Crazy Life

We have been so busy over here that I haven't had time to blog for a while. It all started last Saturday when Thomas' parents came into town. He told them we had a few projects to work on, and they STILL came to visit us. We sure did put them to work! We were going to finish priming the outside of our house, which seems easy in comparison to what actually happened. It was raining outside so Thomas decided instead, we would scrape the popcorn texture off the ceilings. I had no idea what we were getting, not only ourselves, but his parents, into! That has to be one of the messiest things you can do when improving your home. And it took all day to scrape the living room, office, kitchen and entry way. But it is done and cleaned up.
The next messiest thing I can imagine is re-texturing the ceilings. My parents came and helped...um, let me reword that...they put up the plastic on the walls while I, um, supervised! Then my brother came over and textured the ceilings and half the kitchen walls. He did an outstanding job and it looks so great! Then the next night my dad came over with his power roller and primed the living room ceiling. And, throughout all of this I managed to single handedly paint the office a lovely Gobi Desert color.
We still have a lot to go, but it is already looking so wonderful and more like a comfortable home instead of a shell we live in. I am really so grateful to both of our families and all the help and hard work that have given to help us in our efforts!
Here are a few pictures. I wish we would have taken some pictures of the scraping of the ceilings.

This is the living room draped in plastic.


The kitchen ready to be textured.


And here is the ceiling after texture and primer...SANS styrofoam beams! Hurray!


I know you can't tell much without before pictures, but trust me, things are looking great! Last picture is my lovely Gobi Desert office! And, also in the picture is my Dad's scaffolding for painting. It really made painting so enjoyable to not have to climb down a ladder every two feet to either move it or re-fill my roller! PS, it looks like a sickly color online, but it is really a soft tan, maybe the color of the sand in the Gobi Desert, wherever that may be!


Well, there you have it. This is not even including all the other things I am in the middle of, like getting ready for Rex to come, taking care of the girls, primary, sewing... I have no idea why we waiting until three weeks before the baby comes to do all of this, but I would rather do it before than after! Tomorrow I will have to post about my beautiful girls, they are doing so well in school and all!