your input is needed

Could someone give me advice on the color of my powder room?

We are running low on funds, so I am trying to cut corners while still making the place look nice!

Here is my dilemma:
I bought 3 gallons of Valspar Lyndhurst Castle Sand for the living room and only used just over one. I LOVE the color and am thinking about putting it in the powder room too, since i have so much and haven't bought the Behr Fountain Spout yet(which I also love) Is it a faux pas to have two rooms on the same floor painted the same color? I was even thinking of doing the same flooring in the powder room as well. Maybe I am over thinking it?

almost in

We move in in 2 DAYS!!! Very excited and overwhelmed. I am almost finished packing, running a little low on boxes when I thought we had too many!

We still have to paint the kitchen, powder room...hallway upstairs and entryway, but those things can even be done when we move in. I changed some of the colors from my earlier post: Living room is Valspar's Lyndhurst Castle Sand. Kitchen is Olympic color match to valspars: morning sunrise. Olympic makes zero voc paint, thats why i chose it!

I need to lose some extra pounds here, about 12 to be at a comfortable weight where i can actually fit into my clothes instead of pry myself into them. It's still not my pre-pregnancy weight from before Asa, but it's a fine weight. I hate the changes that happened to my body from pregnancy. It's so irritating to see people survive pregnancy and childbirth virtually unscathed. I did not get those genes. I don't want to make it overly important to me but it does upset me, some days more than others. Even if I can't make myself look good underneath, I can shed some extra weight and get in shape. It's so hard to find the time to exercise these days. This is a crazy time of life, i know, sometimes i just want to go drive somewhere and hide. I am a wimp. Things will be easier when we are moved in and settled--I hope. It will be nice to be closer to friends and family.

I got another bug bite last week. A large ring formed around it and I went to the doctors. She is treating me for Lyme's again. The first blood test they did came back negative though(like last time). They are also testing me for different kinds of Arthritis. I have MUCH joint pain.

Evie and Asa are doing well. Evie just pukes a lot, all over me(like just now) and Asa is really into calling me names. If I never get called a "punk", it'll be too soon. Today he was being very rude to me so I told him I didn't want to talk to him anymore. He got very upset and kept saying, "Please forgive me Mom!!" I said, "You don't even know what that means!" and he said "Yes i DO!". I said, "Well how come you don't change whenever you say you are sorry and ask for forgiveness?" He said "I will be a good boy!" I said, "How?" "I will change my heart!" I thought that was pretty cute!!!

I scrubbed his rug in his room yesterday, but am pretty sure the stains which I couldn't get out will be the cause of the loss of some of our security deposit. Oh well!!!!!

I will post some new pics of the progress at the house when they get emailed to me! My camera is not flashing twice, so all the pics come out black...:( I have to read the owners manual, which is somewhere in box stacked in a pile of major confusion.

PRAY FOR ME. Sometimes I don't think I'll survive the day.Wow this post title should be titled: Crybaby!!!!

paint colors

I have chosen some paint colors:

Living Room:
Behr Contemplation
Behr Pinedale Shores

Kitchen:
Ralph Lauren Lafayette

Powder Room:
Behr Fountain Spout

Master Bedroom:
Behr April Mist
Behr Lion

Boy's Room:
Behr Carribean Coast

Evie's Room:
Behr Pink Amour

Upstairs Bath:
Behr Aqua Smoke

and now it's gone..

I feel so guilty for not keeping up my blog. Where do I start?! We bought the house. Settlement was easy and fairly quick. We started cleaning up the house the next day, all the carpets were ripped out and we began TSP-ing the walls. I love the house, despite all the work that still needs to be done! After only a week of trying to clean her up we accomplished tearing out all the rugs and staples and cleaning 80% of the walls and ceilings. Then came vacation on August 23. We had a great week at the beach. Great weather even when poor weather had been for casted! Evie had a great time and loved the beach! She was so good all week. Asa had a hard time because his eczema flared up terribly and caused him to be irritable, I felt so bad for him. In fact, next year we are going to break our 6-year streak of beach going because of how Asa reacts to the sun, sand and salt water :(.


On the third night of being there we went out on the beach at around dusk. My brother Andrew and Dad and brother Ben were all fishing. I was watching them when all of the sudden far out over the water appeared this bright cluster of star-like lights--maybe 10 of them. They didn't move and didn't fade for 15 seconds or so. It was bizarre! They vanished just as quickly as they appeared. I ran to everyone around me asking them if they had seen it. Most had, and then it happened again, just slightly to the south. WEIRD! We were thinking it could have been an emergency flare. Unfortunately after the second set of light disappeared we pulled the camera out and they never came back. A while afterwards we saw the coast guard fly out to where we saw the lights. They hovered there for a while and then kept going.
In the midst of all of that Andrew caught a shark! It was amazing to see! It was about 3.5 feet long over 20lbs in weight. I got a bunch of pictures. A cool experience!

So vacation was great, and we got home and started working on the house again. We picked up the flooring, all 6000 lbs of it. It looks beautiful, I can't wait till it's all laid out.Mark's parents have been working at the house a lot, replacing floor boards, cleaning and spackling. All we have left to do is, finish cleaning the kitchen ceiling and walls, and the upstairs bath as well. Some more wall paper needs to come out of the eating area and Evie's room(quite a chore). Tonight we are going to start painting the ceilings upstairs, because we have to start the floors this Saturday! I think we are also going purchase the appliances for the kitchen!

Asa turned 3 on August 12th. We took him to Chuck E Cheese with his brother and cousin, grandparents, and some uncles :) I took all of the pictures on his grandma's camera so I haven't gotten them yet.
I have a sore throat again, very strange and Evie and Asa have colds!
Tyler turns 8 today! We will have to have a party for him this weekend.
Lots of pics for you!: Living room

the summer is flying by...

real quick:
Mark turned 31 over a week ago.
We visited with family from Canada last weekend.
Our 4th anniversary is tomorrow!
Evie has been using the walker - but basically just to play with the toys on it's tray!
Asa is fully potty trained!
We make settlement in just over 2 weeks!
We received a free washer and dryer!
Tyler is super tan.
I still can't get anything done around here...although--
Scrabulous was deleted - I'm waiting on the new Scrabble application to work right!
...time to watch Lost--nevermind it's too embarressing of a movie to mention!

so much is happening...

A lot has been going on around here lately. Sometimes its good to be busy, other time there can be too much happening at once. I wish I could blog more. We do a lot of fun things as a family, and I take a lot of pictures. I don't post them all because it feels too late. Evie has been good. Asa's been slightly sick, but happy. The weather hasn't been great. Life is so fragile. Someone is always sick or hurt or dying. I like to think about all the "what if's" in these situations, but it doesn't matter what if, because things are supposed to happen this way in life. Maybe to teach us how to deal better for situations to come or maybe just to make us feel less comfortable in our temporary location: earth. Somewhere is these packages of sadness, is joy, although a lot of the times it seems hidden--especially lately.

Mark is going to see the new house tonight. The inspector is coming and will go over everything with him. I asked him to take pictures and do some measuring.

The house is 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. It's got a finished walk-out basement and backs up to an open field and beyond that, woods. It needs a lot of work as the owners were extremely heavy smokers. We're going to take about a month and half to fix it up, new floors, new appliances (hopefully new cabinets) new bathroom sinks, bathtub and shower...lighting.. new paint throughout. It'll be a lot of work but we are blessed with many people having offered their services. I absolutely love the location of the townhome and am so thankful it opened up and we were able to get it.

We had a carribbean party for my mom's 50th last saturday. It went really well and was really pretty! I had the task of bringing exotic fruits...yum. Although as we were leaving things went awry: Asa scratched his eye with sand and it was horrible looking, Tyler was throwing up and Evie was crying for food. I was so tired and stressed when we finally got into the car. All I could think about was how I had nursery the next morning and how tired I would be. BUT all the kids fell asleep on the way home and we were able to go to sleep early and wake up on time for church! WOO HOO!

FINALLY!

Our offer was accepted on the townhouse we wanted! Praise God. It's been a long haul, but I think the first phase of relocating is over! We'll end up being here until probably the end of september--to give us time to fix up the house. More to come...