Rooms!

The girl's rooms are coming together. While they stayed with their grandparents for a couple of days, I was able to move furniture back in and complete a couple of projects for their rooms. I still want to find a desk for Avery, paint her bookshelf, and figure out what to put on her accent wall. Maitland's room won't be complete until she gets a big girl bed and I figure out her room arrangement and bedding. I also want to find a monogram to go on her wall (her old one was ruined in our move) and complete a couple of pinterest projects.  The main accomplishment is that we finally got them both painted...we put that off for so long but I'm glad we got it done! I don't have any 'before' pictures, but imagine blue walls in Avery's room and dull grey in Maitland's room.

         I could never find a window treatment I really liked so I decided to make one! I found this simple tutorial for a window cornice on pinterest. If you look closely you can see where I struggled getting the fabric around the edges, but overall I think it turned out nice...and cheap! I couldn't decide on fabric so I bought 2 different colors. Now that it's up, I keep leaning towards the other color I bought :( It would be simple to change it out though.  I could never be an interior designer...I change my mind too much!

       The lighting in these pictures makes the walls look kind of yellow, but they are really more of a cream/beige.

             That random blue chair in the corner goes to the girl's play table we keep in the living room. Avery always drags one chair from it into her room when she plays teacher. After I took this picture I realized it looked like a little timeout corner, ha!

                    I took leftover paint samples and painted the frame below in Mait's room. It was white so adding color made a big difference!

                              I found this end table for $3 at a flea market. Very patriotic, huh? I primed and   painted it green. It's beside Avery's bed in the first picture.

Fun times!

I can't believe June is over! I hope July goes a little slower. I didn't realize how busy we have been, but here we are, on the 4th of July!

• The girls and I headed to MV to visit for a few days of fun, shopping and visiting family. 
• We started working on the girls rooms. New paint, re-doing some furniture. And before long, Maitland will have a big girl bed! 
• Avery took swim lessons from Ms. Kat. She's doing great, but sometimes when I'm in the pool watching both girls, I feel safer when she still has floaties on.
• We are adding more PINK to the family! My brother and his wife found out they are having a girl!
• I went to visit a dear friend ( since 2nd grade!), Amanda. I spent the night and we stayed up talking and laughing just like the old days! She and Zack are about to start a new adventure in Denton, where she will be working at UNT. I hope we don't wait too long in between visits again!
• On my way back home, a window panel flew out of the truck in front of me. It shattered glass everywhere and even though I swerved out  of the way, somehow a piece shot up under my durango and tore the radiator. Luckily I wasn't too far from Lufkin. Shaun came to the rescue and got the car back home. We had it in the shop for a few days and it's all fixed up now. 
• We had VBS at our church. The girls loved it!
• Shaun's cousin was getting married in Austin last weekend, so his family decided to make a mini-vacation out of it. We stayed at a condo in nearby New Braunfels a few days. Avery and Mait were the flower girls for Kathryn, and it was a beautiful wedding!
• Lisa, our wonderful children's minister at church, hosted a splash party at her house. Maitland went up and down the huge inflatable water slide with no fear. The girls played and swam so hard that when we had lunch they scarfed their food down so fast and were begging for seconds! After a second round of sliding and swimming we headed home for after-swim naps (the best kind!)
• We are about to head to Arkansas for a weekend cabin stay with my parents, brother and sis-in-law. Looking forward to another fun weekend. :)

                                                                swim lessons!

                                                            getting ready to paint

                                                  one of my favorite MV spots..the library!

                                                              the donut queen

                                                      this happened in Rockwall :)

                                           Avery helped me make strawberry shortcakes

                              I found these sandals on clearance at Target. I thought they were fun!

                                                      ready for vacation bible school

                                                     ready to swim in New Braunfels

Before I knew it, Avery went up to the bar at the reception and ordered a sprite.. It is a treat to have soda, so she was quite excited to have her own can.

          Shaun and I headed out one night and walked around Gruene. Such a neat, old town!

                                                 Maity insisted on wearing her towel like me.

                                     Shaun had no shame wearing a pink bag...but not for long!

                                                   fun with friends at Ms. Lisa's!

                                                           Happy Independence Day!