A New Friend's Birthday Party

We've been in Texas for almost 3 months now and we are making some great friendships. We're so blessed. Ansley started preschool in Sept. and has made several friendships. This past weekend she got invited to her first birthday here in Texas for a little girl in her preschool class.

They had it at a church that has a kids area called Kidztown. It's a huge indoor play area. Ansley had so much fun with the kids in her class and I was so happy as a mom to see her fitting in and playing with all the kids she'll be with this year in class.

Here are a few pictures from the party.


Singing Happy Birthday to the Birthday girl. You can't see Katie very well. She's sitting down in front of the little boy with the red shirt.


A cute area where the food is kept for the kids. My child is there in the black and white stripes. They are sitting on 50's type barstools.


This is Ansley and Abby. One of her new friends at school that she talks alot about.


Some of the play area. It's so big I couldn't get the whole thing in my lens


Here's Ansley and Katie (the Birthday Girl). Not sure who the little boy is. He jumped in at the last minute.

Fall Partying

Today I'm linking up to two Fall Parties. One is Cottage And Vine and the other is Nesting Place . The Nester is having a Mantel Party.


Here is the outside of our home. I plan on getting some flowers for those pots. My previous ones went to flower heaven. I don't have a green thumb unfortunately.


My cute pumpkins I got from Joann's for 50% off.


My wreath was also a Joann's find.


My entry way by the front door. Those pumpkins I've had for years.


This cute door basket was a recent find on a trip to Mckinney,Tx. which is about 45 minutes from our home. They have a cute town square and when we moved here recently we made a visit. They have some adorable shops. I got the flower arrangements for the basket from Joann's.


The cute pumpkin basket I think was a Michaels find a year or two ago and the cute pumpkin tree was from Michaels also I think.


This iron basket is heavy but I love it. I found it at a cute shop where I lived in Florida a year or two ago. I'm not crazy over my table runner but it works for now.

I LOVE this frame. I got it from Kristen's Creations. She has a cute etsy shop. The B frame by my front door too I got from her.

Loving some Hello Kitty Boots

Ireland lately has an obsession with shoes. She wants to wear everyone's all the time. She especially has a love for a pair of her old shoes that she tries to wear all the time. Funny thing is though she wants to wear just one of the shoes so she hobbles around the house with that one shoe that doesn't fit. Ansley the other day left her shoes downstairs and I had turned around to get a diaper to change Ireland and this is what I turned back to. She continued to wear these boots for over an hour. I thought I'd share.

Show Us Your Life: Master Bedroom

Today is Show Us Your Life: Master Bedrooms over at Kelly's Korner . We just moved recently from Florida to the DFW area of Texas in July so everything is still a work in progress but we're getting there.


This is the view upon entering our room. Our walls are still pretty bare and there's lots I still want to do with the area.


This is the nightstand on my husband's side. The picture is of us when we had just started dating.


Don't you love my shades?


This is the nightstand on my side. The framed picture is of our wedding announcement in our local paper. The lamps are from Kirkland's and the nightstands were my grandparents. They're not my favorite but they work for now.


This is the view from our bathroom. The bedding is from Rose Tree. The bed and the rest of the furniture set was my grandparents. They gave it to us 2 years ago and I love it. It's very old around 100 years old to be exact. The windows are going to be getting some curtains before long but for now they are bare.


The bench my grandparents gave us and I painted it and reupolstered it.


One of the dresser sets. I love the swivel mirrors on the dressers and the skelton key draws


Our view from the bed and yes that is my tv sitting sitting on my jewelry case for now. We'd like to get a armoire or something for that space. I don't really care for tv's showing in my room but for now it stays.

Thanks for visiting.

Hide and Seek

Ireland has gotten to where she loves to hide from you and you find her. She just giggles when you find her. The other day we were getting ready to go somewhere and where else did she hide but the pantry. I opened the door and this is what I found. She decided to have a snack while in there too.

A Visit to the Gaylord Texan

While my parents were here this past week we decided to make a trip to the Gaylord Texan to check it out. It's only around 4 miles from our home so we pass it alot and heard it was beautiful inside. It didn't disappoint. They had the Alice in Wonderland theme going on while we were there and it was actually the last day they were having it when we went.


Here's the open area of the hotel. Isn't it beautiful?

They had books all over the hotel like this showing a scene from Alice and then they had replicated it.

David,Dawson,and Ansley looking at the train set there.

Beautiful Texas Star. When you're in the open area and look up this is what you see.

Sweet girl

My sweeties

Looking at this picture you'd never know they fight huh? :)

This was a neat scene like a sand sculpture.

They had longhorns carved out here and there around the hotel.

The Queen of Hearts and the Rabbit

Alice

I loved this.

This is "Hank" the longhorn. He's huge.

My parents with the kids in front of Hank. Ireland looks so happy doesn't she?

The kids loved looking at him. Ireland actually wanted to climb in there with him.

Ireland wasn't sure what to think of the Queen.

Here she had been telling Dawson to bow to her and say "Your Highness."

Is she cute or what? I love this picture.

On our way out.

We had a good time just walking around and enjoying the hotel. If you live in the area and haven't been you should check it out.