

 

Well, C turned 12.

 

 

Overnight, C turned into this SUPER independent girl who HAS to do everything herself regardless of what it is.

 

While out shopping with my mom and C, I took this picture: 

 

C wanted to try on some clothes and I was instructed to stand outside the door, that she could handle this.  And handle it she did.  She tried on a few things and modeled each item.  Seriously, where did my 3 year old go?

 

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C has been learning about hibernation at school so we had to make a cave and hibernate like bears.

 

We even had to eat snacks so we could make it through the winter months.  Ha!

 

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Friday, I had to butter C up with some ice cream before I had to break the bad news that she had to get a flu shot.

 

I also took her to the library to sweetin' the deal.

 

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Saturday, we all decked out in our Colt's gear to show our support to B's team.

 

 

Sadly, they lost but that's ok, mama's (and C's) team is still in it for one more week!

 

After the game, I needed a stress reliever so naturally I did some craftin'... 

 

C is obsessed with this pillow.  She want's to sleep with it every night. 

 

A little V-Day shirt

 

Remember these?  I gave new life to this desk and love how it turned out!  It was well worth my hands being stained for 2 days.