Last weekend we had my cousins, Kara, Kelly & Renae stay over a couple nights. They've been asking since before Thanksgiving when they could come again and we finally made it work! We had hoped that we could go play with the four-wheelers in the snow but since there was minmal snow and 17 degrees we decided to do fun stuff inside. We had a great weekend making valentine's cards, cupcakes, playing candy land-Wii-Bingo-Slapjack, and ordering pizza & watching a movie. It was a very relaxing weekend for all of us!
Decorating Cupcakes
It's always so fun to listen to the girls talk and it never seems to amaze me what questions come out of their mouths :)
By the end of the weekend we had a couple of very tired girls. Renae took a little snooze on Karl's shoulder on the way back to Sully on Sunday.
For Valentine's Day Karl and I went Ottumwa and went to Menards. That's it. ...Just kidding, we also went to the movie theatre and watched "The Vow". I would classify it as a chick flick but it's not a typical love story... It's a very good movie w/ great acting and you're just never quite sure what is going to happen next (very unpredictable). We would definately suggest it! Oh, and what's better for Valentine's Day Supper than movie theatre popcorn?! Yuuuuummmmy!!!!!! :)
Today we went to help Matt & Rach at their new house. They bought a house west of Sully, off the highway and down their own dead end lane. They have lots of little projects like: mudding cracks, texturizing, priming, painting, stripping wall paper, pulling out carpet, putting in new doors, new carpet, electrical and painting woodwork. As with all projects, they found more to do than what they originally thought but are getting a lot done! Below the boys were trying to figure out how to move a heat run from one side of the living room to the other. At one point, both Karl & Matt were in the crawl space together....all it takes is teamwork ;)
Rachel & her brother in law Mark (home for the weekend from student teaching in Denver) doing the painting & trim.
Leah stripping wallpaper from one of the bedroom closets. Whoever deicded to put strawberry decorative wallpaper on top of two other layers of wallpaper was out of the their mind!! Big job but got it done!
This picture was taken on their stairs. We got all the woodwork upstairs primed so that it can be painted white soon.
Karl helped out with some electrical jobs. He replaced a few outlets.
Sometimes it's nice to take a break and remember why you're doing all this work. Matt & Rachel have been living in a very small rental house since they got married (June, 2009). They were very excited to purchase this large home! Amongst all the paint, woodwork, chaos and mudding they have a dream, vision & most importantly eachother- which is all they need! You're house is looking great- keep it up! :)
