REAL QUICK

I'm throwing this post up real quick and I may or may not add to it later. Sunday was Adrienne's 6th birthday (I can't believe it!) We didn't do much this year because of our crazy lives. I brought cupcakes to her class on Friday and to her church class on Sunday. She got a few Wii games, some pajamas, a book, the game Operation, and....I know I'm forgetting something. We went out to breakfast Monday morning since she had no school (MLK day) and Mike is on swing. We went to the Big Apple Diner. Here are the pictures the girls colored:

What is that on the bunny's ear you might ask? Well a hamburger as an accessory of course!

Colette's bunny...notice part of the page's torn off because of spilled hot chocolate.

Lots of fun stuff happening in the house. I posted those pics of the vanilla custard paint. It looks way more yellow in those pics than it actually is. I'll have to put up some new ones soon. The girls room was painted fushia kiss (see below).

We have the pink chintz as well, but it isn't on the walls yet. This is one of the pics of a magazine article that we are using for inspiration (okay, we're copying a lot of it!)


This is the wallpaper border we're going to use to break up the darker and lighter pinks, instead of painting white. We thought it would be more interesting to add some texture.

The room is a bakery theme. I didn't add all the pictures from the magazine, but some of the things in the pictures are cookie sheets painted pink and hung on the wall for a magnetic message board, cupcake tins painted pink and used to display trinkets, and a rolling pin hung on the wall to use as hooks for things. We're adding a french twist to the room since Adrienne loves france. We have a pretty calendar we got her for Christmas with scenes from paris. Actually you can see it here (click on the small picture under the bigger one). That wallpaper border also appears to have a fleur de lis pattern to it. Not sure what else we'll do that's french, but I thought the bakery-french theme would be cute since the french are known to be pretty competent in the baking department ;-) and Adrienne and Colette certainly have well-developed sweet tooths. Actually another birthday present we got Adrienne was the Betty Crocker cake decorating kit. Maybe a weird gift for a 6-year-old, but she and Colette had been begging for it for months!

We found an inexpensive place to buy granite, so we're getting it instead of formica. This is what is going in the kids bathroom and the laundry room. It's called cristallo white:

We also painted in the master suite (well Mike did, he's doing all the painting actually). This is the color, if you can't read it, it's Windsor Haze. And below is the granite we're using for our bathroom, it's called Ice Flower Blue:


The granite below is called shanxi black. It's a smooth sleek black with gold flecks in it (this picture doesn't show that well), its' very pretty. It's a dark granite and our appliances are black, but our cabinets and floor are oak, and the walls are vanilla custard so it will be lightened up with those other things:

I'll take pictures in the house when the painting is finished up (still have to paint the ceilings and then we can take the tape off the windows and see how it looks in the natural light). Next up are the hardwood floors and carpet! We will be moving in sometime between the end of February to mid-March (FINALLY)!