We're really getting somewhere!

Today we got Liam's room painted, and Sariah's room is almost done. The Sister Missionaries came over and helped this morning! They were very helpful! Sister Champion helped Amanda paint Liam's room. And Sister Goddard helped me do chalk lines and tape Sariah's wall for Stripes. Then, the sisters and amanda helped paint the stripes. I think it looks really cute! The Sisters had to go, they had other appointments today. After they left, Sariah and her friend M. did the splatter wall. They had a GREAT time! Mom was going a bit crazy! I had to clean up some paint spots clear across the room! I'm not so sure about it, but Sariah and her friend had fun and with paint in their hair and on their faces... they felt proud of their accomplishments. Everyone likes it a lot and thinks it's really cool that I let her do a splattered paint wall. One of our friends said, how often do you get to throw paint at a wall?!

While we painted, Bill and his dad worked on the front entryway. Taping and mudding takes a lot of time! Then they went to pick up the carpet for Liam's room. Bill decided that I needed a picture (since I'm usually the one behind the camera...), and I've been taking all these pic's of everyone else durring this big project and putting them in my blog... so, here is a picture of me, working in Liam's room.

Amanda and I painted Liam's door, the guys rigged it up in the garage, so it was upright, and hanging so we could get to both sides. Liam played in the garage (he found the packing peanuts...), in the driveway and the front yard. How did he know the hose was back behind the bushes?!? and HOW come he knows you should try to turn the knob to turn it on?!?!?!?! Yikes! Then he kept riding his little tractor/cart down the driveway and out into the street, so we parked grandpa's van across the end of the driveway. He went around the back end in the gap that was left. So I pulled the big garbage can over to fill that gap. Instead of riding the tractor cart, he just ran around the van and into the street! So he got in trouble and was told to put his nose on the wall, (that's our current attempt to discipline him so he understands he needs to stop what he's doing...) or the tree (hey, you use what is handy!)

The kids were enjoying the wonderful spring weather, pulling each other around in the wagon, and drawing with sidewalk chalk. They traced around eachother, and traced each other's shadows...

I went across the street to my neighbors house to take a few pic's of the beautiful spring blossoms in full bloom on her trees. I have ugly trees in my front yard, and the one tree like this in my backyard isn't quite as full, so... I borrowed her tree for my pictures. It's the one I notice daily out my front door.