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Yesterday while I was at walmart I decided to get my haircut. I was getting quite annoyed at my bangs.. they were long and whispy, my ears were covered & it was time for a shape up. I had the girl to cut out my ears and cut my bangs off.. I love it!

City of Cars by Owen Sensenig

Owen choose to do the schools science fair this year... He was able to choose between a project or a collection. He picked the collection and of course he done Cars.. surprise. I was just that .. surprised when we counted and found out that he has 102! no wonder why i felt like i was seeing them everywhere!
I told Owen that next year he wont be allowed to do this because I felt like I was pulling his teeth on this project.. i had to basically give him the answer on how to do this thing in a question form and hope that he answered correctly! I felt like I was doing most of the work and I didn't want his project to be the one that everyone knew was done by the parent and not the student.. Nope that was Owen.. it was the brothers that he was sandwiched between. I wish i would have taken a picture of their displays.. Amazingly the two looked almost identical but one was on dinosaurs and the other just animals!
anyway, I talked to a mother from Owen's class and found that she had the same problem with her daughter( the pulling teeth part. it was nice to know that I wasn't the only parent going through that!
Owen received a 5$ gift card to DQ and a ribbon of participation!

Callie's revamped room

So after Callie started ripping wallpaper off Jason & I talked about what we wanted to do about it. We first wanted to put bead board on it but the cost wasn't feasible for us.. around $120. So we thought we would just paint it.. but what color? We both said brown at the same time! It cost us around $40.00 to revamp the whole room.. sure beats $120. The paper ripped off nicely and the sticky backing wasn't too difficult either.. a little bit of water and it came right off. I started working on her room last Monday and it was finished completely this Monday... that included a new bow board,redoing her letters, and her lamp shade.
The plaque above her bed reads:: the princess sleeps here

I made her beautiful curtains.. i think they pull the whole room together

her new bow board .. its brown with pink ribbon.. kinda bland but still looks nice!

Her name redone

the veiw from the hallway!

Oh no she didn't!!

Since we moved Callie into her big girl bed she now enjoys being in her room to play more.. which normally would be a good thing, right?? WRONG!! She has discovered the wallpaper and is now tearing it off! She started doing this when she was still in her crib so i just pulled the crib away from the wall during nap & bedtime. But now she has free roam to do as her Lil heart desires!! Doesn't' she know it is going to affect the overall PRINCESS look of her room by tearing off that beautiful paper? Does she even care?? I doubt it!!!!!!
It started off in one spot and then 2.. then 3 .. i think we are now up to 5 different spots. That Lil stinker!

Big Girl Bed

Yesterday, Jason and I decided to put Callie in her big girl bed! She was tickled to have so much bed! She was very entertaining to watch once we got the bed up and put together! She would climb up on it and bounce around... too cute!! I asked her if she likes her new big girl bed and she said uh huh !! I had bought the head & foot board at a yard sale this past summer for $8.00! It was very nasty but with some purple power and the pressure washer it came clean. We still need to paint it but that will have to wait until spring. Jason will use the Wagner and the pale pink that we used in her room.. it is almost white.. just a hint of pink! I found her bedding at Target... the comforter was on clearance for $20.00 and the sheets were $15.00 and they go with her room perfectly!
She went to bed perfectly in it. I was afraid of how she would do.. she was so excited that she barely tolerated letting me put her in jammies. Nap time was a bit different. I knew she was tired but she kept climbing out of her bed and playing. I kept with it and would go in there and tell her it's nap time, not play time. Put her back in her bed and tell her to have a good nap! I guess I done this about 12 times or so.. I waited by her door with it just barely open, enough for me to peek in.. It went fairly well I thought... I hope it gets a bit better each time!

Here is Callie sitting on "her" chair by her new bed!


She got this cute lil vanity for Christmas and LOVES IT!! She is always playing with it!



Callie, Carter, Sadie(the dog) & Lacey(her cousin)


This is the cute lil kitchen that Callie got from "Santa"