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These bad boys line the entrance to the house. One by one we're using them up. Thinking of something clever to do with the left over cans... we'll see if I'm feeling just as ambitious when the entire painting of the house is finished.

silence

Last night we painted more at the new house. Finished a coat on the trim in the office and one coat of color (you're welcome Dave!) in the dining room. I could say we're almost done with those rooms but one never knows.

After staying up way past bedtime, we decided to call it quits. Dave and I had driven separate because he was finishing the mowing at the old house, but when it came time to leave, the kids begged to have Dad drive them home. Maybe Dad is more fun...who knows!? This may have hurt my feelings slightly. For a second. But then I got to enjoy the 3-minute ride home with no noise. Just the radio. No one asking to turn the air up or the radio up. No screaming. No kicking the back of my seat. No slapping. Just the radio. It was very odd. ;)

Then we got home and began a very late usual nightly ritual. Refer here. And the madness picked up where it left off. :)

Add to the list...
*Dad, I think I'm gonna puke.

Do not be fooled by this ploy. Translate 10-year-old boy to the normal English language and it actually means, "Dad, I think my belly would feel better laying in front of the television."

birthday B

Saturday afternoon we spent the day painting and birthday partying it up. Mr B turned 3. :)

Mr B's fat little sister. The majority of my photos were taken of her. :)

Bubble machine chaos. Who doesn't love bubbles!?

We thought the motorcycle was pretty rockin' until he started her up. Miss K was not so fond.

And no party is complete without Grandpa Randy outlining all the dead bodies in chalk. After almost 9 years of marriage, Dave is still in awe of his father-in-law.

let the painting begin

Oh goodness, you've had to stare at me for the last week. MY apologies!!! It's been a busy week... last of Peyton's ball games, painting, my grandma passed away, birthday party, painting, softball... those are all good excuses, right!?

Anyway, colors were finally decided on, bought, and then left in the new house for 2 days until we could get over there to start. A grand total of 15 gallons of paint! Yes, Dave is very excited for this ;)

Photos below are mostly my inspiration photos, not of our actual house. But soon our house will be more like home.
The picture with the shoes was the initial inspiration for the entry of the house. Then Tayt liked the color so it's going to be his room too. But we're going to add some white polka dots to one wall in his room just to spice it up. Then we're going to do some sort of art work with the green paint to incorporate into the kitchen and the dining room. Now, I'm not sure if the green is EXACTLY what I wanted but we'll see how it goes up on the wall. We might be making another trip to Menards.


That same green color may even go all the way in to the bathroom and sort of match the towels that are on my list to buy. We shall see. That issss the plan... Also...look closely, the white on the right of the photos below is the bathroom color. :)


I am forever in love with this "chalky blue" color. Sometimes in the mood for more gray in it. Sometimes in the mood for more green in it. ANDDD sometimes in the mood for more blue in it. All in all... LOVE! Actually surprised I didn't do every room in the house some shade of this color.

I made the mistake of asking Peyton what color he would like in his room. And then I asked the girls. They both had very HUGE ideas. Peyton voted blazzzze orange. With brown polka dots. I talked him out of this idea and we decided on a nice burnt orange. I can handle that!

The girls were not so easily swayed. Instead of the 1, 2, 3, 4... SEVEN colors it looks like in the photo, we decided on 5 (one of which we already had). AND we decided one wall with all those colors wouldn't knock you down when you walked into the room... sooooo... they're excited. They've been asking to "help" for the past week. At least.

Fortunately, Dave didn't play with his usual softball team this weekend and the rookie team he was playing with lost out of the tournament early Saturday morning. Thanks guys! We got quite a bit done Saturday and yesterday. Ceilings in 4 of 11 rooms done. Just need to finish trim work in the office. Primed the kitchen and dining room. And Dave worked extra hard to get the beautiful border down in the living room. We won't miss it! Now that the kids are all done with ball, we'll have more time to work at the house and said out loud that we wanted to "get more done at the house." No turning back now!