Thursday, February 21, 2008

Whim

Al went to pick up our new camper Saturday a.m. early!!! Yay!! I can't wait to camp; I wish this 15 below would stop already!! Anyway, he convinced our neighbor to ride along with him so he didn't have to go by himself and I didn't have to go with him!! Yay again!!! I was not looking forward to taking 3 children 2 hours in the truck (close quarters) and stopping for 1/2 hour then riding 2 hours again!! Especially when we had talked about Grandma's house all week!!!

Here are a couple of pics of the inside!



We even get a toilet!

Since my neighbor was keeping Al company on the drive, his wife, Janet, who I believe was joking at the time, says to me, "So Stacey, what should we paint in your house while the guys are gone?" Little did she know that I had been thinking about this for a year or more and that I make decisions better under pressure! Needless to say...I went uptown to the lumber yard with 30 minutes to spare and bought paint!!! I was only going to start with one wall....You know how things go, you've got great help and things are going well, you are excited, etc. I actually called the guy at the lumber yard and asked him to go back up and make me another gallon later that day and we painted the entire living room/dining room! We painted a while in the afternoon, then stopped and went to my parents for supper and a slide show of baby Stacey (fun, fun, thanks mom and dad!) and then came home and painted from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.Wow!!! When I finally got up around 9 a.m. Al and I looked at it and talked some more and then decided to change 1 wall's color so Janet came back over and we painted more and then rearranged the whole room!!



Boy what a difference a little paint and changing things up can do!! (Since we changed, I actually ran out of paint again and so behind the computer desk still needs painting, but the rest of the room is awesome!) My house had been the same color, Angel Hair (fancy name for off-white), the whole time we had lived here, about 10 years!! It deserved a change. And I LOVE it!!
So, that's what a great neighbor and a whim can do for you!! Thanks Janet!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Job welll done! Love the color!!! Can't wait to see the arrangement.

The camper looks a lot like ours!

Told you I'd be checking the sandbox on a regular basis.

Webkinz's usernames -
Holbrook - HCSTKD (pets name Paris and Sophie)
Tanyon - duprii (pets name Max and Alpha)
Jex - krasen (pets name Ninja)

See you Sunday!
the Schutjers

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