Not THREE......
....but FOUR!
Yep, that's right....FOUR painted sides to our house!!!!
Hallelujah! I was beginning to think I was forever going to have the lovely green on the front, and peeling beige on the sides & back house for the rest of my days. After MUCH insistence on my part, my extremely picky DH (who thinks no one can paint as perfectly as he can) finally found some painters who were up to the task of grinding (to the bare wood), priming, caulking, glazing windows and top coating to DH's high (make that HIGH) expectations. We are very pleased with their work & so happy to finally have it done that I have actually convinced him to hire them to finish the interior painting (which is "only" trim).....but that includes taking down and sanding 8 doors, as well as picture molding, 10" baseboards, 12 windows with 6" molding & all those corresponding door frames. It never gets done by us because he is so busy restoring his clients' homes & making them lovely....while ours just sits here waiting for the love. Oh well....you know how it is with the cobbler's kids & their lack of shoes :-)
We've also been busily cleaning out & purging....starting with the girls room......too many toys! So we took everything out of the toy closet, under the beds & all around the room. We managed to fill the entire full-size Tundra truckbed with goodies for Goodwill. Can you imagine? Yeesh. Now the only thing on the floor is furniture feet.....this has been for 10 days now!
Breaking news! Anna's hair seems to be growing! And SHE is growing too. We measured her just a few days ago & she was the same height as she was on 12/8/07....but today she was over 1/2" taller than a week ago! As she says...." I'm NOT a baby! I'm a big girl!!" She gets extremely annoyed with being referred to as anything smallish....and will burst into uncontrollable tears in an instant if she feel insulted. Too cute.
Oh! This is in our town right now! It is very exciting and we hope to be able to see the final result on Friday. The house is only a few miles from us.....1100 square feet, 3 br, ONE bath for 8 people! They whisked the family of 8 off to the SuperBowl for the week & they'll come home to a new 3500 sq ft house with full furnishings, etc. Can't wait! Go Ty!
More later on that subject, hopefully with pics of Ty & the new house, etc. Isn't it amazing that they can bulldoze a house....have the foundation poured at 6 a.m. and the framing done by 7 p.m.? wow.
