Hello Again

Holy cow! Has it seriously been a year since I last posted? I can't believe it! I am sorry, friends, for letting so much time go by.

Lately, D and I have been busy working on the house. We are having a July 4th party tomorrow (oh how I wish all of my out-of-town ladies could be there too!), and the original plan was to try and have most of the work done by then so that we could show off to our friends and family.

Unfortunately, the showing off part has not worked out exactly as planned. We have now painted the living room for the THIRD time, and we admitted to each other today that neither one of us likes it! We started off with what we thought was a pretty blue color but, once applied to the wall, turned out to be a definite lavender. Then we tried a robin's egg blue. The color was true to it's name - it just looked horrible on the wall (imagine pepto bismal, only blue). Now we have painted everything what we hoped would be a sunny yellow. It's pretty, but just too bright. It looks like some sort of crazy dessert. Who knew that re-decorating was this hard?

Fortunately, some of our other attempts at improvements have worked out better. We re-painted and re-decorated the master bathroom, and I think it looks really cute. It must be easier to do a smaller space? We also got a wooden fence installed in the backyard, which has given us much more privacy from the road and made us more comfortable leaving Oz outside. D and his dad have also been working really hard on the yard, and it looks so pretty and neat. I love it!

Well, I hope all of you have a wonderful July Fourth! If you come to my house, please do your best to ignore the crazy yellow living room.