When they arrest me, this is my insanity defense....

6 Brand New Bottles of Finger Paint


What a "pretty" mess. It's even on the wood of the table. Of the $1200 dining room table.

The culprit tried to use a towel to clean up.

Obviously, the towel didn't work.


The bottles are empty....

Meet the culprit, trying to look innocent.

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Yeah, she's nothing if not thorough.

Didn't she do a fabulous job on her arms and legs?

I bet that those shirt stains come right out ..... yeah.

It splattered on the walls.


Oh yay ... It's on my carpet too.


Yup ... on the carpet and walls.


This would be a beautiful handprint, had it been on CONSTRUCTION PAPER.


Yeah, she's nothing if not thorough.





This does not include the dining room chair, couch, wool coat, or front door.


All I wanted was 10 minutes to finish blow-drying my hair while she watched tv. This is what it got me.

My future kitchen

The following are sitting in my Target cart under "Save for Later". I will have them before Chris is home from deployment. :)

Dishes:



Apron/Potholders:





Curtain:





Cast-iron Utensil Holder:


Cast-iron Cookbook Holder:

Cast-iron Trivet Set:

Cast-iron Paper Towel Holder:



Cast-iron Tealight:





Dining Room Chairs Slipcovers:


Stone Coasters:






I chose brown for the chairs to help tie them to the rest of my brown furniture. And I have red accents all over the bottom floor of my house, so I thought that the red coasters would tie in nicely with that.

Let's Catch Up -- Giant picture post

On pictures! My flash had an unfortunate accident in October and since then I've had no chance to take pictures. Thankfully Christmas money went to replacing it (with an even better model!) and I had a chance to practice on my kiddos and take a few pictures at my brother's wedding. For now I'm primarily posting my favorite pictures of the kids, but I do plan on sharing some favorites from the wedding preps at a later date.

Now ... on to the pictures!

She's become gigantic!

Even a beauty queen has to start somewhere: