it's been a while...

apologies to my mom, who is the only one who reads this. A lot has happened since the last post.

The juicy story I was going to tell you? Oh a crazy lady down the street tried (quite sucessfully I might add) to dognap my little Cooper. We got him back but now the poor guy no longer has free reign of the neighborhood. Oh well. Her quote to me the other day when I saw her? "He knows where mama lives." You little.....

In other news I have got a lot done in the house. Where our living/dining room walls used to look like this:

It now looks like this:

The whole process took about 3 days-spraying, stripping, washing, rinsing, and painting. I am very happy with the outcome. I painted it with Desert Fortress from Valspar.

I have since moved onto the hallway which looked like this:

It is currently in a state of mostly stripped but not washed. I also recently did the stair treads dark brown, much better than the nasty white. Bert says it shows more dog hair, which it does, but looks 100 times better and classier.

We also recently picked out colors for the exterior of the house at Sherwin Williams. We happened to be showing up one of the 2 days they had 40% off all paint! So we ended up purchasing and saving about $150. Life around here is all about what we can do while saving money!