Our BUSY Weekend

Well here are our weekend plans. We are stimulating the economy this weekend as well as doing a lot of work. In our new house we will be renting, we are allowed to paint the rooms whatever colors we want to. I am so excited to live in a place where it wont look like an institution, where I will actually have color on the walls. We are going for all neutral colors though, very warm colors. We have a light brown in the front room, dining room and main bathroom. Then in the kitchen we are going with a light and dark green. In Isaac's room we are going with a jungle green since we will be doing a tiger theme in there, and putting up fake palm leaves and such. Then in the girls room we will be doing a purple for fairy's and flowers. I will be getting a white picket fence to put up against the wall to make it look like they are outdoors, and put flowers in it. I saw it in a magazine and it is really cute. Then in our bedroom I am not sure what color to do. We will see what we have leftover, or do it later. I have gotten new kitchen knobs for all the cabinets to match, and I am really excited for the finished product. I will post before and after pics here when we get it done. Then we have to buy a fridge, since it doesn't come with one, and we have to have that to pass inspection, then we are getting a portable dishwasher, a TV stand, rocker recliner, and small love seat since our large sofa will not, and I'm sad to say will not fit in this room. Anyway, we are hopefully going to have a nice looking house by the time it is all said and done. The kids are all ready to help paint, they each have their own roller, and I have PLENTY of drop cloths to protect the floors, and such. Each child will be let loose on their own walls, while being supervised. Hopefully they will be good, and not slop all over. We are doing this now, so that when they clean the carpets professionally, and do the housecleaning professionally we have already done the painting, and wont slop on clean carpets. Plus I don't want to have to contend with covering furniture either when we move in. It's just easier to do it now. So wish us luck on our long weekend, and hopefully we get it all done. We are not doing the upstairs, since Mom said she wanted to do that when she got out here, so we will let her do that. It will give her something to do, and make her feel good about it. I know we will help her, but she wants to do it, so I will let her. The kids are so excited for Grandma to come.