I decided to finally paint Alyssa’s room.  I had wanted to do it as soon as we moved in (3 years ago), but it didn’t seem a priority at the time.  And then I procrastinated.  But it’s finally done…well almost.  I have some leaves to paint and some branches to hot glue and well…well is any room every completely done? 

I suppose it took me so long to paint her room because I couldn’t decide on the color…yellow…green…pink…white…green…pink…  Well the pink won out.  But I was nervous about pink.  I like pink, but frankly pink walls scare me because I feel like they can go from cute on paper to tacky on walls.  So I started out light.  I stayed up all night painting light pink on the walls and I received the below responses.

This is how you know you’ve messed up royally.

Husband: Hmmm maybe we should paint the baseboards purple?

Alyssa: That is NOT pink…it’s like white pink.

Alright fine. I’ll get a darker pink, but I still couldn’t see myself painting the entire room a bright pink.  So I kept 2 walls light pink and I thought about a 1/2 wall of pink…which turned into more of a pink mountain.  It was supposed to be more of a canopy of pink flowing around her bed…kind of like one of those mosquito nets (princess flowy thingies?) little girls have around their beds…just a painted version. But it was confirmed by my husband that it is definitely a mountain…especially since there are birds painted on the walls.  Apparently the birds confirm the presence of a mountain…ah well.  Well there’s that and the fact that I painted the peaks wrong, so yes it does look like a mountain and I’m okay with that.

I also added in a tree….I’ve always wanted to paint a tree on her wall and so I finally did it and it looks super cute I think…well at least it will when I finish the leaves.  I also added in a few love birds.

This little love bird below is all by himself on a different wall that you see when you walk in.  I found some really cute white branches for him to sit on, but they keep falling onto the floor…so I need to use a little hot glue maybe? or super glue? I haven’t figured that part out yet.  I’ll let you know how it went in part 2.

Here’s a little preview of her room…almost finished.  She seems to like it much better with the bright pink.  She wasn't so sure about the blue, but I convinced her that it was like the sky.  She also wasn’t thrilled about the tree ESPECIALLY Since it was BROWN…apparently she thought it should be pink…but there was no way I was painting a pink tree.  The lid is firmly on that pink paint and available for anyone to borrow!

Stay tuned for part 2…which might be a while so don’t hold your breath!  hehe

Our entire family (including our car) dressed up in Spider Man attire and sported our spidery-selves to the Trunk ‘N Treat at our church.  It was kind of a bummer that it was on a Monday night because Luke is usually in charge of remembering all the techy stuff and he met us there right after work. I had so much to bring that I forgot our camera!  Of all things right?!  But there were plenty of picture takers at the party!

(Oh yeah we did also feature iron man and the Hulk at our car too…because they were big and cool looking…thanks Hensley’s for letting us borrow them!)

Okay so now that we are on the topic of Spider Man I need to go backwards in time for a few moments to Evan’s Birthday…which was also Spider Man themed!

Here he is…our 3 year old (well in July he turned 3) and I say this in the kindest motherly way…we love our 3 year old Evan much more than our 2 year old Evan. 

Wow what a difference a year makes….seriously.  He went from our “Who wants to deal with Evan? NOT IT – rock. paper. scissors?!” to back in the running for favorite kid. 

We had originally ordered the shirt I was wearing for Evan…Luke ordered it and thought it would be a child’s large and just a tad big…well it turned out to be a youth large and it fit me, so I wore it to the party.  The week before Evan’s party I found a spider girl costume at the party sale on clearance which Alyssa thought was awesome. 

They had lots of fun attempting to do “spider moves” – they never quite got the whole spider web spraying hand move down, but they didn’t care.

Alyssa felt she needed to practice in the mirror…they both practiced their moves all day long in preparation for the party.

Since my mom and grandma flew in for Evan’s birthday I decided to have my mouth surgery the day before Evan’s party.  I think it worked out okay, I wasn’t that swollen yet so I didn’t look THAT strange to everyone at the party, but I did carry around my Spider Man ice pack…people said it looked like I was talking on my spidey phone.

And I still managed to make Evan a Spider Man cake.

Well so after Evan blew out his candles I wanted to get a family picture with us and his cake. As we were preparing for the picture he took a candle out of the cake.  I thought he would lick off the icing like kids generally do, but he had never done it before. He had only watched others do it because I had always said, “no you can’t lick other kid’s cake candles.” 

So this was his BIG MOMENT…and instead of licking the candle he took a big BITE out of it…thinking it was edible.  Watch the reaction on his face that the camera caught…so funny.  And yes, little Luke, watch and learn so you don’t do the same when your turn comes around! lol

Poor guy!

The family picture thing didn’t work out so well so I just took one with just him.  Which turned out MUCH cuter and MUCH happier!

And then we let him eat the icing off of the Spider Man instead of the candle.

That night he changed into his new Batman Jammies and said “Next year I’m going to have a Batman Party!!” 

Happy (belated) 3rd Birthday Evan!