Wordless Wednesday

A Tour of Anagrace's New/Old Room

Anagrace is so happy about her "new" room. She has thanked me several times for giving it a makeover. I don't really have a before picture. This is the best I could find:

Her walls were pale pink above the chair rail and lavendar below, which stayed the same except we painted polka dots on the top half. We also hung a pink gingham ribbon board to display pictures (but right now she has fabric swatches on it for some reason?) ,daisy flower hooks, and a white shelf to display her tea set on the wall.
We painted her name on the front of her bed with polka dots

and hung an eyelet mirror with yellow gingham ribbon and letters to spell out "dream" above her bed.

Under her bed, we took out the cooking set {she has kind of outgrown it:-( } and put a denim recliner there instead. She has enjoyed lounging in the chair and watching the TV that Daddy finally fixed! We put pictures of her as a baby and books on the shelf.Probably my favorite part of the makeover was the new light fixture. We replaced the ceiling fan with this super cute chandelier

I have a few more things I'd like to do...update the curtains, maybe get a rug, and hang up the pictures that she and I will paint someday soon. Here is Anagrace with the blank canvas ( with "paint me" written on the plastic wrap) that she opened on Christmas.

Giving her room a makeover was so much fun for me! In fact, I was so excited to show her on Christmas morning that I woke up before everyone else in the house! I'm so glad that she is as happy about it as I was.

Happy New Year!!!

2010? Wow!

Decided to change the look of the blog with the change of the year....and decade!

Got some new blog posts in the works, but soaking up all the family time during the "break".

The Highlight Reels

I intended to do a Christmas post much earlier. It seems so long ago now. Even though we did celebrate for 6 days straight! Instead of a play-by-play post of our weeklong festivities with family, I'll just give you the highlight reels of Christmas morning:

We had a wonderful time celebrating the birth of our Savior. We had a little "birthday party" for Jesus. Cupcakes for breakfast?! Yum...

Anagrace "camped out"under the tree Christmas Eve. Christmas morning she discovered her room makeover...

Anderson had a blast opening the presents...some that weren't even his! He was really excited to get "Mack" from Disney's Cars to hold the matchbox Disney Cars.

They were all super excited to get the John Deere Gator, although I think the video portrays more shock than anything.

I hope you and yours had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The Prevette Family is definitely excited about the possibilities of 2010....

Wordless Wednesday

SWEET

Spent some one-on-one time with my SWEET girl.

Baked, decorated and ate some SWEET treats together.

Then, went to see some SWEET works of art. We had a great time just the two of us. Picking out our favorite gingerbread houses. Talking about Christmas...

Laughing. (Nice "dragon face")
SWEET memories!

Christmas Traditions

I just thought I'd share some of our Prevette family traditions. Some began the year Justin and I got married and others we've started somewhere along the past 8 years...

We always put up our nativity after reading the Christmas story. My dad got this one for us our first Christmas as "The Prevette Family". Anagrace and I did it this year along with her schoolwork.

I think that the "Countdown Calendar Tree" is probably Anagrace's favorite decoration. Shortly after she wakes up she has to move the stocking and count down the days left 'til Christmas.And a close second in the running for her favorite Christmas decoration, is the pink tree in Anagrace's room. She has had a small tree in her room since she was born (I'm pretty sure). But this pink one is new this year.

Our newest tradition is making a gingerbread house. This is actually the first year we've attempted it; I thought that it was the first time Anagrace could really "help" and enjoy it. And we did have a great time with it. We took it easy being our first year...we bought the premade house. It was already assembled, with roof and walls attached, all we had to do was mix the icing and decorate. I know that is kind of like cheating, but we'll increase the difficulty as the years go by!

So, those are just a few of our traditions. What traditions do you have? I'm always looking for fun and creative ways to make memories!