{{Somewhat}} Wordless Wednesday!

It's a great week here in the Barrett house, as it is Mellany's Birthday Week!! We've been prepping her for just about a week now...singing happy birthday with her, telling her her birthday is coming up ...and I actually think she might have caught on! We are really excited to celebrate with family and friends! Here's what we've been up to since my last post:

Happy Birthday Pictures for Johnny who was out of town!

Free train ride in Kearney....thanks to the Union Pacific! I'm pretty sure Mellany found every pivot along the way. 

After about 10 minutes, she got bored with me and went up to Adrienne, Quinn and Kyndall. 

Barn Festival with Katie! So much fun!!

Watching Cinderella with Baby Karen

Nice, relaxing Saturday with daddy

Race for the Cure: Harvest Widows. I am so excited to report that I beat my previous time by almost 2 minutes: 34:40! Here's to beating that time! 

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!

{Somewhat} Wordless Wednesday on Thursday!

It has been a super crazy week around here trying to get things ready for Mellany's birthday and with Johnny being out of town; this mama is definitely ready for the weekend!

We spent Saturday at Noah's 5th birthday party! Mellany wasn't crazy about the opening presents part as you see in both pictures. She was more interested in watching another kiddo (first picture) and playing on Noah's Grandma Pix's phone (second picture, below the clock). 

Butcher paper coloring! One of the best pinterest/blog ideas ever!

Selfies! (wouldn't be complete without a silly face of course)

And a little bit of "drums"

Big girl haircut!

Mellany got her first haircut this past week and man does it look super cute! It makes her look about 5 years older, but it is really adorable! I was really impressed with the way Mellany handled all of it too. She sat in the chair, didn't scream, cry, etc., and even pointed things out around the room. I was so proud....of course the candy she got for sitting in the chair probably helped our cause. :)

Before & During

 

After!

Rocker Re-Do

This past weekend I stepped out of my comfort zone a little and took on a pretty decent sized craft project. My parents bought this rocker when I was a baby and I always thought it was so neat as a kid. I begged them to keep it versus selling it in a garage sale and thus the chair became mine. I eventually decided I didn't really like the look of it as it was and with nowhere to put it in our current home, I thought I would just go ahead and sell it in our garage sale this past June. Well, nobody bought it. After talking to a friend about the chair she suggested I go looking at pinterest; and I did! What I found was simple and looked amazing.....so, I took on the project and am SO glad I did. It turned out incredible (if I do say so myself). I can definitely see how this becomes addicting!


Before & After!

{Somewhat} Wordless Wednesday!

**Today, we are remembering 9/11...the victims and their families, the soldiers and their families. May we never forget!**

A little saturday cleaning

Chiefs Sunday! I probably went a little overboard with these, but they were all just so darn cute!

She saw daddy with mama's phone and when she was told she couldn't have it, she was not a happy camper!

HAPPY WEDNESDAY!