Birdy birdy in the garage...

When Abell left for school friday morning, he left the garage door open. A couple of robins decided that our garage door opener was prime real estate and laid claim! One worked very hard at building a nest pretty much all day. While the other looked on while perched here and there.
So guess what we did?

We hurried and got all the boys ready for school, and then sat quietly on the stairs watching the birds work.

Then when we decided we might be too happy and loud and might scare them away. The kids all decided to watch from the front window.

It was pretty fun to watch the robin make the nest. We even had decided that we would try and make our garage as comfortable as possible for them, hoping they would stay. (dealing with the mess and hassle of it, so we could watch the process of the baby birds.) But for some reason after some heartfelt prayers from the robins, they decided our garage was not the best spot to pick. It was fun while it lasted though.

(BTW, we did have three extra kids for the night!)

The big unveil, minus any and all frills.

It's kinda hard to see the color in this picture, but the blue is there.
This picture is easier to see it. Don't you love the FAMILY pictures. They were my souvenir from Charlseton, South Carolina. (Man I love that place and I really really want to move there!) I am so excited to find frames to put them in!

Enamelware blue

Can you see the glorious white ceiling? Yup, I painted them all by myself!

This is probably the best example of the blue. You can see the white wall I painted above the plant shelf. I had to crawl along the 18 inch wide plant shelf to get the wall painted. NOT MUCH FUN!

This is the green in the front room. I really like it a lot!

The blue dining area. There will be wainscoting here shortly.

Well, the house painting is about 75 percent done. I have all the big areas done. I still need to go through and repaint the trim, caulk, hang wangscotting, hang lots of moulding, paint the laundry room, two bathrooms, master bedroom, one more bedroom and my closet. Yup... that will do....

Oh, and shop for fun, cottage/beach house/vintage decorations.

Good Times.

And to the blogs I read that said finding bamboo shades was really easy and really inexpensive. I have one word for you..... LIARS!

Excuses Excuses Excuses

I seriously can't believe it has been nearly a month since my last post.

I don't even know where to start to explain what in the heck we have been up to except....

Adam is traveling for work ALL THE TIME!!!

Kids in school.

Hagen's soccer four nights a week.

Yard work.

Adam gone.

Me trying to decide what color to paint the house.

Me trying to find the time to paint the house.

Deciding on Friday to have a yard sale on Saturday (thanks for talking me into it Julianne).

Emptying our entire storage room into the game room to find junk to sell at said yard sale.

Needing to put non junk (well, really still is junk, I just don't want to sell it) back into said storage room. ON THE SHELVES NOT ON THE FLOOR!

Going on a super fun trip to the south to visit missing husband.

Coming off a total high after being with missing husband.

Prep work for painting house.

Renting scaffolding for painting the ceiling. (Yes, I did say ceiling.) And also for painting the super high vaulted walls.

Scaffolding not fitting into Excursion (Even though they said it would).

Having to rent a trailer for scaffolding (Gee, they had it right there ready for me! Hhhmmm)

Towing trailer (with rented scaffolding) for the first time ever. SSCCAAARRRYYY

Unloading very heavy scaffolding.

Setting up scaffolding. (Thanks Julianne)

Renting too much scaffolding.

Returning extra scaffolding with trailer. (Thanks for the refund!)

Getting all set up to paint the ceiling.

Hearing song on radio that missing husband sang in the car during one of the long drives.

Having a total melt down.

Downloading song onto iPod.

Getting the courage to CLIMB ON THE SCAFFOLDING!!!

Getting the courage to STAND on the scaffolding.

Getting the courage to STAND on the scaffolding while painting ABOVE MY HEAD!

Turning up the iPod really loud so I don't hear the noises from the scaffolding I am standing on.

Touching my head to the wet paint SEVEN TIMES.

Combing through my wet hair with a fine tooth comb trying to get paint out of it.

Now on to the second coat of paint.

Not as nervous to be on the scaffolding.

Moving it around better.

Only touching my head in the wet paint THREE times on the second coat.

Still have to comb it out with a fine tooth comb.

Not daring to flat iron my hair in case there is paint I can't see.

Getting up the courage to paint my kitchen, great room, hallway and entryway "Enamelware".

Asking missing husband if I am crazy to paint my house blue?

Him calling me back to tell me he just saw a commercial with a blue painted house and it looked great.

Missing missing husband too much.

Not a very good excuse for not blogging, but it's the best I could come up with.

Wish me luck!

**I left my camera with missing husband so he could take some pics of some really cool brick I saw before I left to come home. But I will post pictures as soon as I can.

***And yes, I know there are people I can hire to do this type of labor. But where would the fun be in that?