Valentines Day Turkey!

Happy Valentines Day! Anadel and I received a surprise visitor in our garden this morning.  Maybe it is a gift from our true love! LOL

Anadel and I have been busy working in the garden and crafting this Valentines Season. We made paper hearts with a 14 day countdown to Valentines and put them on our little Christmas tree, a paper heart wreath made from hearts we cut out from an old novel and a mobile that Anadel loves to swat at when she is eating at the table. We even found a use for our extra framed mirror that I turned it into a gift warp organizer. Made with inexpensive cafe curtain rods and baskets I found at Wal-mart .  Sure beats the $250 dollar gift wrap organizer I have wanted for so long from Pottery barn. I spent $27 dollars to make mine :).

We wish you all a lovely Valentines Day and hope you know how much we love you!

Our Busy Little Mouse

Our front door mouse house I made for Anadel, with a tiny welcome flag banner and door mat.

Our laundry room mouse house. Looks like this little mouse has been doing a bit of laundry today.  Makes Ben giggle each time he goes in the Laundry room.

Our beautiful laundry cabinets Ben put together for me for Christmas. Love doing laundry now and having extra storage/pantry space. 

We are so thrilled that Anadel has enough long locks to put up in pig tails and barrettes. 

Caught my little Anadel mouse eating sugar cookie gingerbread men off of the Christmas tree again. Looks like it is time to decorate the tree with hearts and Valentine cookies for my little mouse to munch! Our first Christmas in our house, we had a real little mouse visitor in our house who helped themselves to two of the cookies on the tree. Thankfully Ben has sealed up all the open holes and fixed the door frames so that the only cookie eating mouse in the house is our Anadel.

Yay We Did It!!!! Yay for Sunday Miracles!

                        (Anadel all dolled up before her cousin Aiden's Baptism this last Saturday.)
At the close of a quiet but busy Sacrament meeting for Anadel yesterday, she yelled out, "YAY... WE DID IT!" It was a Sunday miracle!!! This was the first Sunday in years that Ben and I didn't have to take Anadel out into the hall screaming. Anadel is a Sunbeam now and sings louder than any other child in primary. One of 15 Sunbeams, she is quite the dramatic performer. Each week when church ends, she rushes to the nearest piano and begins playing and singing as loud as she can.

Ben has been asked to teach a little boy in our ward to play the piano. I am sure Anadel's love for the piano will increase as she watches her daddy teach this little boy. Ben tries to play primary songs each night for Anadel. We dance around the room and sing them together which is turning into a fun family bedtime tradition.

Anadel has mastered mommy and daddy's iphones. She can navigate all her kid apps. and movies without help. She calls them her "gimme games."

Anadel focusing on the perfect dive into her little pool. The other thing she loves more than her "gimme games," singing and playing piano, is swimming.

Painted our living room wall

Painted our living room wall yesterday with leaves and branches, then added a vinyl word quote I found at target.

Quote says:

"May our home be filled with laughter, family and friends and the life togetherness brings."

Still trying to decide if I want to paint in little animals ( like small birds or a mouse in the corner by the piano like Mousey Thompson would). What do you think, does it need anything else?

Anadel's New Princess Room

Anadel's new Puppet Theater, Corner General Store and Post Office - Birthday Gift from Grandma Ro Ro. She gives us theatrical puppet shows each night before bed. Her Auntie Laurie gave her a cash register and grocery food w/basket for her birthday and she plays with that non stop in here too. She is really good at scanning the grocery items bar code and swiping the plastic credit card. She yells, "Approved" each time she scans the card like a pro and then asks for the play money from mommy and daddy when done!
Here is her new reading corner and art gallery. This kid can read and draw non-stop!
We took out all the baby furniture and now she has room for a drawing tea party table and much more. She spends hours in her room now, which is so much nicer for her mommy who doesn't have to cart so many toys back from the family room each night. :)
Anadel playing tea party with the monkey and giraffe. Ben and I received them from his siblings for our wedding over 4 years ago. Quite the room for a little princess now!

Catch Up! Happy Holidays!

Once again I am trying to catch up on our blog! Happy Holidays Everyone!!!:) We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and went to Claim Jumper for a no mess dinner. There were 13 of us, minus my brother John and his family.

The rest of the week we spent celebrating Anadel's 3rd Birthday and putting up our Christmas decorations. We re-decorated Anadel's room and cleaned out the baby things (will post pictures soon.) We also re-painted and decorate the bathroom and our hallway (which it no longer a weird peach color and blends better with the other walls that get natural light.) It has been a very productive two weeks. We are Happy with all our inexpensive transformations and have so much to be thankful for!!! Love to you all and Merry Christmas!

Our Bathroom Transformation!

Picture Taken Just Before We Move In To Our House. Ben Had To Add Toilet, Fixtures and New Vinyl Flooring.
Painted Our Walls Chocolate Brown. Anadel licked Her Lips As We Painted and Said,"Yummm Chocolate." We are very happy with the cozy yummy color! :)