Melton Manor

 I know that these pictures are long overdue, but here is the up and coming Melton Manor.  We are on a corner and this is the side view.  This has looks small is the front but has length thru the back.  These pictures are not current but I wanted to give you an idea of the house.  We started construction in November and as of now we are about a month or so out.  Currently all the interior trim work and cabinets are being done and the painting will begin next week.  I will start getting pictures posted as things get done.  When there is no sheet rock or walls its hard for people to see what the house will look like.  We are very happy with everything that has gone on with our home.  Our builder has been wonderful and has taken care of everything that we asked or stressed about.  I really have been impressed with all the people that we have worked with from the builder to workers in the house. 

We went with a darker brick and ended up adding a real drystack stone on the front entry.  The rock has turned out awesome and I will post a picture soon.   

 

These pictures are not the best but this is the girls favorite part of the house, the stairs!  We also went ahead and did wood stairs after much thought and consideration.  They are currnetly being put on and I cant wait to see them.  I also like how the stairway curves and creates a private upstairs for the girls in the future.  When building this house we tried to think were we would be 5, 10 years from now and as the girls grow their going to need their own room and space. 

 

This is a picture of our front office.  We changed this room quite a bit from the original and plan and I think that it wil end up being my favorite room.  More pictures to come very soon. 

Valentine's Day 2013

I had the girls pictures done before Valentine's Day with my good friend Julie Dawkins.  She does these mini sessions around the holidays and they always turn out super cute.  I made a collage and put some of my favorites.  I have also discovered a great place to order pictures called MPIX, love the!.  You order your pictures online but they are great prints at awesome prices.  They just had a 50% off sale for anything 8x10 and over, so I got a  16X20 for about $12.00, awesome!  And like I said the pictures look like they came from your photographer.  They also ship super quick, I got my order in less than a week.  The girls are doing awesome and they are getting along wonderfully.  Campbell loves her big sister and Bailey loves telling Campbell what to do, its a win win.  The month of February has kept us very busy.  We have had basketball, softball, or both everyday of the week.  It has been exhausting but Bailey is loving it and that is all that matters. 

This is a test!! And Summer Pic's

Ok, so I have been absent for months now but I have a good excuse.  As many of you may know I am computer illiterate and I managed to lock myself out of my blog, go me!!  So finally I have figured out how to get back on here and get going again.  So this is just a test to make sure everything will post correctly.

My sweet Campbell!  She has such a sweet personality and says the cutest things.  Rather than responding "yes" to a question she always says "sure" or "sure mommy."  She also is very good at asking if she can do something and when she gets the response she wants she always follows with "thank you!"

Bailey is a 2nd grader this year, so hard to believe.  She is doing great in school and has started her gifted/talented class and she LOVES it!  She is always telling me of the neat projects that they are doing with a huge smile on her face.  She has also started playing on a competitive softball team that has been a huge time commitment on her part but she has been really dedicated to it.  It is so awesome to see how she is changing and learning new things, I am very proud of her.

I love my girls and they love each other!  They get along really well and I am so thankful for that.  Campbell loves her sister big sister and is always wanting to know where she is and what she is doing.  Don't get me wrong they have their moments, but those are few and far between.  I just hope they stay close forever.

Tea Party

This past Sunday we had a Princess Tea Party with Princess Bailey, Princess Campbell, and Princess Ramsey.

Bailey had decided that she was going to make invitations and hand them out to the neighbors, without her mama's knowledge might I add, inviting them to this event. 

I found out about our little gathering when one of neighbors told me she was RSVP'ing.  She basically informed me of the event and that we were supposed to dress in princess attire. 

So I asked Bailey how she was going to put this all togehter, and she said "you will!"  So I had to have a little talk with her on Event Planning 101.  Lesson #1, inform the party planner of the party! 

So we put things together.  We had tea and cookies, and of course a little goody box with a candy necklace and some princess rings.  The girls had such a great time and it is soemthing that we will do together very soon.

Valentine's Day and Randomness

Since we have had such awesome weather lately we have been going outside to play alot. These are just some pics that we took outside one evening. The girls play so well together and get along so much that we have decided that we are going to invest in a bunk bed and let them share a room for awhile. Bailey is super excited about this and Campbell has no idea how her world is about to change. We want to start transitioning Campbell into a bed and thought this might be the perfect way. The girls spend alot of time playing and watching movies in Baileys room so we thought it just made sense.

These are my sweet Valentines! Two of them decided that they needed naps and passed out on the couch mid evening.

Tim and I were able to eat lunch at Charlestons on Valentines Day and we also enjoyed some Cherry Berry together, romantic I know that's just how we roll. Tim also got me some beautiful roses and a box of chocolates. It turned out that Tim and I bought each other the same box of chocolates, cute! I also got Tim some cookies from Barbees Cookies and they are OMG delicious. They are located at 101st and Memorial and lets just say they give Merritts a run for there money.

Happy Valentine's Day

I was so excited to look in the mail today and see that our Valentine's photo session cd had arrived . A friend of mine at church named Julie Dawkins did these for us, Julie Dawkins Photography. I have known Julie since high school where we were in our church's youth group together. She has taken up photography as a hobby and I think that she is awesome. I thought that before but now I really know its true after having a session with her. Bailey had a basketball game in Bartlesville earlier in the day so at this point Campbell had not had a nap and was not a happy camper. She would not have her picture taken by herself and I honestly believed that I would have no shots of her. Bailey on the other hand was a picture taking princess. She wanted to do every pose that she could think of and then some.

It was worth everything just to have these two pictures taken. These are the best pictures that I have of the girls together, love them!
I got their outfits made from Bergaboo. These two ladies make them in jenks and I just loved them. I had Christmas shirts made with reindeers and then new ones for Valentines day. The skirts match both outfits so I can interchange them. I was so happy with them and think they are just to cute.

These two girls really do love each other so much and get along so well.

Can you believe this girl is 7 years old?

Bailey's basketball team is first in their league and so we will playing in a basketball tournament on Valentine's evening, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Tim and I will be helping out with Bailey's Valentine party at school as well, so that should be a fun time. We will be together as a family and that is the most important thing. Happy Valentine's day y'all, we love ya!

January 2012

We have had quite the month in January. I have been out of it most of the month after my surgery, but I am happy to say that things are going great. I am using a cane to walk and have finally started driving here and there. I do spend most of my time at home but I am getting so much done that it will be hard to go back to work next week. Bailey has been playing basketball and her team is first in their league. She has also started learning to pitch for softball. Her coach decided that they would be moving up in the league and play 8 and under, which is kid pitch. It's hard to believe that she is at this level already, but were here and she is so excited to learn. I have started teaching her all that I know and she is doing great. I will also be helping to coach her team this year so I am very excited about that.

Campbell is growing and growing, she is amazing. She has such a sweet way about her. She has taken to scarves in the last few weeks and you can find her either dragging them around the house or wrapping herself in them in some way shape or form. She decided the other day that she would get some wrapping paper out and wrap herself as a present, it was so cute! She kept saying, "I ah present mama, I ah present." We are still obsessed with the movie Tangled in our house. Tim and I both have it memorized now. Campbell loves to sing the songs in the movies as well as dance to them.

The other night I had made Campbell dinner. I was still in the kitchen cooking, when I realized that she had gotten really quite all of a sudden. When I looked over there she was, asleep! She was sitting up at the bar on the bar stool and just feel asleep. It was the cutest thing EVER! I grabbed my camera real quick and got these pics, aren't they cute!

We will have a busy weekend with a basketball game in Bartlesville and then we'll hurry home to take some Valentine's Day pictures. My friend Julie at church is taking them, cant wait to post them!