Furniture makeover

For the longest time I've been trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my room. We needed new bedding, but couldn't decide on what color. My MIL  made my valances about 5 years ago and I didn't want to ask her to make more, so I decided it had to match those. I also had my headboard remade a couple years ago so it needed to match that too. I was in Home Goods one day and saw a bluish grey bedding set for a good price so I went with that. It still matched everything in my room I didn't want to change. 

Now that I had new brighter bedding I decided to paint the furniture. Buying new furniture wasn't an option. I knew I wanted to go with a lighter color, but not white since my kitchen table is white. Grey is so in right now so that's what I went with. My furniture is laminate which means no sanding!!! Yay! I just primed it all before painting.

I did all of this in my kitchen. Our garage is too packed with all of Ryan's toys. Here's the before look. Boring and drab. 

And here's the afters. 

It's so much brighter, fresh, and happier feeling. I was hoping the color would be a little more grey than grey blue, but I can live with it. I'm glad it's done. I did decide to change out the knobs, but kept the same pulls. 

Now I just need to decide how I want to redecorate my walls. I know I want a starburst mirror, and want to make the desk a little vanity area. I found these lamp bases I want from ikea. 

I saw these at kirklands and thought they would be cute in there. 

And either a bench in front of my bed, or I'll paint my black hope chest and add a cushion to the top to put in front. I also want to paint the walls, but I may hire a professional for that. That's it for now! If you have any wall decor suggestions leave them in the comments. 

Play dates, painting, & 6 Flags

This week was Spring break. Yay for sleeping in! Since we weren't going out of town I made sure we did a little something everyday. 

Monday was rainy and there wasn't any movies out worth seeing, so Carson invited his friend Julian over to come play. 

Tuesday we met up with our friends Mary, Addy, and Kason for breakfast at CFA. 

We're so thankful for these friends. 

Afterwards we took my filthy car for a bath. 

On Wednesday we took our sweet boy to 6 flags for the first time. We had so much fun. 

We really enjoyed our time with him. We just can't get over him turning 7 in a few months! We love you Carson Ray! 

Thursday we loaded up in Aunt Katy's car and headed to Klyde Warren park in Downtown Dallas. Carson was reading a book to Pearson in the car.

We kind of chose a busy day to go unknowingly. Jeff Gordon had an appearance down there, so it was a little extra busy. 

Mary and her kids also met us down there. Despite the business we had a great time. I really like going just to eat off the food trucks. 

Friday we kept it low key. It was raining again. I had a couple errands to run so we took a trip to Braums for their afternoon snack. 

I think for not going anywhere we had a great Spring a Break! In between all of the fun I started a little bedroom makeover. Here's a little sneak peek. 

I'm about 90% done painting all of the furniture. I just need to get some new knobs, and redecorate my walls. I'm loving how it's all coming together! 

Back to Texas we go

We had so much fun on our trip. I can't wait to go again. It will be so exciting watching the kids learn to ski. 

Our view heading home. 

It was taking forever for the snow to fall off the car. Ryan opened end the sunroof screen and still had a huge pile on top. Ha.

Finally back in Texas. 

The drive was far less boring than the drive there. It helped Ryan let me listen to prime country! 

I was so excited to pass Cadillac ranch. We had perfect timing, the wiener mobile was passing it right as we were so I got a picture of both. We stopped in Amarillo for lunch at Hooters. I was so happy to have some sweet tea again. I was having major withdrawals. 

We finally made it home about 7, picked the kids up and gave them their gifts before bed. I was so happy to see their sweet faces. Thanks lolly & pops for keeping my littles so we could have some kid free time! 

Day 3 of skiing

This day was the most fun! We got up early and hit the slopes as soon as the ski lifts opened. By this day I had it down! 

I went with Ryan to what I thought was going to be a green slope. We went down it then once on the lift he said that was a blue. Ha! The guys got tricks people. 

Since he tricked me I made him take a selfie. 

We did the same slope a few times to make sure I had it. I fell a couple times but that's just part of learning. 

This is a restaurant bar at the top of the slope. They were allowing foot traffic this day so Lauren, and two others that were with us rode up the lift while we skied the slopes around it. 

Carson's name was pretty famous up there so I had to take pics to show him. 

My favorite slope we skied was Kit Carson. 

This was the view from the top of Kit Carson. 

After we skied for the day we turned in our stuff, then Lauren and I did a little shopping. This little store had the cutest stuff ever. After the lady rang us up we put a few things back. We got a little carried away. Ha!We had dinner then went back to pack our stuff. We wanted to get an early start driving home since we heard the roads in Texas were bad. 

My car on day 3 before defrosting it. 

Ski trip day 2

The next morning we woke up to loads of snow. There was 19 inches at the top of the mountains and 13 at the base. Insane. 

Ryan, Pete, and Charlie went to ski some of the harder slopes while Lauren and I hung out to play in the snow. 

Us Texas girls aren't used to this so we were loving it. 

We caught Ryan at the bottom taking a break. Snow boarding involves a lot of rolling around in the snow. 

I tried getting a selfie with the deer but then I dropped my phone in the deep snow. Eek!! 

After lunch we headed out to ski the bunny slope. 

It took me a couple times to get it down. I would go so fast. Once I got my turns in check it was easy! I'm so glad I had Lauren to ski with. Ryan's a very advanced skier so I didn't expect him to hang with me. 

He did come check on me every now and then. 

Our cars the second day of snow. After we skied we changed clothes and headed for dinner. We went to a Mexican food place. It smelled so good and was ok, but still not like Texas tex mex. 

After dinner it was bed time! I went to bed so early there. The elevation made my sleep schedule whack!