Bugs Bugs Bugs!!!

 Anyone that has met Ashley, knows that she loves BUGS. She has loved the summer because she has been able to catch lots of bugs. Some of the most impressive have been the praying mantis she caught at the park...

the grasshopper she caught in our backyard...

 and the catapillar that she caught while we were on a walk on our trails(actually she caught like 25 catapillars over a three day period).

 She has also caught numerous rolly pollys, worms, slugs, snails, beetles, and even flys. It kind of grosses the rest of us out, but I've learned to look the other way.
When Alyssa started school again, we decided that it was time to give the girls their own rooms(they were keeping each other up too late which made for some grumpy girls in the morning). So we said goodbye to our nursery(which has been sitting unused for way too long)...

 and created this(the picture above is actually from the previous owners. We forgot to take a before picture with our stuff in the room. We did, however, have a crib set up and a changing table.)

 Ashley wasn't excited about sleeping in "the baby room" at first, but when we told her that she got to have whatever design/color in her room that she wanted she was a lot more excited about it. She chose some creepy/realistic looking bug wall stickers off of the internet and we found the leaf stalks at IKEA. We were all very pleased with how it turned out.