It only took 7 years of home ownership but...I finally painted!

On Monday Anna came over so our girls could play and while we were talking we started to discuss painting because she just had her whole house repainted in the outside. Anna started to talk to me about how it wouldn't be that hard to paint and I decided to just do it. That's kind of how I am, if I make up my mind about something I go for it. So I started to make preparations right away and went and got paint samples and supplies. My samples were WAY too dark so Anna came over Tuesday morning with more samples and we painted a bunch more colors on my wall. After much deliberation with several people I picked my color which is the same color that Anna painted her whole house. It's kind of a greige as we like to call it, kind of gray kind of beige depending on the light and how you decorate it. It's more gray than beige but it takes on that look depending on the light. Anyway I worked really hard Wednesday and Thursday boxing in all the walls so they could just be painted with a roller brush after that. My whole body hurt and I was so tired already.

Anna came on Friday and worked ALL day. She ended up doing most of the actual roller brush painting. I ended up doing things like scrape glue spots that the previous owners had filled their holes with. It was horrible! It would not be painted over and I just had to scrape and pull and scrape and pull. It was so hard to get off the walls. It took forever. I would also have to stop and take care of my children or clean up crazy messes like when a Halloween snow globe managed to break and shatter glass and glitter and water everywhere in the kids room. You know stuff like that!  But we did it. I'm so grateful for Anna's help. She helped me move furniture back and we moved things around differently. Our kitchen table is way better turned the other way. She pushed the couch forward and I actually really like it but Scott isn't so sure yet. I was so tired but couldn't stop yet because above the kitchen cabinets the paint color was really dark gray and almost looked purple. It especially looked horrible with my red kitchen decorations in front of it. So I had to go check out a few thrift stores to look for something and only found a plate to paint so I went and bought some good old spray paint. I love spray paint. I started right in on painting my old decorations and was spray painting outside in the dark.

On Saturday I continued to spray paint off and on all day and scrub my kitchen from top to bottom. It all felt so clean and fresh with new paint that I wanted the rest of the kitchen to be clean and fresh too. I mop my floors often but they still look terrible so I got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed with a rag and my other best friend a magic eraser and cleaned the floor really good. Wow it looks so much better. I swung by Real Deals to look for something that could work in the kitchen and found something for less than $3 that might work and then I made the missionaries homemade Cafe Rio dinner. Holy smokes. I was so happy today was Sunday so I wouldn't work for a hot second. I'm tired and my kids need some attention. Ha!

The girls helped me wash the car on Monday. Such a cute pic! I love that they are matching even down to their side ponies.

The kids helped wipe down the walls before painting. This lasted at least a minute. Ha.

Cute Ryan. I should really feed him but I let him go to town and he loves it and he makes a huge giant mess three times a day. Some meals are worse than others!

Gabby was helping Ryan walk around today.

I don't have any decor up yet but I actually really like the empty walls right now. I'm feeling so claustrophobic in this house right now and it feels nice to have less clutter, I also spray painted the black slats in my fire place that used to be gold.

The table looks much better turned this way. Oh my floors look so clean.

Red directly on this wall looked HORRIBLE! I spray painted that plate turquoise along with the lids of my canisters. I spray painted my green apples yellow. I can't even tell you how much better those colors look up there. It was crazy what a difference it made. I also spray painted my gold and white cabinet knobs black. (That was a pain).  That's all. I feel like a read adult having now painted my house a little bit. Now I really do need to repaint the rest of the house even if I still paint it white. It really needs a new coat. BAD!

Kid Quotes:
Corbin: "What happens if I don't like it...I get what I get and I don't throw a fit?" Ha. His teacher at his school must say that expression. Hilarious.

Gabby: "I'm going to save the best one for Daddy." (saving him a raspberry from the garden).
"Mom I know who won't listen to anybody? Ryan." (and Gabby by the way).

Piper: "Oh I can't believe it. I am so tired."
"Mommy do you think I'm beautiful? Me: "Yes I do." P: "Yep I am."