Walls & dots

I finished painting the whole living/dining room this week, and I'm really happy with it.

Before (I chose the color on the left):

After:

I redid the wall over the couch, too. Apparently, I'm in the mood for change. :)

And in this picture, you can see part of another little project....

I "polka dotted" a wall!

It's just gold paper and double-sided tape, so I can take them off if/when I want to. 

In fact, the tape is "removable" so some of the dots have been flying off the wall. I might have to redo it with stronger tape. But I like it!

I'm back

I know I've been a very bad blogger. I was sick with strep throat for a good 10 days, so that's partly to blame.

Once I started feeling better this week, I began painting the living/dining room. I never loved the yellow. I've finished a couple of walls and am about 1/3 done with the room. I love the new color! It's an almost-white grey (Irish Mist by Behr).

Here's a picture from last night:

and here it is today in the natural light:

You can see the old yellow on the wall I haven't gotten to yet here:

Fresh door

With the recent house repaint, I ignored the front door. There was a chance our contractor friend had a nice front door from another job we could have installed here, but it didn't work out. So today I painted the door.

Here's somewhat of a "before" picture:

and here it is today:

and last week I finally (FINALLY) got the interior of the front door from looking like this (latex paint peeling off from oil-based paint):

to looking like this:

So happy!

Hello

I looked on my phone to see what pictures I've taken in the past couple of weeks to post on here, and there were basically none!

Life has been going fine here. Jon and I have been working on painting the rest of the outside of the house after the front now looks so nice.

I bought these copper plumbing pieces at Home Depot and planted tiny succulents in them:

And, as if I haven't been painting enough, I decided finally to repaint the living room/dining room/entry area of the house. I never really loved the yellow and spent all of the past year trying to live with it. I'll get to the full repaint in a few weeks, probably, after I finish with a couple other projects.

Another hospital trip

On Monday after school, Lucy started complaining of an upset stomach. By that evening, she was throwing up. By Wednesday morning, we knew we had to take her to the hospital, because by now we recognize the signs of dehydration and her body's inability to cope.

In the ER:

After one day and one night of IV fluids and IV zofran (anti-nausea), she was doing much better:

And by Thursday afternoon, she was feeling great:

By that evening, she was begging to go home and putting on a dance show for me:

We got to go home Thursday around 7:00 p.m. This was our shortest hospital stay with Lucy (thank goodness), and we are thankful she recovered so quickly. The nurses at CHOC/Mission Hospital are so great!

A Virginia Christmas

We had such a nice trip!

Jon grew some antlers:

No trip is complete without wrestling with Uncle Greg:

A nice walk on Percival's Island:

Checking out a tree a beaver had been working on:

Lots of games of hide and seek:

House work

We recently decided to replace the old/rotten wood shingle siding on the front and side of our house with composite vertical siding. Using my birthday gift from Grandma and Nannie, we were able to get it done! We did the painting ourselves. It looks so great! Now if we could only get rid of that new vine-type plant the association planted. :)

BEFORE:

AFTER: