What a stressful project

The day started out good. I decided to paint Kyle's room. I got more than I bargained for:


I don't have any pictures of the awful streaks that ended up because of the red. I was so stressed out. I thought that it would look that way forever. I should have taken pictures so you would know how bad it was. Anyway, I did about 3 coats of red and the streaks were still there. I decided to sleep on it and figure something out in the morning. Well the next morning I went into Kyle's room hoping for some improvement to magically be there, but there was none to be found. I talked it over with Ray and we decided to buy a darker red. We rushed over to Home Depot, our home away from home, to buy the much needed paint. When we got home I started the necessary repainting. To my astonishment it turned out a whole lot better:





Wow the pictures don't look very good. Anyway, with that stress over I could now start on the blue on the bottom part of the wall. The blue went on better, but I still needed to do 2 coats. I was relieved the blue turned out. I was so stressed that it would be the same problem as the red turned out to be. But it looks good:

The finished product turned out to be what I had pictured:



The boy really liked his room, I took pictures of him bouncing on his bed, but they turned out bad. Well after the stressful three days I learned that I needed to do a tinted primer first, that would have been helpful to know before I started painting, and then do the red color. The lesson learned was no matter how much you want to paint your room a certain color, maybe even red, make sure you know what you are doing first before you start painting, otherwise it could end up a very stressful project. Just take a page out of my book. I have decided that I am never doing red again. I don't need the added stress.

Some yard

We now have trees!!!!! Yeah... If they don't blow away.

And of course here is the beginning of our wildlife house....

Hopefully the grass will soon come next.

Six Years

Here is the story of our Anniversary... A night to remember, our first night. We stayed at the Casa Blanca in Mesquite. We saw Ironman the first night to save the romantic comedy "Maid of Honor" for the actual anniversary day. Linsey loved Ironman... even more than Ray. This pic is taken from the gazebo in front where we were going to make out but people kept coming there too... I think for the same reason.

The next day we get up and go have breakfat at the great Denny's a block away. Then we didn't know what to do.... So we ended up experiencing something new and saw the Hoover Dam. Not as Fun as we thought.

And since going back through Vegas was the faster way back we went that way and of course had to check out the Belagio... the garden room was gorgeous with butterflies and flowers and, well you know how the water show is.....

The batteries died....
After that Linsey ate at her most favorite place in the world, Olive Garden, and we went back to Misquite and watched Maid of Honor and felt like we had seen it a hundred times.... Because we had with all the other movies just like it.

Just Like Christmas for Kyle

The night before his birthday no one was stirring, not even a mouse. All were asleep except Ray who prepared the great day....

Rachel wakes up around 7 AM. Linsey tells her to go back to bed. As we here her going potty, Megan starts crying. Rachel runs to her and says, "Wow". Linsey tells her that all this is for Kyles birthday and she needs to go back to bed. Linsey also returns to bed when all of a sudden you
here softly, "Kyle it's your birhday, come on." One minute later we here two happy giggling laughs...

Linsey and Ray spring out of bed afraid the presents have now been open without them. But no... the presents were still there and the balloons were played with all day....

When the song and cake came for a yummy breakfast treat. Before the song was over Rachel leaned foreward and did the job of blowing out the candles. So we lit them again and with the help of his dad, Kyle blew out the candles...

And Megan sat back and enjoyed it all....

Project Rachel's Room

Because of the stinkin' cold I am inside making things better. Here is the slave work my husband thinks I need to do. But really I wanted to. This one took a lot of thought and amazing design.... by me.

Here is the one that makes doing such projects hard... but at least someone is happy....

And here it is... tada. I am amazing..

Visitors

This weekend was Great!!! Thanks to Justin and Jenny and Tyler and Zoey. We very much enjoyed their company and help. Linsey's procedure went well... just a little pain but nothing that Valume, Oxycodin, IBProfin, and Lortab couldn't fix when taken all at once.

Anyway a great day at the best park in St. George. It was hot but not hot enough for any of the kids to get in the water. But Kyle did find balloons from someone else's party.

Then we all enjoyed delicious steaks and flew kites at home. Rachel let hers go and luckily a small tree caught it and kept it a float for easy recovery.

The ride home from St. George was a little long but the kids kept us entertained...

Tiger Morning

In the morning after breakfast cereal, we tell Rachel to go get dressed. As we are doing things in our bedroom, Rachel runs in with her shirt on her head and says "roar, I'm a lion, roar". And then we all start laughing. Now it happens about everyday and yes, we still laugh. It is a great day with a little laughter provided by a sweetie.




Wild tiger with a nice mane....