Painting our house!

So we're done with phase one of our painting...woo woo! I didn't realize it took so long but I love the results. Jess did lots of the painting while the kids and I were in DC. (he's a nice guy that one!) And last weekend we did our living room. Who knew 14 foot ceilings would come back to bite us? Ha! Thanks to some friends, we were able to borrow a giant ladder and it wasn't a problem. ANYWAY..lots of people have asked to see the results so...here we go!

We initially thought we wanted orange for our focus wall in the front room....it's nice and lively right? Well, it was a bit too much--imagine a pumpkin patch....or home depot. So Jess with his heart full of love for a wife who changed her mind AFTER he'd done it...did it again. AND I LOVE the new color. It's called "powdered brick". It makes me smile. Now we just need to get some curtains and stuff on the wall and we're set! (anyone who has any sort of sense of what would look nice is WELCOME to help with that!)

AND HOORAY!!! I've always wanted a yellow kitchen and this yellow color was perfect! (It's called "bagel" but for real, that's a lame name...it's just "pretty yellow" to me)

Also, those are sunflowers on the table that we grew ourselves. We don't have anything pretty on the outside of our house (due to laziness and lack of funds) but Luke and I through some sunflower seeds from our bird feeder into a corner to see if they'd grow. They're taller then the boys so that's cool. We've had 4 vase-fuls of pretty sunflowers so far. Awesome and without much effort! I'm totally doing that again!

Next is the boys room...it's blue. They love it. They said they wanted an outerspace room....I'm not crafty at all, and am not sure how to go about this....so...if anyone has any ideas...we'd love to hear them!

Kade's main mode of transportation lately has been rolling around the ground....I don't really know how else to say it...he just rolls from room to room some days....ha! he's silly.
Here's a shot of our orange wall before we painted over it. We painted the other 3 walls and the hall tan (or "Arabian sands") and now are just deciding on our bedroom. I know Jess is WAY done with painting..but I can't wait to do the rest of the house! Woo Woo!

Summer Hair Cuts!

The boys just got their summer haircuts--i.e. buzz cut! (not too different from every other hair cut we give them...) Jess decided to teach the boys how to buzz each others heads. They loved it, but not as much as the spray down they got before they came in the house. (Jess just hosed them down...they were running all over the place--nude as nude can be---just laughing.) We'll probably make it a tradition...great entertainment!

Jess sent them in the house with Mohawks...telling me they were done. Not a big fan of those--faux hawks yes..but I was relieved when they went back for more. I love Luke's focus in this pic.

Incidentally---I LOVE OUR BUZZER. We got one with a little vacuum that just sucks the hair right on in so it doesn't fall on the ground. For trims we do them in the house--heck we could have done this in the house too but would have missed out on all the fun!

So...I know other people have entire blogs dedicated to the things they make and are crafty with....I am not crafty at all! But I was proud of these aprons I made for one of my friends getting married. That's all....I just liked them. (seriously, they're reversible...cool right?)