A Nudist & a Bounty Hunter

I don't like January-not at all. It's so......boring and uneventful, but this January(so far) has brought some fun/good news to the White House.

Allie was accepted into Michael Ballam's workshop for the spring. BIG STUFF....and so exciting. It also means I will be driving her to USU at least once a week, but I am beyond sure that it will be worth it. She had to apply-with a little resume of all her stage experience she has had and apparently they liked what they saw and heard!

Olivia is potty trained!!!! Well.......I'd say she is about 90% potty trained. The other 10% is because she has decided she likes to not wear her pants, OR underwear.

You know, dinner is just a whole new experience while dining with a naked two year old, but I wasn't going to push the matter because, one: she isn't having accidents and two: she isn't wearing a diaper. One thing at a time.....I will deal with her inner nudist later. ;)

This next one is something I admit to with only a bit of shame.....I'm SO addicted to the tv show, The Bounty Hunter. I can't even tell you how it started. I think it came on after one of my other shows I like and now I can't stop watching, Duane "DOG" Chapman-The Bounty Hunter. Now listen: it is one of those shows that bleepity-bleep-bleeps the entire show. Not for kids. Nor for stick-up-your-butt type people.......but IT IS SO FOR ME! Love it! I won't apologize for it, for it speaks to my inner bounty hunter. (I may have ordered his book on my Kindle. Just maybe...haha!) Honestly though-I love the fact that DOG was once a criminal himself and turned it around years ago. He now hunts down the bad guys(which usually has me racing with adrenaline) and then when they are apprehended(like my new lingo?:) he pep talks them. I cry almost every time. His wife is so trashy and I like her. Her boobs are HUMONGOUS, her hair is bleached within an inch of it's life and I totally dig her. She gets the most bleeps. HA! Anyway.....check it out-it's on A&E, but if you no likey.....don't tell me. I may think you have a stick in your rear. :)

New Years Resolution: Drink 64oz. of water a day. If you know me....you know this is a BIG goal. I usually got my water from the water inside a Mt. Dew or Diet Pepsi. Not anymore, no sirree.......64oz+ of water a day!!!.....and I haven't missed a day since New Years. It's a LOT of water. I carry this thing around like a grown-up sippy cup.

So basically here is what we got: January has me day-dreaming of bounty hunting- spending most of the day in the bathroom(either with Olivia, or myself-64oz. of water creates a lot of pee) and chasing around a nudist. Awesome. Bring it 2012!

In Her Room

Both of my girl's rooms are painted pink. The exact same shade is in both rooms-"Ballet Slipper" to be exact. I painted with that color(Here) just weeks before Olivia joined our family. I was SO excited to see that color go on the wall! Then, when the painter came and painted the basement, he asked me twice if I was sure I wanted that color in Allie's bedroom. He said "It's a lot of pink." To which I replied,"That's the whole idea." Ha. I love that color of pink!
Anyway, today I was cleaning the downstairs and when I was done and just sat and looked around Allie's room for a minute. Little girl growing up. That's all I could think. Inside her room you can see remnants from her past; Disney princess stuff, books, pictures.....and then you can see the more grown up paraphernalia emerging; the guitar, big chapter books, perfume, earrings. It made me smile....and it made me sad.
Then I thought about my own room when I was in fourth grade. I can remember some of it: Mauve carpet(eeww...), canopy bed, Mary Lou Retton poster, my white wire shelves, talking mother goose(yes, it was a real toy) a homemade pound puppy from my grandma....but I wish I had pictures of my room. That would be fun to look at now! So I decided that I would take pictures of each of my kid's rooms so that when they are older they can look at them and laugh their heads off. ;)
Up first-Allie's room.


One of my favorite parts of Allie's room is that her furniture belonged to her great-grandmother. Grammy Mel. I LOVE this furniture. When I would go and stay at my grandma's, I would sleep in this same bed. It used to be brown-but a couple of coats of white paint and it looked like new. I put her in this bed when she was three and she looked SO tiny the first night she slept in it!


We(and by we I mean Paul) just recently painted this and moved it into her room. HOW CUTE IS THAT?! It has sat in the unfinished part of our basement for years and we(Paul) finally got tired of it sitting there and spray painted it for me and put on new drawer pulls. It looks even cuter in person-but again, it came from my grandma and matches the bed. Can you even imagine how many times she will sing into that mirror?- ;)
Notice the stack of Princess books? She(and by she, I mean me)can't bear to get rid of them. She read them so much when she was little that the bindings are falling apart. The very bottom pink book is a collection of Disney Princess stories and it was the first book I ever bought Allie. I was almost six months pregnant with her when I found it at Target-I bought it, took it home and left it out so that each time I passed by it I could think about reading stories with my baby girl.....and boy did we read them!
Then look above the princess books-Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Books filled with stories about a boy and farts, wierd moles and other strange bodily functions. The antithesis of a princess story......and Allie reads them and laughs her head off. haha...

The bottom of her Disney Princess lamp. It's a lamp and a nightlight-their dresses glow for the nightlight part. Again, we(me)can't bear to hand it off to Olivia. Allie LOVES to write stories. I find notebooks and pieces of paper everywhere with stories of all kinds. This one pictured was about her and Easton. I kind of melted when I saw it-and hopefully Easton won't mind that they are holding hands inside a heart. HAHA...
I need to do Easton's room which should prove to be interesting. Today while making his bed I found a NASA flight patch, seashell and a screw. ???

Also, I re-did me and Paul's bedroom and bathroom right after Christmas and as soon as I get my roman shade up-I will post pictures!

*Author's note: This post is random, sappy and just a little wierd. Totally aware of that and you will just have to deal with it. Paul's asleep and is kind of tired of me talking about how time is going too fast. ;)