We had our primer tinted with the same red we finished the kitchen in. It was worse than Barbie pink, but it really helped eliminate tons of extra coats of red paint.
Nate got stuck with the fun job of detailing, trim and high spots! He did Awesome! I just wasn't patient enough to stick with the hard stuff, I did good to roll the walls! Thank you, Honey!
Our Green wall! We really like how this accent wall turned out....it really warmed up the red kitchen!
We did the rest of the house in Tan or Sand or as Nate and my Parents call it "dirt brown," but I rather call it sand or tan. It really warmed up the rest of our house and defined all the different living area. I guess our house looks more like a warm cozy house instead of a long white boring rectangular box.
Corbin was insistent on a red room for his and Aidan' s bedroom. Since I thought it was probably to much red to do his whole room, I came up with this idea. We measured off a invisible wide stripe on their walls and took cups of 2 different sizes and dipped them in paint and made these circles. I saw the idea on a home decorating show on t.v. it's suppose to look like it could be wall paper, only they did the whole wall in interlocking circles. I just made it a bolder pattern, kind of went by the seat of my pants and tried it. After we fixed all the drips from the runny red paint, I think it turned out alright. Corbin is happy about it even though he did try and get us to make a big red stripe to go with the circles. We've talked him out of it for now. Aidan was just excited for the change in scenery in his room!
Anyway.....Corbin and Aidan spent a week up with Grandpa and Grandma Haws while Nate and I attempted to paint our house. We got most of it done and we are pleased with the results! We painted the Kitchen(red), dinning area(green), family room, boys room, hall, and their bathroom(tan). It has really made the house seem warmer and not so much like the model home that was the same floor plan.
We went up and spent the weekend celebrating Peach Days with my family and picked up the boys. They had a wonderful, great time playing and being spoiled rotten all week! I wasn't sure they would want to come home. I was also glad to hear what good boys Corbin and Aidan had been all week! I missed them like crazy! I was happy they were visiting my parents and having such a good time with Grandma and Grandpa and Uncles, Aunts and Cousins! It is just hard for me as their Mom to be away from them that long and not get to see all the fun and cute things they were doing.
We went up and spent the weekend celebrating Peach Days with my family and picked up the boys. They had a wonderful, great time playing and being spoiled rotten all week! I wasn't sure they would want to come home. I was also glad to hear what good boys Corbin and Aidan had been all week! I missed them like crazy! I was happy they were visiting my parents and having such a good time with Grandma and Grandpa and Uncles, Aunts and Cousins! It is just hard for me as their Mom to be away from them that long and not get to see all the fun and cute things they were doing.
Corbin is all siked up for his first day of Tumbling Class! He is rocking with his air guitar. He wanted to do silly things in his pictures so we just went with it! I've been so happy to watch him try something new and am glad he is succeeding at it and enjoying it so much!
Corbin in the middle of a somersault on the air mat. He loves to show off! Sorry the lighting was terrible 'cause they were right in front of this nice sunny window and Aidan was sitting on my lap not budging for anything so I couldn't get closer. Aidan had had a serious melt down in the daycare at the Rec center where we go to Tumbling and wasn't letting me out of his sight. I thought he'd like to go play with some toys and the kids since he didn't exactly like having to sit with Mom and watch Brother last time we went to Tumbling. He had wanted to either join in the Tumbling or run around anywhere he could escape. It turned into Fit Throwing 101 with Aidan as the Instructor when I wouldn't let him.
Luckily they loved their "new" room when we came home. Corbin started Tumbling, Monday after we returned home and he loves it! He is a natural and has been trying out his stunts way before we started the tumbling class. His "no fear of anything" and "let me see if I can do that too" attitude and his stunts is what inspired looking for a Tumbling class in the first place. We figured we should teach him how to do things the right way and how to keep himself safe and protected as he does somersaults and flips on the trampoline and where ever it is convenient for him. He is in the "Tiny Tumblers" class, perfect for the fact that all six kids are 4 year olds and very tiny and seem to have minds of their own when it comes to doing tricks! I was glad to see there were 4 boys(counting Corbin) in the class and not only girls. Since we had such a hard time finding any reasonable Preschools out here this is sort of taking it's place, and I'm working on academics with Corbin at home.
Aidan discovered or figured out how to get out of the play-n-pack(this is were he slept) at Grandma's house. After he did it once he turned into a Master at it and got out anytime he pleased day or night! Well, when we got home he decided to try the same routine on his crib and soon discovered he could scale the crib wall with little problem too! So after several days of having a frequent visitor thru out the night, we decided to change his bed down to the daybed. He is still a frequent visitor and has become our early, early morning wake-up call. He is proud as punch to have this new independence, and absolutely loves his "new big boy bed"! We are just glad that neither Corbin or Aidan has had a bad fall from the top of their Crib walls, since they have both been good climbers since their toddler days! We have since fallen back into the routine of laying on the floor in their room to keep them both in bed(now mostly Aidan) until they finally quit yakking and giggling at each other and have dozed off to sleep. Well I'm sure I'm not the only Mom that has had to do that, right? It's just part of the job of Mom. I can't say I mind too much, I get a much needed break and a little rest too! Mostly it's just fun to hear those cute little Boys of mine yakking back and forth and doing silly things! Corbin is usually asking lots of questions to me and telling Aidan to "Go to Sleep, Aidan! Right Now!, or You're going to go to times-out!" or "That's Enough Aidan! It's time to go to sleep!" " I'm trying to sleep, Aidan.....Be Quiet!" Aidan just laughs at him and makes funny noises just to keep Corbin going! Anyway that's about all we've been up to lately. It doesn't sound like a lot but it sure has keep us busy and that's probably a good thing!
2 comments:
The paint job looks great!! That is a lot of work. Jason and I were never that ambitous with our house. I always wanted to but could never decide on a color. I will with our next house, whenever that day comes!!
I love your paint! I bet it looks awesome! We need to come see it... good excuse for a vacation right? Really though... It looks awesome!
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