Sunday, February 22, 2015

Update

I've been working on a painting project all week.My friend had bought an old entertainment center and I practically begged her to let me paint it. I really love doing stuff like that so she's really doing me the favor. I try to follow the expert advice of painters and wait 24 hours between coats but it's hard! So annoying to wait. I've painted 2 primer coats and 2 color coats. It looks terrible. I'm kind of nervous it's not going to work out. The surface was super sleek so it was hard for the primer to stick to and now the red paint is just not going on evenly at all. I'm hoping things will even out in the next couple of coats. Fingers crossed! I just love seeing a finished project (when it works out that is). Baby nap + girls tv time=mommy paint time.

In most exciting news Scott made a sale yesterday. Hooray!So that was very exciting and we had to celebrate by making chocolate melty cakes. So delicious and so easy to make. Dangerous combination!

It's been really nice this week, We went to our favorite park and played. It was great. I love the warmer weather. It cooled down today though. I think Heavenly Father was helping me not be tempted to do a coat of paint today. Ha.

We had Sunday dinner with our friends tonight. It was fun to get together and it really helps break up a Sunday. When you get out of church at 12:00 it makes for a really long day with 4 little kids.

Gabby quote: "You know what mom, I like being a kid."

I have some pictures from Scott's phone from Gabby's birthday weekend celebrations.

Ryan playing peek a boo with my scarf.

Jump time. Little cousin Greta to the left. Ryan's head in the middle, followed by a blurry Corbin, Gabby, and Piper.

Foam Pit

Gabby jumping to the left. Pipes near the front. Corbin's honey buns, and Ryan to the right.

Ryan is very destructive. His favorite thing is to make messes and destroy things. He especially loves knocking over our chairs. Poor chairs are not holding up to his destructive ways.

Gabby colors 5 million pictures. She is quite the artist. I can't possibly keep them all. Her is a snap of some of her masterpieces last week.

Friday night popcorn and movie night. Girls in the bedroom. Boys in the front room.
Our finished train puzzle. Don't mind the glare or the missing puzzle pieces, that's the risk you take buying it second hand. Although Scott did find one more piece that Ryan had thrown down the vent, so it was only missing 3. Scott is amazing at puzzles. He did most of it, I did some and Colie and Janet did most of the train section. I bought a 300 piece puzzle with big pieces and lots of different pictures on it. It's more on my level. Gabby is helping me and she's already put way more pieces together than I have. She has the eye I guess.

2 comments:

  1. Hurray - the puzzle is conquered. That was a seriously difficult puzzle! One thought on painting - sanding before and after every coat makes a HUGE difference in how the paint adheres and in the finished product for me. Maybe you already do that. Just a thought.

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  2. We have never been to jump time. I'm always worried it will be so busy that my short kids will just get jumped on. Looks fun!

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