Marley's Homecomming

Wow, we've had a busy couple of weeks! Marley came home on July 22nd, and my mom got to visit for a little over a week. I finished her room just in time to surprise her when she got home. Here is a rundown of the improvements:
Painted the room pink, laid down the maple flooring, altered and hung new curtains to match her new 1950's inspired Cinderella comforter. Hung her pet net, and princess canopy, put in the extra twin bed and dresser from the ranch, I found these adorable wall stickers at dollar tree and decorated her closet wall with them and above the beds. I took down her heavy closet doors and replaced them with hot pink silk curtains. It turned out really cute, and it's the most finished room in the house.
So anyway, while my mom was here, we shopped, and played with the kids. We tried to see the road runners, but I think it was too hot when we went and they weren't out. We drove up to New Mexico and went to Carlsbad Caverns. It was amazing. It was also nice to get into the cool 60 degree temp of the caves after the 2 hour drive through the desert. And when I say desert, we literally drove through 2 small towns on the way there. No houses, no gas stations, nothing. It was a little scary.
It worked out that Jared was going back to Indiana a couple days after my mom had planned to go back, so she got to stay until Thursday, and we even got to see Jared for a little while.
Saturday Marley and me got to go to the grand opening of a Toy's R Us in Midland. They had live appearances by Funshine Bear, Geoffrey the Giraffe, and Spiderman. But the highlight was seeing Barbie. Of course Marley was terrified of all of them, but I did get her to get close enough to Barbie to get them in the same frame of the pic. They also had buy one get one free barbies, so we were able to get Marley a couple that Barbie signed. It was a fun little outing. Anyway, I've been working my behind off in this house, so as soon as I get more pics, I will post more about the house.