Decision Made

And the winner is..

FINALLY made the decision last night and bought this one..which has always kind of been my favorite.   It does have some red in the quilt which I wanted SOME red in her room.  I actually saw this on a bed in pottery barn kids last night and it is even cuter in person and I knew it was meant to be:) Oh and I did not get the canopy part because she does not have a canopy bed.  Now off to find lots of other cute stuff to put in her room..hopefully those decisions won't take me months like this did!

PRESIDENTS DAY

PRESIDENTS DAY = NO SCHOOL = MESSY HOUSE = LOTS OF RANDOM PICTURES...

{here are just a few:)}

Updates

Hi blog friends...

Life has been a little busy lately..and when I'm kinda busy I tend to forget about my poor little blog..
And I missed my BlogAnniversary:(  It was Feb 13th!

In other news:

- Bailey is still not sleeping at night.  Today I am not making her take a nap and hoping that she will be SO tired that she will have to go to bed at 7:30/8ish.  Her naps are not an easy thing for ME to give up.  I love having an hour or more to get things done around the house..but if her not having a nap = going to sleep without screaming and crying at night we all will be a lot happier.  If it doesn't work we still have that appointment with the sleep specialist on the 22nd...

-Bailey had her first Valentines party where she handed out Valentines with all of her little friends.  It was so fun and cute..Here are some pics from that..(check out her cute barrette that Adriane made)

Handing out her Dora Valentines

About to eat lots of unhealthy snacks

-Football started 3 weeks ago..on a Sunday..after a day of celebrating my 30th birthday at the wineries with my girlfriends.  So needless to say I was TIRED but it was a great day.  We are so busy and only getting busier. YAY!

-For those of you who live in St Louis and have not signed up for this yet check it out!!  http://www.causeforthepaws.org/Cause_for_the_Paws/Welcome.html ..head on over and sign up for the walk or donate money for a great cause!!

-I chopped my hair off..and even though the cut is REALLY cute and I have the best hair stylist in the world..I still wonder "WHAT was I thinking!!!".. NOTE TO SELF:  Short hair is not cute on you. Ever. 

Thats all for now..hope everyone is having a great week!

Football, No Sleep, and the big 3-0.

So my blog has been VERY neglected lately.  As many of you know our football season is quickly approaching and since I am the scheduler/office manager/phone answerer extrordinaire life has been a little hectic lately.  On top of all of that I have a toddler who has decided that sleep is just not her thing.  Some nights she is up until 10 other nights until 1:30am because she has to go potty, needs me to talk to her, needs medicine, needs to read a book or is just plain screaming and crying and throwing every distraction in the book at me.  It has really gotten out of hand.  I have made an appointment at the sleep center at the hospital by our house so MAYBE they can help us with our issue.  Unfortunately for me and my little one they can't get us in until Feb 22nd:(.  And I am PRAYING that our insurance covers this..hmmm maybe I should call now..
Anyways, on the positive side I had a fun night last weekend:) My bday (the big 3-0) is this weekend and since my husband will be busy with football all weekend he took me out last Saturday.   My mom watched Bailey (and Fletch) because Matt booked us a room at the Westin.. so we packed them up in the car and off we went!

We ate dinner and then did a little gambling..which we never do but its fun every once in a while...well its fun if you win and we didn't so we decided to call it a night!  Our wedding reception was at the Westin (6 years ago - wow!) so we love to stay there!  It was supposed to be a surprise but Matt left the confirmation up on the computer so I kind of saw it one day..ooops:(

Oh and for my bday my mom let me go shopping with her credit card!!!!!!!!!!!  Woo hoo!  Haven't done that since high school?  And that was long long ago friends...  I remember that they would call my mom from the store and/or my mom would give me a note that said it was ok to use her card...thank goodness for pin numbers now:)  And thanks Mom!!  I needed that retail therapy to help me with my lack of sleep:) 

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

Winter

Shoveling snow in 11 degree weather.  I had to do that a couple of days ago and all I have to say is I can't wait another second for Spring!  Well I guess I have to wait I don't have a choice.  But I thought I would go on record saying that WINTER IS MY LEAST FAVORITE SEASON.  Hmmm, I take that back..I like it up until Christmas is over and then I am done with it!!

Last Wednesday it snowed 5''.  Bailey woke up and immediately wanted to go outside and build a snowman.  I thought that sounded like a good idea.  What could be more fun than building a snowman with my sweet little girl, my husband, and my puppy dog.  So after 30 minutes of finding our snow gear and getting it all put on we all went outside.  First, Matt couldn't find his gloves so couldnt help with snow man {actually snow woman, we were totally ready to deck her out with tiara and all}.  Second, snow was too fluffy which made it impossible for me to make our snow lady.  Third, 2 year old screaming because it was too stinkin cold and her gloves kept coming off.  SO, we were outside for seriously 10 minutes.  30 minutes of getting ready to be outside for 10 minutes.  But we did get some get some fun pictures of our snow puppy:

Pretty fast for an 8 year old huh?  And he does have back legs..I just realized this pic makes him look like a 2 legged dog:)

He LOVES the snow.  But even after running around for a minute he was begging to go inside.

Someone also got upset because her Dora bike wouldn't go anywhere.  I tried to tell her.

Oh and one more reason to dislike winter.  My car looks like this:

So now for a few reasons Winter isn't so bad. Starbucks tastes better in the Winter.  I love skinny vanilla lattes from Starbucks and in the winter I really love them because they make you feel just a little warmer.  But now thanks to my mom I don't even need to leave my house..I can make one a home:)

With this guy I can make lattes, cappucino, tea, and coffee.  I LOVE IT!!!!!!  If you love chai tea lattes this machine can make a better chai tea latte than starbucks(in my opinion), not kidding.  Thanks to this machine I have definitely cut back on drinking Diet Coke but it has been replaced with coffee and lattes:)

Another "new" thing I love about Winter is I get to wear this:

A present from my husband..not just any NorthFace fleece but I think its called the "Osito"??  It is the softest fleece I have ever owned inside and out and I am living in it for the rest of the winter.

One more reason I love the winter:

More time just hanging out inside and playing school, grocery store, restaurant or whatever else pretend game she can come up with:)

Hope everyone is staying warm and enjoying the New Year!

My New Years Resolution

Drink less of this:

and more of this:

At least 6 glasses a day.  I know they say 8 a day but I am just shooting for 6.  I could seriously go a week without drinking water..isn't that awful!? I love coffee, tea, and diet soda..

So I'm going to try to kick the new year off being a little healthier.

Wish me luck at the movies today...I'm really going to MISS my big diet coke fountain soda.

Bailey's Bed

As many of you know, last week we took on potty training and for the most part we were successful:)  We have a few accidents here and there but thats ok..

Our next step is the big girl bed which I have been putting off.  I have been putting it off because I can't decide what to do with Bailey's room.  We purchased the bed MONTHS ago..

First thought, maybe I was crazy buying a black bed for a 2 year old little girls room?  I love it but if you look at pictures in any catalog everyone always has white furniture for little girls.  I just loved the bed and I thought it would be different so hopefully when it goes in her room I will still love it.  I also love the bedding in the picture above (red and white) but try finding red and white bedding anywhere for little girls!!  Its impossible!!!  Unless you make it yourself you can't find it.  Wait I take that back I did find one set that I loved but did not love the over $500 price tag..

So here are my choices..

Choice #1.(Pottery Barn Kids) Everything except the canopy and remember going on a black bed not white..

Choice #2. (Pottery Barn Kids)

What do you think??  I can't decide, I need help!