Sneak Peek

So, it's official. Our life is consumed with working on our new house (and by "new" I mean new to us - the house was built in 1925). It's pretty much all we do anymore. We're making good progress, though, and we spent the whole weekend painting - which makes it seem like we're actually getting somewhere. It's amazing how you can spend a week fixing things without feeling like there's any impact, but the minute you put paint on a wall, it suddenly feels like everything's coming together. I think I said something along the lines of, "Wow, this actually feels like a house now!" at some point on Saturday. We're not completely done with the painting yet, but should be by tomorrow. Then on to the floors!

Now, there will be pictures, as promised, but there might not be very many action shots because Josh did the unthinkable and lent our ONLY memory card for the camera to someone. See, the junior high and high school youth groups got together this weekend and served a dinner to their parents at the church. Now, this is all fine and great, except that they did a slideshow, and Josh had taken some pictures of the junior high kids, and then he lent the memory card to the high school youth group leader so the photos coudl be added to the slideshow. And then the high school leader forgot to give the card back on Friday. And then he forgot on Saturday. And then again on Sunday. I'm hoping he doesn't forget tonight, too (Josh has already made a reminder call), because I would be reeeaaally unhappy then (which I think Josh realizes). So, we've sadly missed some before shots, and some great in-progress shots, but hopefully we'll still have enough to show most of the before/after changes and the dramatic differences between the two.

In the meantime, I thought I'd give you a little preview of our paint colors. The guy helping us at Lowe's described them as "very festive". My mom did a, "You're painting your bedroom what?!" And a few people went, "Wow, that's really, uh, bright." But we've made our choices and we're sticking with them. So, I'll leave you guessing which rooms will be painted which colors - though if you want to try and match them, we're painting the living room, dining room, hallway, master bedroom, guest bedroom, and study (and fyi, the kitchen is already blue - we're saving that project for later). I also simply scanned the color swatches, so these aren't very accurate, but it'll just have to do. If you want to look up the official colors, you can visit Olympic's site and put the names into the search bar. Until the final reveal, welcome to our theme of:

Go Bold... or Go Buy Your Own House