Summer Project

This summer we have two big projects: girls' bedroom and our backyard. We are almost finished with the girls' bedroom. Their old room was messy, crowded, and blue. The girls share a larger room, but their bunkbeds were very bulky and the color was meant more for a boy. We allowed them to pick out their own colors. Taylor choose neon green and Kala selected purple. I was a bit hesitant at first for the combo, but I am quite happy with the outcome. Eric was wonderful and painted the room as fast as he could. The girls helped a little bit, but even I started to get a headache being around the paint fumes for too long. Here's a rundown of the project:

3 days of painting (including priming which is annoying!)
6 cans of paint
2 weeks of searching for the correct color of purple for the sheets (I found the green but NO PURPLE!) and approximately 10
stores and numerous online searches
2 new closet organizers
2 nights sleeping in the living room while we finished their room
6 new shelves


This room isn't 100% finished. I still need to do the window treatments (WHICH I HATE!) and we are waiting for the new wall decorations to arrive. Taylor will have a trumpet and music notes and a large "T" for her wall. Mahkala will have a large "M" for above her bed. We are still searching for gymnastics pics. They are also super excited and anxious because we promised them our flatscreen TV once we buy ourselves a larger one (Eric's wish). We are going to mount that on the wall across from their bed and set up the Wii, but that is probably a month out. As for the backyard-it's still a work in progress. So no pics of that right now. It's about halfway done. We left all the really expensive stuff for last (concrete, patio, hot tub, etc).