A room fit for a princess.....

Gramas stool before

And after ...

Well, she made it...... drum roll please...... 9 days and counting. Reese Addison has been sleeping in her room for 9 days, and gets excited about it every night that she will be adding another tally to her list by morning. Sometimes I think that it's the parents that worry about it and have the hardest time. maybe she has been ready to "sleep" on her own, and we just haven't been pushing the issue. She was a breastfed baby and it was just WAY to easy to leave her there snuggled up to me for convenience sake! Daddy on the other hand did not have such fond memories of his beautiful baby girl snuggling with him, no he however had knees in the back, pushing him until he almost fell to the ground. A mighty little thing she is. So our "idea" was to make this switch a very big deal for her, and since decorating is practically my middle name, off to shopping mode went my brain. Rileigh is turning 13 this July, and she has been asking for a new "big girl bed" lol and so the idea was to give Reese Rileigh's bedroom set, and buy Ri a new one sometime soon?? Now to get dad on board with my master plan, he usually sees me pulling out the Pottery Barn magazines and runs the other way... lol. No seriously, I think he just tunes me out after a few moments into the convo with a blah blah blah, and "how much will this cost me?" When looking at the pictures I must add that the little stool came from my moms house, one that I had totally forgot about until my cousin pulled it out one day when Reese was there playing at her house. She thought it would be perfect in her room, thanks Tammy!!

So, the plan worked Reese got Rileigh's bedroom set, 4 freshly painted walls of Deep Carnation, and Posy Pink. New linens, curtains, and other cute decor. Not completely finished but close enough!!

And by the way RIleigh's bedroom set was delivered today, and her wall color is awesome!!! Not to tease you, but it is totally not ready to be seen yet, lots of decor to still go up!!!

A volleyball weekend.......

Last Saturday morning we left bright and early to drive to Rileigh's volleyball tourney in Indy. First, we had to drop off the other 3 kids to Scott's moms (well we meet her at a Pilot station on the HWY) lol its actually 1/2 way between her house in Ft.Wayne and ours. Reese was super excited to go to Nana's that she pretty much told anyone that would listen!! The boys were happy to just not be going to yet another volleyball game. SO with that said, by 9:30 we were the proud parents of just ONE 12 year old girl. Ahhhh.... Ok back to reality. Funny thing is, we didn't even have our bundle of joy with us, she decided to ride down with another team ate! We made in to Indy in awesome time, and met up with Ri and some of the other girls and moms for some lunch before the shindig began. We played that weekend at Sportzone, and let me tell you it was an awesome place for all things sports. Except for the seating arrangement, but you know we always find something to complain about. The first game we got beat, not a good start, but our girls were determined NOT to go home losers! So during the second game they proved to be great little volleyball players, and spanked Team Indiana!! Woot Woot. Ok, yes we get a bit excited for our girls, they practice way too hard to not be showered by our love when they win. Last game of the day we played Munciana, and WON!! So that tool us to leaving at 8:00 to check into our hotel, and find some food. The girls however decided to take a dip in the pool, before having some pizza. That led us up to our room, and quickly falling fast asleep, just to get up and put in another full day back at the court. (Funny how I'm telling this story like I'm the one playing lol)

Sunday comes we decide to get hotel breakfast which was very good, shower and hit the mall, I mean c'mon we had like 2 hours of down time. lol. Sundays game were awesome we played our first games against another Muncie team, and beat them! Thank god because their parents were very arrogant, spewing that "their"girls were 3-0 yesterday, blah blah blah, our girls ricked that court, and the parent, well sad they were. Ohh that sounds mean of me. sorry.

So that led us into the GOLD bracket, where we won the first match, lost the second and lost the tie breaker by 3 points!! Sad for us. But happy that they were a level above our girls and we were the only team to take them to 3 games!!! That says alot about how our girls played!!

Ok gotta get ready for work, ot the preK kids are gonna think, its wet hair day, and be oh so mad at their mamas for not sending them there like Miss Kim showed up!! LOL

Here a few pic, not good ones by any means terrible lighting, bit blurry but better bad than not at all!!!

Aidyn is cooking dinner..

So it's a normal Friday night in the Yettaw household, Rileigh has left us for her other family, The Bogers, Ashden where else but sitting 2ft away from the tv screen in his room playing Black Ops with the surround sound in full force, Reese huh well ...she has been playing Easter egg hunt all evening (Now that's a whopping good time), and Aidyn and I started his board for his science fair project (mind you a project he does not have to do, he simply said "I'm doing this for practice for next year when it counts, that way I won't be so nervous"... insert: melted heart.

But our tummies were getting hungry so there we were left to decide between popcorn chicken, chicken pot pies or..... pizza??

My little Aidyn, bless his heart, LOVES to cook. Often you can find him perched on top of the counter watching, learning, and helping as Dad is cooking. (If you didn't know by now, you should know that Momma doesn't cook!) So giving Aidyn the go ahead to choose what he wanted he decided on PANCAKES!! We added a side of bacon, and it was perfect. We are an easy bunch to please around here. The kids know that if Dad ain't cooking..don't expect too much! By the way I did get suckered into playing 2 games of Easter Egg Hunt, do we know how to have fun on a Friday night or what???

And the snow goes on....

SO yep it came, the big bad snowstorm of 2011!! And actually I wasn't all that impressed. I mean yes I do realize we got a ton of snow but I was preparing for alot more than what we got. Maybe it was all the hype of it all, but nonetheless it did come and go leaving me with a a sore back from shoveling! What a great year for us to be lazy (honestly) and NOT fix the snow blower. Well, the other reason we didn't bring it home this year was because there is just no room for it in our garage!! If you have ever seen our garage with the door open you would chuckle. My Yukon fits about nose to tail, and Scott's new truck actually has about 1/4 inch room from hitting the top of the door jam as he drives it in!! Any who I started shoveling today with help from Aidyn (who actually is getting pretty good at slinging the white around I might add) and after about 6 minutes Reese sniffed us out and here she came. All bundled up and ready to help, but when I explained to her we didn't have any more shovels she insisted that she could just move it with her hands.... Mind you the snow was up to my knees, SO that didn't work and she took my un-hired help with her to the play set. I yelled for Ash to come out, sometimes I think I'm better without help, and in between trying to shoot hoops now and again he managed to shovel some too. Rileigh on the other hand replied with a "no thanks" when asked to come help. Huh, I too should of tried that one. The neighbor across the way did ask if I wanted to "USE" his snow blower. I nicely replied "oh no thanks that's ok". Inside my head I was really saying "seriously, you can't just walk over here and do it for me??" HAHA. IF you know me then you know that using a snow blower isn't too far fetched for me, but that is one piece of equipment that I have honestly never used by myself.
Anyhow, here is sit at the end of our Blizzard of a day, blogging while listening to my friends blog song list which has a song from our "Chocolate Women's Retreat that I have lostened to over and over and over, with my feet propped on the coffee table, lap warm from the laptop, and my bestest doggie daughter "Ellie" at me side.
Oh , that reminds me, I found a new baby (you should know that I am having the baby itch, but not for a human baby, but another Yorkie baby) and I actually even went to the breeders house thinking my husband would surely know I was that serious about getting another dog, but it did NOT work! So nothing left to do but leave subtle hints here and there.... My birthday is coming in a couple weeks so maybe??? So goodnight to all, blizzard shmizzard, oh and yes Scott did get to work today as he promised on Tuesday. "I won't get snowed in, I have 4WD and a full day booked! "...... Text just came in that school is canceled for tomarrow. ok now snow storm were are going to have words!! I wish I could text back to the school system....and that's a whole other blog........