Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Girls Day Out

Saturday, while Jarrett was at the supercross race in Indy, the girls & I made a day of it at the local zoo. They may have been over-dressed compared to the other zoo guests, but what can I say, I have fancy girls.  

Rachel was a little scared having to do the carousel by herself, so Olivia held her hand. It was so adorable.




Oh yea, there were also some animals at the zoo.





Saturday, March 17, 2012

let's spring it up in this joint

Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas -- all are decorated for in great amounts in my house. Love it! But past January, the snowmen & general wintry decor come down. I feel it leaves the house drab until September when I break out the harvesty fall stuff.

I decided I need to decorate for Spring. What is Springy? Tulips, bunny rabbits, little blue birds, lilacs & anything pastel. Well, that's what I think is springy.

I'm on a mission. And I'm on a budget. Who isn't? $4.09 for a gallon of gas, you feel me?!

So I hit up my favorite budget friendly store -- The Dollar Tree. I also hit up Pier One, not so much on the budget friendly side. But it did give me some good ideas. (and left me envious of the people with hands full of crap.)

Anywho, at the Dollar Tree I found these ugly & quite frankly frightening looking bunny figurines. I bought 2 super ugly albino ones. Red eyes aren't a good look for anyone.






And this cute little brown one.





I painted the albino ones cream. They turned out cute even though they don't have eyes anymore. And they found a home on my hutch.






I also found some ugly little birdies. They were quite sad looking.










They needed spruced up too. I'm seeing this bright blue & bright spring green all over. And by all over I mean at the little craft store in town. Haha. In fact, I almost replicated the $10 little blue birdie they had for sale.










And my new springy mantle is done. My wreath has seen better days. The berries used to be red. I painted them the same blue.





Well, done for now. I'm still thinking I need some flowers. So far, it's springy for the low budget price of $9 bunnies & birdies and 3 $.97 craft paints. Not too shabby.


Thursday, March 15, 2012

This girl named Olivia

This girl is gorgeous.


This girl is sassy. This girl makes me laugh. This girl has my whole heart. This girl rocked a side ponytail today at school. This girl loves the dress her Grandma got her. This girl also loves the go-go boots her Grandma got her. This girl is going to be 8 three short months. This girl lost her 7th tooth Sunday night (only the second one she has pulled entirely on her own).


This girl is Olivia & we love her so much.

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