Kleinlife builds a house: stage of paint

We're finally painting... Which means we are neck deep in the stages paint color acceptance:

1. I have chosen the perfect color swatch!

2. I have calculated how many square feet I need!

3. Paint purchased!

4. Gather supplies

5. Look for supplies I'm missing

6. Eat a cookie

7. Find missing supplies

8. Yay! Time to start painting

9. Remember I forgot something

10. Find supply I forgot.

11. Start cutting in

12. Freak out about how the color looks

13. Keep working on cutting in 

14. Get paint on ceiling

15. Swear

16. Repeat 14-15

17. Really freak out about color

18. Decide to start rolling

19. Continue freak out

20. Realize you have 5 gallons of potentially ugly paint

21. Keep going

22. Think maybe color is okay

23. Nope it's awful... You wasted an entire day on this stupid color

24. Keep going

25. Start thinking it looks okay

26. Almost done

27. Wow. This is the best color ever. I am such a good color picker!

28. Repeat for every room in the house

Hello? Pick up please.

Ah. Parents.  People that have cell phones but apparently find it unnecessary to use them.

ANSWER YOUR TEXT MESSAGES.  NOW.

Kleinlife builds a house: update!

So...I guess it's been a while since we did a house update....

In the past few weeks we have the lot graded, all the concrete work done, the drywall installed, and with a few minor touch ups ready for paint, the sub floor sanded (remember the 12 inches of rain we got without a roof last summer), and the septic system installed.

I dumped all the photos off my phone last week so all I have to show you are these pics of the driveway and front steps I took last night.

So we are practically done.  Only 1,300 things left to do....

sigh. still waiting for the magical house building fairies to show up and finish while we sleep....

kleinlife: camp bode

We celebrated Bode's big day a few days early.

Halloween: the cat's meow

Cora insisted on being a kitty again for Halloween this year...which of course made Bode a mouse...

sorry, too late to mess with rotating images. :)