Painting the interior of our new home

I started painting the downstairs during Christmas break last year and finished up over the summer.  It took many hours especially with all of the different colors that we used.  I am happy with the results!  I do still have some minor touch up's to do on the ceilings.

We bought most of the paint at Home Depot

Allie chose the colors and the color the chalk board paint for her room

here I was testing the red in the kitchen

The breakfast nook was almost done here

Here the breakfast nook is completed

Kitchen cabinet area completed.  The beams were the hardest part and keeping the three colors separate, yikes

view of the kitchen from the front entryway hallway

Kaylee chose BRIGHT colors for her Tween room

Bye, bye summer 2013

We had a great summer.  But it is over, and now we are back to school, rain, back to work, and back to busy schedules.

Here I will highlight some of the things we did this summer. We took a couple of trips to the beach, played in the sand and ate at Mo's.  We camped at the beach and near lakes in our new tent trailer.  For Sports, Allie tried out swim team and loved it!  Kaylee will join her next year, she was hesitant this year and by the middle of the summer she wanted to join.  The girls did gymnastics in June and July and we took August off from All sports.  We did go to Family camp at Triangle Lake in August and Kaylee went to Tadmor with her friend Sam.   I spent most of the summer organizing, cleaning, canning and preparing and cleaning up after the camping trips and summer fun.  OH and most importantly, Allie accepted Jesus at church soccer camp in August, and was baptized a couple weeks later at the park when we had "church at the park."