This weekend Brian started on a project in Finley’s room to transition it from baby room to big girl room. While we’re making the switch I decided that the brown walls needed to go and we needed something lighter and softer. You know, needed! We’ve loved the brown, but for such a small room with small windows it probably isn’t the greatest choice.

So, Brian literally worked all weekend putting up the board and batten wainscoting and painting the walls. The paint sprayer turned out to be his bestfriend and worst enemy. He had to do a gazillion thin coats in order to keep the paint from running. He even woke up at 5 am on monday to do one last coat so finley could be back in her room that day! The last few mornings when I go in to to get Finley the first thing she says is, “it’s my new pink room! it’s so cute! thank you, daddy”. I couldn’t have said it better myself. THANK YOU, BABE!

He took these pictures at night, so it’s sort of hard to see the detail and the pink looks a little off (it’s not such a blue pink) but you get the idea. still have to paint her new door white…

and here we are at a fun little animal farm. we didn’t capture many great pictures because finley was a little under the weather.
Okay, now this was seriously entertaining! all the sudden these goats climbed up on these tables and posed. They stood perfectly still for a LONG time. They must be some sort of show goats that have been trained to pose for pictures or something.

and ps, spell check isn’t working.

I just sat down to upload some pictures from the last few weeks, but something went wrong and the pictures got lost. I can’t find them anywhere, and they automatically delete from my camera. I’ve made it this far in my pregnancy without shedding a single hormonal tear, but that’s all it took. There were some really cute ones!!! I’m hoping my computer savvy husband can work a miracle! So since those pics are gone, I thought I’d post a picture of one of our first home projects, and give my amazing husband a shout out!!
This area is in the hallway between the kitchen/dining room, finley’s room, and the stairway to the downstairs. It used to have upper cabinets and then just an empty space below. Naturally, the space below became an area where we piled up junk. It wasn’t working and it certainly wasn’t cute, so we put in some lower cabinets and upper shelving and now we have a space that is so amazing. Seriously, this little space has become a lifesaver. It has our computer, mail and bill organizer, decorating stuff, extra kitchen appliances, finley’s coloring stuff. you name it. and if we ever have a big party we can clear it off and use it as a buffet for serving since it’s right off the dining room. i love it and i LOVE my husband for improving our house one project at a time!

**i’m hoping this post will help brian feel extra loved and appreciated as he is on the last stretch of painting our upstairs and feeling a smidge “over” these projects.

i don’t really have anything interesting to say. i just thought i’d update you on our oh-so exciting afternoon.

And despite WWII going on outside, Finley is sleeping like a little angel. Is there anything sweeter than a sleeping baby?