You would never guess this sweetie felt so awful. Anyway, this is about the light/dark difference in paint color from old to new.

This sweetie got the lucky job of squeezing behind the fridge and portable dishwasher. Only problem was neither appliance was very portable as the entire kitchen was stuffed with everything else.

This sweetie is just a sweetie. A yummy, delicious, now far away sweetie.

And our bedroom. Was a used to be creamy white, now yellowed color. One wall looking great in that same yummy chocolate while the remaining three walls look very refreshed in "beach party". The sweetie to the right was discovered to have amazing cutting in skills and did it all without taping. A right fantastic job of it too.

Well, I'll try to post some more finished looking pictures soon.

painting, the start

A little piece of wall above the kitchen sink, started as a very light tan color...

Ended up with a very yummy milk chocolate cover. Sorry for the bad picture colors, I do realize it's a little black looking.

I forgot to get total before pictures... but the living room was previously not quite so white ceilinged and the curved (I call it coved ceiling - and it works for me) was previously the same light washed out tan color as everything else. This cute girl with the attitude worked hard all day, despite feeling incredibly awful. The sweetheart!

We started to add some milk chocolate here.

another snuggle

edited to add: I'm sure my Mom is despairing over his dirty little face, and really, would it have taken that long to scrub? Oh well.

It took me 15 pictures but this one's a keeper!

A new nephew

There are many pictures and stories I could share from the last few days if I had time... but I don't, yet I can't wait any longer to tell you we have a new nephew!!! Martin and Wieska have been blessed with a son and they hope to take him home next week. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. This little one, who they are adopting, has been longed for and prayed for much and we couldn't be more estatic for Martin and Wieska if we tried. May God bless this precious family richly. We can hardly wait to meet him!!!

If that wasn't exciting enough I also had another "nephew" born yesterday. While this little one is not technically my family, his special mom, Yvonne, is my family of heart and I thank the Lord with her and her husband for his safe arrival. Hopefully tonight I can go snuggle him!

As for the other special activities of yesterday, ie. painting, I hope to post pictures soon because my mom and sisters did an amazing job and transformed our upstairs.

What a day!!!

Clayton

It seemed like a long time to wait until we finally got to meet him, but baby Clayton is SO cute and deliciously nummy to snuggle.

A project

Steve tackled our drainage problem after an evening of rain sent us into a bit of a panic.

And of course, there are always willing helpers.

talk about surprises and presents. My family has gone over the top and rendered me...ME... speechless. Can you imagine? They are coming over on Monday and are going to help me paint our upstairs! Imagine, at some point in the next month I may actually finally hang up pictures. One thing I look forward to is putting a quote I bought in its special spot. I'll post a picture of that once it happens.

So, on this Saturday I'm off to the paint store to buy me some paint.

In the meanwhile, in trying to prepare for this I've added a whole lot of chaos to a house that really didn't need more. Poor Steve.