Princess Party

For Keira's 3rd Birthday she wanted a Princess Party. When I asked her who she wanted to come to her party she said "Anna". I said "who else", she said "ummmm, Anna, just Anna" so we had a party for 2!

I had seen these adorable invitations on another blog one time a few years ago and couldn't wait to do the same for my daughter (I think I saw the invitation BEFORE I was even prego with a girl - thank goodness I had a girl!!!).

Keira and her cousin Anna are quite the pair. They L-O-V-E everything princessy and everything pretty, pink, purple, girly, and frilly. I wanted to do something so girly for them they would be in Heaven.

So the Tuesday after Keira's birthday when Jason was at school we had a teaparty, princess outfit wearing, Barbie playing, princess movie watching, crafting PARTY!

Here are some pictures from the day!

I'm not really sure what my daughter is doing here!

They each got princess bags with crowns, wands and princessey accessories.

Believe it or not they EACH have their own Cinderella Princess Dress and shoes!

We did a painting craft that the girls did a fabulous job on! It's a glitter globe, which turned out super cute!

Keira's finished product!

Burn,Baby Burn!

With "gutting" your entire house and building anaddition comes a lot of wood and stuff to be "recycled" call us RED NECK...but when the opportunity to burn the old addition presented itself...it became a family affair!

There is something so cool (yet quite scary) about watching an old part of your home raise up in smoke!

I have to also blog that Jason (Mr. Fire SAFETY aka: PARANOID CHILD) is seriously scared to death about fire and it "getting out of hand"...he was NOT impressed with us...he didn't even want to watch it (but I made him).

Thanks to "Fire Safety Month" at school no candle shall be lit on his watch!

Home Sweet Home

I said I wasn't going to show any pictures of our house until it was done...well for FUN I decided that a few in-between-ers needed to be posted...so, here's a quick tour of our lovely home...at this moment it still looks like this (we haven't really been living here either this week just so you know...for obvious reasons).

The tour begins as you enter in through our new front door into our lovely back hall (all newly built this fall) this houses lockers for each of us to store our coats/boots/etc. and our washer/dryer in the back, behind a closed door.



Then a short stroll through the hallway which has the antique bench from my Grandparents as well as canvases of various pictures I have taken, turn left into the main bath or right into the kitchen.

(no picture of this beauty - sorry)

Then it brings me to our kitchen - many a wondrous meal and family dinner is had in this homey place...each and every one of our memories captured in this grand kitchen and dinning room.



Our living room houses our cozy couches and chairs that sit in front of the fire place perfect for curling up with a good book.



My parents master bedroom has wall to wall built-in Ikea wardrobes which are the cats meow...as you can only imagine!



Now head up our 100 year old staircase for a look at our country style bathroom!



Ta-Da! Here she be...isn't it grand. on the right is our new claw-foot bathtub, on the left is the new vanity with double sinks and double mirrors - perfect for getting ready.



So there you have it folks - our Extreme Makeover - Lovely isn't it!

I realize the sarcasm may have been sliced on pretty thick - but ONE DAY...it will have all those things I spoke of...I should know, they are all sitting in the shop waiting for the installation day!

Right now, we had to take out all the old lathe and plaster, old wiring, old plumbing and pretty much gutt the main floor to just frames, then we're right now in the middle of doing electrical and plumbing, when that is done we'll re-insulate, drywall, and the whole works.

Our kitchen is in the designing stage at Home Hardware and I'm so excited about it.

I can't wait for the end result! Good luck to us! May all of my readers enjoy a dinner in their dust-free kitchens and finish the day off with a bath/shower complete with faucets just for me :)

Neglect

This picture pretty much sum up my life right now...yes, yes it does.

Daniel and I were getting ready to run out the door the other day and I was grabbing something from off the top of the tv and saw this and started laughing hysterically.

For more than the following reasons:

a) Look how dirty the TV is
b) We watch it EVERY day...how long have those handprints been there and I not notice

c) How much time is my child sitting in front of this box?

d) What was he/she doing?

e) need I go on?

I have to admit life is very busy these days, what with renovating, school, work, photoshoots, editing, babysitting neices/nephews, and more...but I did feel a little guilt as well...I mean what kind of a woman would I be without guilt??? :)

First I thought, I've gotta get this house whipped into shape...but you'll see in my next blog post that that is humanly impossible...so then I that brought me to my next feeling...what is really more important...the dust or my kids. So I'm taking a day off everything else today and playing wtih my kids.