New colours for my girls room

Hello ladies. I don't think there are any men reading my blog so, hello ladies. I have been busy changing some things in Taylor and Hannah's room. Yes, they are in the same room now, well they have been since the summer. So now I have a guest room, so come visit me anytime!

Here is the blog post of what her room looked like before. The beginning is Taylor's old room (the new guest room). The second half is Hannah's room, there isn't really that much of a difference so don't get too excited.

Here is the fabric I saw on Fabric.com that inspired me.





So I bought a whole bunch of fabric to make quilts for their beds, to make pillow cases, and to put on the back of the bookcases.

I changed one of her bookcases into a dress up closet. I got the idea from Pinterest. She loves to dress up so this was perfect for her. The baskets have hair bows and headbands, necklaces, bracelets, shoes and any other dress up accessories. The picture on the shelf is of Hannah wearing a Snow White dress meeting the real Snow White in Disneyland, it is an adorable picture. I used some extra fabric to put over a bulletin board. And she loves the mirror to check out how she looks. This dress up closet does not usually look like this, it's usually super messy, believe me.





I spray painted these gold frames with white glossy Krylon. They turned out really nice.



I put some fabric in the back of the shelf and the dress up closet. I love this look. It is super easy to do too. The frame with the happy face is a frame for the girls artwork. Hannah did the happy face, and she is very proud of it.



Joe and I stained this corner shelf in the summer. It looks way better than it did before!



Then I started working on the quilts with the help of Andrea Barnes. Thanks so much Andy for helping me! She explained step by step how to make this. She even came over one night for a few hours, brought me a slurpee, ironed, and helped put it together. This is what one of them looked like once it was all sewn together.



After many hours of sewing, this is the finished product.



I didn't get a picture of the back side, but it is super soft grey minky.



The girls love their new quilts.



I still have some more work to do, and some more accessories I need to find. But this is the update for now!

Favourite Christmas Holiday Pictures

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. I have enjoyed sleeping in everyday, and eating whatever I want. I wanted to share some of my favourite pictures and moments from the last week.

This first one was taken right after I surprised Joe and took him to the IIHF World Junior Canada vs. Sweeden Hockey game. I think I was just as excited to surprise him as he was to go to the game. We had great seats and had a great time!



While Joe and I were at the game, my mom and dad were babysitting. When we walked in the door, this is what we saw...



We didn't have a tree, so they got one for us and set it up with the girls while we were at the game. Thanks mumzy and daddykins!

On Christmas eve day, the girls wanted to go tobogganing, but we didn't have any sleds or crazy carpets. We went white trash style and made our own with a black garbage bag and cardboard!





My mom and dad came over Christmas eve. We ate some good food, sang some Christmas songs and read from the scriptures. It was a fun night.



Before I went to bed, I ended up watching the last half of one of my favourite movies, "The Sound of Music." Christoper Plumber is a very handsome young man!



Christmas day was so fun. I loved watching the girls open their stockings and gifts.







Hannah got some ballet dress up clothes and tried them on for me. These are the poses she showed me.





A couple days later we were in Waterton. It was like a ghost town there. It was windy and cold, and you had to drive to the fire hall if you needed to go to the bathroom, but the girls still had fun. We went tobogganing down this pretty steep hill. This picture of Hannah and her cousin Brynna was taken a little while before Hannah was crying from going down the hill with me. In her own words, "Mommy, why did you land on me and bonk my head? Waaaa!" We wiped out pretty good.



I love this one of Hannah on the swings in Grandma Julie and Pop pops backyard. She was on this swing everyday, multiple times a day. And she was always say, "Mommy, mommy, look at me, look how high I can go!"



The girls also loved to get out the painting stuff. They would sit and paint for a long time!



This last one is my favourite. Hannah found this rifle and was walking around asking everyone to put their hands up. Haha!



I am so happy that I have one more week to sleep in!

The Spooktacular at Fort Edmonton Park

We went to the spooktacular at Fort Edmonton park last weekend. I was really looking forward to this, and ready to be scared! I found out that it was going to be the theme of creepy clowns and freak shows. I am not usually scared about those things so I wasn't too worried. And I was dressed for the weather. I was wearing 2 shirts, a hoodie, my winter coat, capris leggings, sweatpants, my toque, a scarf, and mittens.

On our way to the "scary street" the UofA dance team was doing the Michael Jackson thriller dance. And then when they were done they just walked around like zombies. It kinda freaked me out, and I screamed, and they noticed. They started following me and staring at me. It was pretty creepy.

When we got to the scary street, there were clowns and freaky circus people all over. This clown was Joe's favourite, he laughed like Krusty the clown and would fall down all the time.

This clown was the creepiest looking one. It would come up behind you quietly and then honk it's horn.

Some of the haunted houses were pretty scary. This fortune teller one was creepy. She handed out a card at the end that said "look behind you," I didn't look behind me cause I was too scared, and then something started crawling out from under her table.

There was another haunted house where we were brought into this room and then all of the sudden, these girls were behind us.

On the way out there was a place with snakes, scorpions and tarantulas. Snakes, don't scare me, well, the non-poisonous kind. But scorpions do, and especially big spiders, like tarantulas.

Everyone was being brave and holding the tarantulas. At the last second I decided to hold it, and then not, and then hold it, and then not. I kept opening and closing my hand. And then I decided to just do it. I did it. I held a tarantula in my hand! And it was a huge one! Once it was on my hand, I could barley feel it. But it still grossed me out. That spider was not crawling fast enough across my hand. And it's body even rested on my hand, EW! Yes, this is my hand in this picture.

I can't believe I did that. And I won't be doing it again.

I have to admit. I wish the spooktacular was scarier. Next year, the corn maze at Halloween!

Goodbye Rover

As many of you know, my car (Rover, as Taylor would call it) was stolen a couple weeks ago. The police found it 4 days later. The car seemed to be fine, except for a broken window and garbage all over the inside, and was at the autobody shop. I thought we would be getting our car back in about a week. After they inspected our car, we got a message from our insurance adjuster last Wednesday that our car will be a write-off and that we won't be getting it back. I started to cry. I know it's silly, but I love my car. It has been so good to us. Here is a picture of me with Rover right after we bought it in 2002.

We have had our car for almost 10 years and have had many fun memories with it.

Look what those "bad guys," as Hannah would call them, did to my license plate!

I went to visit Rover on Friday at the autobody shop to grab some things from the trunk. And to say goodbye.

Good bye Rover, we will miss you.

Hello new car.

We bought a Hyundai Sonata Limited Turbo. It. Is. Awesome. I never expected to ever drive anything but a Honda, cause I love them, but as soon as I saw this car and took it for a drive, I fell in love. Yes, I already love my new car.

Snaggle tooth

Taylor has lost 4 teeth in the last 2 weeks. 2 of them being her top two front teeth. The last one finally fell out today and it has been hanging by a thread for the last couple days. My mom even offered Taylor $4 if she would let my mom pull it out. Taylor said no. I took these pictures today after school.

Check out this snaggle tooth!

Then we had dinner and Taylor noticed her tooth fell out...only we couldn't find it. We think she ate it. Pretty gross if you ask me.



I am so happy this nasty tooth finally fell out. I think Taylor looks so cute with her 2 front teeth missing. She has a little lisp now and sounds cute too.

I am going to do a photo shoot of her sometime this week, before her awkward ginormous sized front teeth start growing in...before she looks like THIS!...

I love Jimmy Fallon...part 4

It's about that time again. It's been a while, and I know you have all been waiting for more Jimmy Fallon.

Just so you all know, when I watch Jimmy, I find something on every show that is worthy of my blog posts. So it is extremely difficult to narrow down my favourite parts. And since it's been a while since my last Jimmy post, 7 months to be exact, this is going to be a good one! I promise you will have a good laugh!

One of the main reasons I love late night with Jimmy Fallon is because of the games he plays with his guests.

Here is a game called bow and arrow stand-off he played with Jason Sudeikis.

Who here likes Hugh Jackman? What about Hugh Jackman wet? Well, in this game, you get both. Check it out here.

I don't know how many of you have seen this already, but this is the best thing I have seen in a long time. It involves Jimmy's BFFSM, Stephen Colbert.

This is another one I have shown a lot of people, but for those who haven't, check out this video with Justin Beiber.

I know all of you have seen this one. "Let us play with your look." I can't wait for the next one he does. Don't watch it unless you want that song stuck in your head all day.

This next clip is about a fight that is going to happen on late night with Jimmy Fallon between Jonah Hill and Matthew Morrison.

This is a funny skit he did with Emma Stone. This idea all started when he heard someone in the audience say "ew!" really loud. And he occasionally says "ew" randomly on his show.

This next one is a video he did with his writers. It's about old tapes he found from the 80's about a video dating service called Cupid's Arrow. My favourite characters are Jose and Chiz Dippler, both played by Jimmy!

And then of course Jose had to make an appearance on late night with Jimmy Fallon in the audience. I would have loved to be at this show! Hiii-ya!

I love the amazing guests Jimmy has on his show...like Justin Timberlake. As you all remember from my first part of I love Jimmy Fallon blog post, I showed you all the History of Rap he did with Justin Timberlake. Well, Justin was on again this summer, and if you want to find out if they did another rap, check out this clip!

If you didn't think I was a crazy Jimmy fan, you will after reading this paragraph. I was googling pictures of Jimmy for this blog post and I typed in "Jimmy Fallon monologue." I scrolled down a little, and this is what I saw:

ME. That's right. Me. I was like, "uhhh...that's me." It is a picture from my blog post about my trip to New York. I am holding up the monologue rehearsal ticket and the stand-by ticket we had for his show. Crazy.

Here is another one. If you google "I love Jimmy Fallon" this is what shows up:

My blog is second. I promise I am not a crazy psycho stalker. I just really love Jimmy Fallon, and his show. Don't worry, my husband knows about this obsession.

There are so many more clips I want to add, but it is getting too long already. If you don't already watch late night with Jimmy Fallon, you should. It makes me happy and laugh every night! And I need that!