Extreme Room Makeover: Orthner Edition

For Christmas, Karl and I got and made stuff for the girls’ rooms. Combined with the gifts from Santa, their rooms have a whole new look. Despite not being the paint the walls since we are in a rental, I think their rooms look quite different.

 

Brady’s room: She as you all know is obsessed with Taylor Swift. So she wanted “a bedroom like Taylor Swift” Well I came upon with picture in my searches of exactly what a TS bedroom might look like.

 

 

While I believe this is an old photo from when she still lived with her parents, Brady (upon seeing the photo) “Yeah, I want a room like that!” I figured this is better then buying something off ebay that had her picture cheaply plastered all over the blanket.

 

Since Santa informed us ahead of time he was giving Brady a stage, mic stand and guitar for Christmas, I decided to make a tulle canopy for her stage instead of bed, for safety. I had plans for do faux four poster bed, but the ceiling fan interfered with that plan. Here are pictures of her room now:

 

We were at Hobby Lobby the other day and Brady went looking for more things for her room. I knew she had Christmas money from Beppa, so I allowed her to go for it. She choose to buy a nightstand, light switch cover and a lamp. She is very proud of her lamp which she completely picked out all by herself and it matched PERFECTLY!

 

A funny story about her new room setup… Brady gets to watch Taylor Swift videos on the internet sometimes. There is a song titled “Teardrops on my guitar” and it is one of the ones she enjoys quite a bit. Here is a snapshot from that video:

 

 

Here is what Brady is often seen doing with her guitar:

 

 

Reese’s Room: For her theme, I felt like I was still able to make the decisions for it. I knew if I asked her I would be told Disney Princesses for something and I refuse to do something commercial. So I went with a bedding set from Target I have had my eye for awhile. She was excited about it when we got it all set up.

 

 

Can you tell I had a BLAST redecorating the two rooms?

I love family time!

Our family took advantage of Karl being on shore tour and took a two week trip to NC and VA to see family. Along the way we saw some friends, had precious memories with family and got to do LOTS of great things. Here is a small snip-it of the great time we had.

 

On the way up, we had to stay in Anderson, SC, which just so happens to be next to Kristen’s hometown. Kristen was my college roommate for 3 years and I love every chance I get to see her and catch up.

On the next day, driving through Charlotte, we decided to make a stop to see the NASCAR hall of fame that recently opened up. It was nice to make a “pit stop” to break up the second day of driving all day long!

The girls were very excited to see Auntie Andi and Uncle Jason. They got right to doing one of their favorite things… Ring Around the Rosie. We also got to see the Wolfpack play basketball, and Brady LOVED the cheerleaders and all the lifts they did. THanks to Uncle J for being her spotter.

We celebrated Christmas with the DeWeeses. The big hit with the girls were their new pink cowboy boots and their paper jamz guitar.

While in Raleigh, I took the time to see some good friends too. I got to see my Meredith girls that still live in Raleigh. Also got to eat Khanki with Ashley. I loved sharing these special moments with my dear friends.

My mom and Ashley gave the girls these adorable knit caps that bow attach to. Here are a couple of cute shots of them wearing the new trendy accessory.

Reese’s actual birthday feel while we were in Raleigh. We celebrated by starting the day with one of her favorite foods, DOUGNUTS! And ended the day with one of her other favorite foods, pizza. We all enjoyed being a kid again at Chuck E. Cheese’s. However,  I will have to say Karl had a BLAST there!

Then after a week, we made our way to Williamsburg. Kim had lots of great activities planned for us.

First day we made our way to Busch Gardens to visit Christmas Town. There we meet Santa and feasted with him. Also, enjoyed walking through a magical lighted wonderland.

The next day we had all you can eat pancakes while watching Tangled in the theater. This was a very fun experience.

I know picture is random, but I thought you would appreciate this…Three females=lots of shoes!

We also opened presents at the Orthner family. The girls are blessed to have so many people that love them!

Beppa really enjoyed bringing her girls to the Nutcracker. She picked out these special fancy coats for the girls. Brady now REALLY wants to sign up for ballet classes.

SNOW…enough said.

We also visited the Yankee Candle Village where we dipped our own candles. On that same day, we had a BLAST at inflation nation, which had 9 jump houses…boy did I get a work out there!

Our trip home we were able to lunch with Uncle Jason and eat with Kristen again. But along the way Karl thought he would treat the girls to a kit kat bar…hind sight is 20/20!!!!

 

Merry Christmas friends and family! Know that this family loves you dearly!

The girls are famous

This is the display at Triangle Town Center's Picture people!