BeForever Launch

I am sorry this has taken me a week to get this put together!  The girls are back in school this week, which has been a transition for me.  In June we welcomed Lucas to our family and I am home with the new baby for the year.  Looking forward to having the time to reorganize our doll space and dedicate to playing with my girls and their dolls!

When the summer began with our new addition, it put the breaks on traveling.  The Wilmot sale took place the first week of June and there was no way I could go, so sad to have missed it!  I really was hoping to complete Saige's collection at the sale.  Her balloon and art set were the pieces I couldn't justify buying at full price and hoping I might be able to pick up at the sale

School Days...a Day in Science Class

The school year is quickly moving along this year...here is a peek at 4th grade science with the girls. Today the girls were learning about different forms of plant life, taking into account plants from today and from the past and discovering similarities and differences.

My Life As...Outfits - A Review

I had some errands to run today and made a quick stop to Wal-Mart this morning after dropping Zoey off at school.  I am so happy that I did!  I happened upon some really fun doll finds, some of which I will share here in this post. These outfits were each $9.99 and included some fun little accessories.

This outfit I thought would be so fun for a spring outfit...it's really adorable.

Fun with Friends!

It has been so long since we have posted on the doll blog!  We've tried to keep up with updates on the Facebook page but crazy times have made for some pretty long absences here in AG Doll Play world. Gracie and Lily (Amanda's girls) now have a new baby brother and in addition to my changing careers we also have made a (local) move into a house...that has a room solely dedicated to playing and DOLLS!  Hooray!  We will share pictures of how we set things up with you soon.

But in today's post we wanted to share some pictures of our dolls in their new home...we had some time to play this afternoon and it felt so good!  We had to share pictures of some of our friends with you.

Here is Zoey and Kristen chatting about their new room...they are the oldest friends and this move was pretty exciting for them!  Things are so much more calm now that everything has been unpacked and put away.  The funny thing about these two is that they must like familiarity because they have decided to set things up in their new house pretty much like things were set up at the "old" house!  (Kristen is wearing a hair extension in these photos).  :)

Our First Night with Lanie!

We recently sold Zoey's AG horses and stable set...they weren't getting used or played with and we didn't have the space to have them out anyway!  It was Zoey's decision and I told her that if it sold she could have the money from the sale.  Well, the horses sold this week and it just so happened that we found a listing on craigslist for an AG doll (something that is very rare for our area) and it was Lanie Holland, 2010's Girl of the Year!

This was the photo of the listing:

The Camping Trip

After packing up all of the things we thought we might need we started off our adventure with some tree climbing. Lanie LOVES the outdoors and had fun with us climbing.

Thank You Dolly Dorm Diaries!

We are so excited to share with our readers and to discover ourselves that we have been nominated for the "Liebster Award" by one of our favorite blogs, Dolly Dorm Diaries!  So fun!  
Here are our questions from Dolly Dorm Diaries:
1.  What part of doll collecting do you love most?  The favorite parts for us are setting up new scenes for playing or photographing...arranging and re-arranging things and coming up with craft ideas for existing doll items or in place of them!2.  What are you to your doll(s)?  Mom? Caretaker? Friend?  Hmmm...for me (Jen) I would be the caretaker...Zoey is a friend to many of her dolls as well as a caretaker and sometimes I think a mom to her Bitty Baby or Bitty Twin.
3.  What doll is your mini me? Hmmm...perhaps Rebecca for me (Jen here again) and Claire for Zoey.
4.  What is your favorite AG pet?  Pepper and Honey!
5.  Ever been to an AG Place?  If so, where?  Zoey and I went to the Mall of America location American Girl Doll store and Bistro and had such an amazing time (you can see more of our visit here).  We hope to go back soon!
6.  Take your dolls out in public?  Zoey has in the past, though hasn't lately.  She will sometimes bring her in the car though and leave her in the car to rest while we are out and about.
7.  Beach or mountain vacation?  Beach!!
8.  Favorite vacation spot?  Hmmmm...we love Tarpon Springs, Florida (a small Greek village) but I would love to actually go to Greece one day!
9.  Favorite AG Horse?  Not sure, the larger one that we have...we named it Butterscotch.  :)
10. Early riser or night owl?  Night owls!
11. Own an AG boy doll?  Name?  We don't have any boy dolls.

This was fun!  Thanks for the nomination and to whomever would like to play along...please consider yourself nominated because we can't just choose our favorites because there are simply just too many!  Here are some questions for those of you that would like to participate.  Please link up your replies here in the comments so we can stop by and check out your answers!!
1. How did you come to start getting into playing or collection American Girl dolls?2. What does your collection mostly consist of?3. Does your collection continuously change?  Do you sell thing and purchase more and do this over and over or do you consistently add?4. Do you share your love of dolls with friends in real life?5. How old are your dolls when it comes to how you imagine them to be?6. How often do you play with or arrange your dolls/collection?7. How often do you shop at American Girl (in the store or online)?  Do you anxiously await new releases?8. Do you think playing with or collecting American Girl dolls will diminish as you get older or do you see yourself continuing your love of dolls indefinitely?9. Why do you think you love dolls so much?  :)10. What do you enjoy most about sharing your doll love with online communities/blogs/social media, etc.?