Daddy Daughter Date Night

Chick Fillet had the brilliant idea of hosting a Daddy Daughter Date Night. When R.C. saw the advertisement he signed right up.

Princess had a blast. As did R.C.. Chick Fillet actually hired a limousine to bring the guests to Chick Fillet. When you signed up you were given a time for your date. If you wanted the free limo ride you had to be in the Best Buy parking lot 15 minutes before your time. (The Best Buy parking lot was across the street from Chick Fillet. The limo driver took a longer than necessary route to Chick Fillet, but it was still a short ride. We thought it was a really fun idea and nice touch to the evening.)

These pictures were taken by the photographer at the restaurant. I think they are priceless. This is definitely the first of many.

Bridge

Tigers

Tigers is bite. Tigers scratch. Tigers is awesome.

Lions like tigers. Cause them have sharp claws too.

Them do roars. Roar. Roar.

Them rock!

They're like cats cause them do meow, meow.

And them really cool and awesome.

And that's all!

Princess

Girl in Green

Sometimes she's in the mood for my camera... ...so I snap away!

Bridget

Daddy's Girl

There is this little girl I know who adores her daddy.

And there is this daddy I know who adores his little girl.

Bridget

Little Blue Riding Hood

What do you do if you child looks super cute and you want to take her picture, but she isn't in the mood?

You strap her down, of course!

And then you snap away. But she is smart. She might not be able to run... ...but she can hide that beautiful smile. Until you mention desert. Seriously, especially if the strap down happens when you are on your way to dinner. All you have to mention is desert. Well, hello smile!

Bridget

Theta Princess Party

Back in March, Princess was invited to a Princess Party.

How very appropriate.

Kara is a Theta and her house was having a Princess Party. They invited all the lovely little princess' in their lives. Kara invited Princess, of course.

Mom and I dropped them off at the Theta house and we went shopping and to eat. Mom bought me three pairs of jeans for my birthday.

When we returned to the house to pick them up we got to go inside and see everything.

Princess was over the moon. The house was teeming with little princess everywhere! they could go most anywhere in the house they wanted and they did!

Princess' hair was straightened, her nails were painted, and her face was make-upped.

So sweet.

Checking herself out.

She had a great time with K.K.. (my children's name for their Aunt Kara)

And I had a great time with Mom.

Bridget

Sleeping Beauty in Pink

We bought Princess a new comforter and shams set. This is her first comforter and shams set. She has always just used a quilt or blanket. It has worked just fine but since we were getting ourselves a new mattress and giving her our old one we firgured "Why not go all out and buy her some new bedding to go along with her 'new' bed."

But true to form we couldn't wait till she had the new bed to open and use the new bedding.

I took these pics the morning after her first night with the new bedding. My Princess all wrapped up in a sea of pink was too much for me to resist.

Even in sleep she was beckoned by the click, click of the camera.

And though her eyes were just too heavy to open she was still in perfect form for smiling.

Bridget

The Dresser

We found Princess a dresser. It is old and beat up and someone tried to do a green paint and glaze effect.

I love it.

We paid $65 for it.

I have fabulous plans for the top. I'm purchasing the materials this weekend and hope to have it done by the end of next week. I can't wait to show you. I love the lines of this dresser. The simple details. And I am totally leaving the green, glaze, funky treatment.

I am changing the knobs, however. And it's on wheels. Which is going to be very handy once I get done transforming the top. Plus, because it is up off the ground I can stash a couple of baskets under it for Princess' shoes.

Perfection. I'm also transforming the insides. Actually, I've already transformed the insides, but I don't want to show them until everything is done. It was all about having a nice clean drawer for Princess' clothes. I just couldn't put them inside without doing something and I was very ready to get her clothes out the the wire baskets they were in and into a bonafide dresser. So I got right on fixing the insides.

Plus, I moved the wire baskets to the laundry room and am loving the extra storage.

Bridget

The Princess Room Pt. 3

After sleeping in on Sunday I asked Hubs to help with my plan.

I had borrowed The Home Book by House Beautiful from the library. It is fabulous! And in it I found an inspiration room. It is actually the front foyer of the house, but the wallpaper instantly spoke to me. I decided to copy the look, while tweaking it for Princess' room. (it's on page 198, fyi)

First, I measured the wall and found the center. After marking the center at the top and middle trim of the wall I then marked 1 foot marks till I got to the corners. Luckily, the two walls I was painting in Princess' room were 10 ft long so it worked perfectly with no left over wall space or hard math. =)

Then I used some ribbon and a straightedge to draw lines from one mark on top to it's coordinating mark on the bottom. (the mark that was four over from it) and did this till I had a diamond pattern on the wall.

I will say that this is much easier when two people do it together. Thank you, Hubs!
After all my lines were drawn I then used a foam roller cover with a rounded end to stamp pink dots at all the intersections. After they were dry I used a very small artist brush to paint over the lines with brown. It took 1 1/2 hours to do one wall but I love it! And Princess is totally worth it!

I also painted the ceiling pink. It is amazing the effect a painted ceiling has on a room. A real "finisher".

I must say that Princess wasn't real excited about the changes till the pink was put on the walls. She's been sleeping in with her brothers and is really ready for things to be done. However, I couldn't finish it all in a weekend and our new mattress still hadn't arrived yet so I wasn't in a huge hurry.

Bridget

The Princess Room Pt. 2

So after the prep work on Friday, I got up Saturday morning ready to go. I first got the trim painted. It went from red to chocolate brown. Yummy.

After the second coat, I peeled off the tape and tackled the top part of the wall. The golden beige wasn't gonna work so it became 'cashmere white'. Then the lower part of the walls became 'rice paddy'. It is a very yellow green. The pictures bring out more of the yellow, but not much.
I also painted the inside of the closet 'rice paddy'. I plan on hanging curtains for doors but a girl needs a great closet, no?!

We have standing plans with friends every Saturday night so I had to stop here. I didn't mind really because I was crazy tired. But things are still a long way from done....

Bridget

The Princess Room Pt. 1

We bought a new mattress.

Finally.

You see, for the past two years we have been sleeping on a mattress purchased by my MIL at a second hand furniture store. We have a memory foam topper with a feather topper on that, but it's still not great. More often than not, Hubs and I wake up achy.

So, since we are getting a new mattress (and new bed rails for it to sit on) we decided to give our full size bed to Princess. This way, when guests come to visit (mainly my sisters) they can sleep in with Princess and Princess won't have to sleep on the floor or in with Popeye in a twin sized bed.

It's brilliant, really.

I've really been wanting to redecorate Princess' bedroom and decided that moving things around for her 'new' bed would be the perfect time. (Some of you avid B6 readers are thinking "Haven't you already decorated Princess' bedroom?" the answer to that question is: yes I decorated her bedroom, but then we played musical bedrooms and now she is in what used to be her brother's bedroom and Popeye and Bear are in what used to be hers.)

Remember: this used to be a bedroom for boys. Hence the color choices.
First before. I actually remembered to take pictures before I started taking everything apart. =)

I took pics from every corner of the room so you could get a very detailed view of the hideousness that my daughter has been living in.

It is so bad that I have absolutely no motivation for cleaning it up. This was how it was looking most of the time. And, no, I don't let my daughter play with power tools. Those were for me.

Last corner pic. The red leather chair came out of the batcave. When we moved Bobo in there we didn't have room for it so Princess got it. It made finding fabric interesting because her favorite color is pink and so I had to find something with both pink and red in it.

But don't worry! I found something perfect! But you're gonna have to wait for it.

So, Friday night (actually a week ago from last Friday) I got everything off the walls, everything moved into the middle of the room, and the trim taped and prepped for painting. Then I went to bed.

Bridget

4 Years and Texting

It just starts too young these days. She can't even spell yet. But she knows how to text.

Not that we can read it, but she sure can.

It's also one of the special things about Aunt AJ.

Cause Mama and Daddy don't let Princess play with real cell phones.

But Aunt AJ not only lets her play with her phone - she encourages it.

Her iPhone.

Though Aunt AJ is smart and stays close.

Cause now Princess is starting to send texts to not just family, but some of AJ's friends as well.

Let's hope they know what she's saying.

Bridget